[Excellence]

I am up to chapter 11 of David Stockman's The Great Deformation. It is, among other things, a history book. After reading what I have read so far, I think we are already doomed to repeat history no matter how much we have "learned."

[TiaS]

When I moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, some years ago, I learned that nearly the entire New Mexico National Guard was lost in the Bataan Death March, an incident that still causes pain to families and friends in the area. During my years there, I met two of the survivors.