If we don’t know and learn from our past, then we cannot succeed in the present. The study history, historical documents, and historical events and people in the times and context of their experiences is fundamental to critically understanding today’s world.

Using this information I’m able to apply that learning to present day problems of all types and offer guidance in addressing today’s issues to those who are interested. Couple that with years of world travel, learning from local cultures in a multitude of countries, applying scientific and engineering principals to thinking, and you get who I am today.

Of course, you have to add to this a 21 year career in the U.S. Navy working on nuclear submarines. The stories I could tell you about hunting other nation’s ships and submarines; about nuclear power plant and submarine disasters that will never be released to the public; the people and places we went including our ports of call; and you would be like my disbelieving brothers. What I did, saw, experienced cannot be imagined by those who weren’t there. Those life experiences are fundamental to my very core of being.