History has always been something that I thought we only studied but, through living, we have seen it come to life in vivid colors over the airwaves.  I didn’t live during the civil war, the two world wars, the depression or the big crash on wall street but today from the 1950s forward history has been occuring before my eyes.  The good, the bad and the ugly as people continue to forge, change, replace, and continue our living history, encyclopediaing it for the future as our forefathers have done for generations.  My history spans the presidencies of Eisenhower through Trump with both the political parties of my father and and my friends.  Today I hear many praise the same presidents that in my view are undeserving and lambasting those I see as real heros.  Of course this is the basics of the democratic society, as the pendulum of history swings from one party to the next.  Personal history seldom make the history books as individuals strive through the political atmosphere, using those aspects that help and complain about those that don’t benefit, yet cost hard earned dollars just the same.