This is an I-Heart podcast.

Guaranteed Human.

This is our American stories, and we tell stories about everything here on this show.

And our favorite types of

stories in the end, well, they come from our listeners.

And this next story comes from one of our listeners, Richard Munez.

Today, he tells us two stories on living in history from the perspective of those who

experienced it and didn't even know it at the time.

Here's our own Monty Montgomery with the story.

Punguality is an important virtue to a lot of people.

But for Richard Munez, it was a senior year history teacher that changed his outlook on life

by skipping out on the dates in class.

When I was in the 12th grade, I had a history teacher by name of Bill Mayhem.

Now, Bill wasn't a heck of a lot older than I was at the time, and he had kind of a unique approach to history.

He felt that dates weren't important. In fact, he also felt that dates were what turned people

off about history. You know, you had, well, Columbus came here in 1492 and stuff like that,

but what was learned out of history? To him, most of it was boredom. They couldn't see the relation that what happened

yesterday, how it impacts us today. If certain things haven't happened, we probably wouldn't be here

today. But history is also a lot more than about dates and about great people. It's about little people.

It's about the stories that are told.

Stories that are usually forgotten within a generation or two.

For example, I talk about Columbus coming to the Americas.

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