One of the reasons I like living in the US is that the people here are really fascinating. Last week, I started talking with this man I always see around my department and who greets me in Russian (which is unusual for this area.)
He told me that he’d been a soldier in the Vietnam War, then came home, and worked hard for the sake of his family.
“At this point in my life,” he said, “money is not an issue to me. Now I want to make a different sort of investment in the future, not a monetary one. I’m doing a PhD in American History and I want to do academic research on the Vietnam War.”
He also believes that it is crucial for a historian to speak different languages, so he is taking language courses and becoming something of a polyglot.
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