What Is/Was Your Favorite Subject in School?
In high school, I loved history. We’d get our books just after Labor Day, and by Christmas I’d already read them from cover-to-cover.
Why?
The stories, mostly. Perhaps that’s what planted the seed of my eventually becoming a writer.
The period of history I was most interested in was World War Two. This was in the 1960s—less than 20 years after the war, so everything that had happened in Europe and Japan was still relevant; ripples and repercussions were still being felt on a daily basis: Stories were on the TV and in the newspaper.
Plus, the Atomic Age had begun.
For example, the nuns at St. Benedict’s Parochial School in Geistown, PA, would routinely hold “Duck & Cover” drills, making us hide under our desks and cover our eyes to protect us from a nuclear blast.
They also closed the blinds.
(When I got older, I learned what a waste of time those actions were. Had a bomb hit anywhere near us, we would have been burned to a charcoal-like crisp.)
My love of history was probably one of the reasons I majored in Political Science when I went away to college at what was then called Shippensburg State College.
Ironically, even though I became a writer, I wasn’t particularly interested in English classes — but I really enjoyed studying Latin. Why? Maybe because of its connection to history. (Also, at the time, the Catholic Mass was in Latin, so it was relevant, from a religious standpoint.)
That’s about it.
So, tell, me: "What is/was your favorite subject in school?"
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