Our own local history has always been very interesting to me. We took history in school, but it was about ancient times. People were always fighting, it seems. Their kings and rulers called the shots, but it was the soldiers and citizens who had to do the fighting. Whether it was BC, the Roman, Europeans, Asians, English, French, Irish, or whoever else, it was always the same. Sometimes it was because of a famine in one country, and their king