Oral+History+reflection

Learning history from a textbook is one thing. You get the fact, but you can't get emotion out of a hard cover book. Talking to some one who was there gives you more then just the facts, it gives you opinions. Hearing what my dad had to say about these event gave so much more insight on the topics. You can read about Apollo 17 landing, but you can't really get how proud the americans at home watching felt.

Talking to my dad like that was actually interesting. Not only did I get further knowledge on the topics of the 70s, but I got to known more about my dads past. I learned what he takes away from his teenage years and what the pressing issues were of the time. From talking to him it seemed that the oil crises had the biggest effect on him and his family. They were not the wealthiest family and for them to change their life style because they had to work around their increase budget on gas must have been hard, especially for an 8th grader. That like me now having to give up things because of some crisis in foreign countries that I didn't fully understand.