It’s unlikely that you’ll meet someone who has been to more of these places than me. I’ve crawled around in countless bunkers and unfinished Nazi underground tunnels.Īnd I’ve explored 38 concentration camps and death camps. For more than 30 years I traveled all over the world selling products for my company during the week and then spending the weekend exploring WW1 and WW2 battlefields, cemeteries, museums and other interesting places from the UK all the way to Volgograd, or Stalingrad as it was called during WW2. And suddenly, with a lot of weekends available to explore Europe, I was able to both make a living and study history. Low and behold, I found myself traveling all over the world numerous times over the course of a year. But I could never imagine making a living from it so I decided to study Engineering and went to work in the tech industry.
I’ve been interested in history for as long as I can remember.
Normandy Scholars Program, University of Texas, February 2018
