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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 25986434, member: 10461&quot;]The Mr. Vose I mentioned was my 11th grade History teacher.</p><p><br /></p><p>He was a former Navy Lieutenant Commander, and though he was an older guy, we considered him one of the “cool” teachers.</p><p><br /></p><p>He used to slip up and swear in front of the class sometimes. For whatever reason, Mr. Vose <i>hated</i> the Kennedies.&nbsp; He’d be in the middle of a lecture and then snap and say something about the blankety-blank Kennedies, much to the shock and amusement of us high school kids.</p><p><br /></p><p>He used to drive a Lotus Esprit sports car to school, like the one in one of the James Bond movies.</p><p><br /></p><p>So yeah, Mr. Vose made an impression.&nbsp; But my <i>coin</i> collection still taught me far more about history.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS- speaking of history- in the same high school I attended, one of the later teachers (after I had graduated and gone) was Heinz Guderian’s son.&nbsp; The elder Guderian was one of the top German generals who spearheaded the Blitzkrieg in WW2.&nbsp; Would’ve been interesting to hear his son’s lectures.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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