"In history?" he asks, and then he shrugs. "Well I served in World War II and my father in World War I," he answers. "But even without that, I've always been interested in history, and civics. I don't think that American civics are needed here, but history - I think maybe that might be a necessary subject to cover."

If only because they could learn from it. "What about you? Why'd you pick history?"