Me and This Blog!!

Hello and welcome to my new blog on Mexico. My name is Duane Donecker and I am a 44 year old college student, and a full time college student at that. A bit about my history, I retired from the United States Navy on 31 Dec 2005 and am currently attending college at San Diego City College on the 9/11 GI Bill.

Now just so you know I am not a professional blogger, although I do like to write and let my opinion on things be known. I have 4 passions in my life and those passions are first of all, my Savior the Lord Jesus Christ, second my wife and son Sandi Donecker and Jesiah Donecker. My son Jesiah is only 4 and our first and only child so needless to say he has taught me allot.

My third passion and fourth kind of fit in together, the third being History. Me and history are like two peas in a pod. I love to study the history of every thing, not just the United States or the World or a particular country, rather I study the history of everything. I love your typical history classes such as US History, World History and Western Civilization but I have also attended classes covering the history of music, history of world religions, and history of art and would love to attend classes on the history of dance, history of medicine. It doesn't matter, if you can study somethings someones history I will study it.

This particular blog is being created to go hand and hand with the history of Mexico class I am currently enrolled, and I find quite fascinating. The thing I would love the casual reader to remember when considering history is that history repeats itself if your not careful and in 99% of all history what is written is usually manipulated by the people recording the history that is why I am careful about not just studying one source, studying history is a science where you analyze the information you have and applying it to the future and hopefully the good parts of history repeats itself and you can keep bad aspects from history from coming back. For example studying Hitler can probably help you spot personality types like that in the future, keeping someone like him from ever coming to power.

Now in creating this blog I mention the History, Present and Future because they are all interrelated especially when it comes to Mexico. The dynamics in Mexican society are so powerful they can make your head swim and all three aspects of this blog are constantly at play in Mexico, possibly unlike anywhere else in the world. Mexico is a dangerous place today where honestly no one is in charge of the government. I hope you will find this blog eye opening. Right now in this country many people see terrorism as the major threat to America, but in my opp ion the biggest threat to the security of the United States is the insecurity in The United States Of Mexico.