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Passionately Wrong Podcast Episode E026

ASH Interview with Erek Dorman

Key takeaway: History is alive and all around us. Erek sees it and helps bring it alive for anyone who’s interested

Topics covered in this video:

Erek’s years at ASH and the years growing up before ASH
Culture shock on moving back to the US from Europe
Attitudes toward drinking and marijuana use (change in drinking age)
Erek’s drawing skills, high school drawings
His interest in military history, why it’s such a broad field of study
Military re-enactors - who does it, why they do it, what it involves
Erek’s promotion through the ranks, and various reenactments
His current WWI impression at the WWI Memorial in Washington, DC
Why Erek likes questions, including relatively ignorant ones
His German heritage and what it means to him
What he liked about living in Holland and being in Europe
Erek and snacks - his position on Frites, McDonalds, Poffertjes
Choosing to be a father, adopting his son
Why he doesn’t have any regrets
Rule #1 for his son: be safe (physically, with emotions, decisions, etc.)
Erek’s love of the nearness of history when one lives in Europe
His freelance tours of battlefields, including for a US Senator
Discussion of how the military looks at battlefield history itself
His cancer diagnosis and health problems, and how they gave him perspective on life
His sense of humor helps him deal with life
Randy’s discussion of military preparation for funeral arrangements
Why Erek doesn’t complain about what happens in life

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Passionately Wrong Podcast Episode E026

ASH Interview with Erek Dorman

Key takeaway: History is alive and all around us. Erek sees it and helps bring it alive for anyone who’s interested

Topics covered in this video:

Erek’s years at ASH and the years growing up before ASH
Culture shock on moving back to the US from Europe
Attitudes toward drinking and marijuana use (change in drinking age)
Erek’s drawing skills, high school drawings
His interest in military history, why it’s such a broad field of study
Military re-enactors - who does it, why they do it, what it involves
Erek’s promotion through the ranks, and various reenactments
His current WWI impression at the WWI Memorial in Washington, DC
Why Erek likes questions, including relatively ignorant ones
His German heritage and what it means to him
What he liked about living in Holland and being in Europe
Erek and snacks - his position on Frites, McDonalds, Poffertjes
Choosing to be a father, adopting his son
Why he doesn’t have any regrets
Rule #1 for his son: be safe (physically, with emotions, decisions, etc.)
Erek’s love of the nearness of history when one lives in Europe
His freelance tours of battlefields, including for a US Senator
Discussion of how the military looks at battlefield history itself
His cancer diagnosis and health problems, and how they gave him perspective on life
His sense of humor helps him deal with life
Randy’s discussion of military preparation for funeral arrangements
Why Erek doesn’t complain about what happens in life

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