Website offer

Back a decade ago, after watching a tv documentary and reading about 8 big books, I got interested in writing some things about European history from 1870-1945. I ended up posting a website: http://www.geocities.com/greatwars. I worked on it off and on for about 2 years then in typical "me" fashion I moved on to other things. Even though it was one person's ideas about things, and not associated academically with anything, I did get mentioned as a source for a university, I think in Australia, for The First World War, and the "Battle of The Somme" in particular, one of two great battles that started on July 1st, my birthday (Gettysburg is the other).

I did not make it to 1945, only to about 1919.

A few weeks back I had an offer to "buy" the website, and I think he was as much interested in the Domain name as it had "great war" in the title, then in the actual articles. I thought about it and one idea was that since I hadn't looked at it much in so many years, that it might be nice for someone else to take it over and continue on.

I ran this idea past some friends who of course cautioned me that it would mean it would be totally out of my control. Google me and you get that website. I am associated with it for maybe all eternity! Worst case scenario would be that a person who does not share my views might steer it in a direction that it should never go in, such as, why the Nazis were not so bad a bunch of people, or that The Holocaust never happened.

I declined the offer.

TWF