History’s pull
I want to thank Scott Kraft for his fine “Where Old Worlds Collide” [March 9]. Reading about the remote past of the city of Damascus reminds me of the words of Winston Churchill: “The further backwards you look, the further forward you can see.”
Evan Dale Santos
Adelanto, Calif.
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