as if we could forget what we saw, and who we worried for.
And yet time and time again we see society forget the horrors and the evils and repeat their mistakes. When did the US drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? These days you're lucky if people can remember what year or month it happened it. This was an atrocity, and we have mostly forgotten. There are thousands of people convinced that the Holocaust never happened, people can't remember the day Pearl Harbor was bombed, or when Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Even in our lifetime, many people cannot remember what year, let alone the date that the Challenger exploded.
Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana
I'm not condoning those that are using it as a battle cry, but we do need to remember, and make sure we don't forget. Because in 20 years, the next generation will hardly care or know about it, unless we remember and we tell them.
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Date: 2008-09-16 14:34 (UTC)And yet time and time again we see society forget the horrors and the evils and repeat their mistakes. When did the US drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? These days you're lucky if people can remember what year or month it happened it. This was an atrocity, and we have mostly forgotten. There are thousands of people convinced that the Holocaust never happened, people can't remember the day Pearl Harbor was bombed, or when Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Even in our lifetime, many people cannot remember what year, let alone the date that the Challenger exploded.
Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana
I'm not condoning those that are using it as a battle cry, but we do need to remember, and make sure we don't forget. Because in 20 years, the next generation will hardly care or know about it, unless we remember and we tell them.