We need to find out about and remember the past and take action today.
I quite often say that we seem not to learn from the lessons of history. Oh sure, we remember for a while – a generation or two – but then the memories dim as the people who lived through that history die off and there is nobody to tell the stories with passion, with first-hand experience. The immediacy fades and we return to the old ways or settle into new ones. One example is Hitler and the Holocaust. My grandparents and parents well remembered those lessons, for they lived through them. I have, perhaps a slightly dimmed sense of it, for I was not yet born, but still a heightened awareness from a childhood spent hearing the stories from one set of grandparents, my mother, and my father who fought in WWII. And I passed many of those stories to my own children and granddaughter, but by this time they…
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