Thread: Memory - the good and the bad

These days we rely on the media (television) to teach our children history.

To remember something, we must be taught; by firsthand experience or our parents.

Soon Pearl Harbor will only be found in dusty old books & digital media placed in a section of the library that no one visits, hardly.

I know it's always painful to hear the truth when you would rather have a pollyanna moment. Your words ring so true Hirlau. We can only hope that in a generation or two there will be a resurgence of the need to investigate the past as a living entity, and that there will be the technology to do so, and that there will finally be the chance of learning from the past and avoid those old pitfalls that keep repeating themselves.