Sep 11, 2012 19:00
Remember the Maine!
Remember the Lusitania!
Wait - no one does that anymore?
No - because all fades into the mists of time. It is not forgetting so much as it is healing. What is to be served by opening the wound again and again?
By continually looking back, we completely miss our present and fail to look forward into our future. The bell cannot be unrung, but it need not continue to toll.
We do not honor the dead by mourning them endlessly. That makes us just as dead inside. We honor the dead by living - living now, in the present, not in the past.
Life goes on after death. THIS we should never forget.
history repeating