Forgetting and trivializing what happened, and willfully so, is not the way to a better world; it is the way to a world in which such events as the Bataan death march and the atomic bombings of Japan are more likely to be repeated. And that is not a world to be desired.
Except, it's impossible to remember Everything. And maybe even not particularly desirable. Any one thing is not equivalent to any other thing. So, people have to pick and choose what they remember. In Russia, yes, the slogan has always been "No-one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten." But that *has* to refer to Our war, not to others' wars.
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Date: 2010-08-06 20:12 (UTC)Except, it's impossible to remember Everything. And maybe even not particularly desirable. Any one thing is not equivalent to any other thing. So, people have to pick and choose what they remember. In Russia, yes, the slogan has always been "No-one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten." But that *has* to refer to Our war, not to others' wars.