Please excuse the delay in posting this, and its length. As you can imagine, it involved a lot of reflection and a lot of work. I hope it is worth your time reading it, it was definitely worth my time writing it. Remembering a thing like the Shoah, or the genocide of American Indians, requires a decision (or a series of decisions) not to turn away, not to retreat to a less disturbing narrative that omits or glosses over the really hard parts. That is, in fact, forgetting, erasing the parts of the story that are too painful or too challenging. Erase enough parts, often enough and for long enough, and the whole story changes, becomes a different story. At the heart of remembering is the conviction that it is better to know the truth, however
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