1.0 link 205972 <![CDATA[Memory, War, and the Memory of War]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/louis-bickford/memory-war-and-the-memory_b_205972.html Memorial Day is meant to remind us of the hardship of war, and on this Memorial Day I find myself asking how we will remember the "war on terror." What will our children's children know about this period?

We choose in the present how future generations will remember the past. One of the great contributions of the human rights movement is showing that how we remember and memorialize trauma in the past -- torture under brutal regimes in Argentina or...

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