I started thinking that it was one of those major events that everyone knows exactly where they were when it happened. But the reality is that it was 18 years ago. None of the new voter class for election year 2020 were even born then. The new college grads weren’t old enough to remember. Similarly, the overriding reality I grew up under… the Cold War, is for them absolutely ancient history. And there is the ongoing effort to rewrite history…all of our history. A couple of weeks ago I spoke with a staffer for one of the standing executive committees. He remarked to me that only in America is the phrase, “That’s history,” considered a disparaging comment. Everywhere else the idea attached to that history carries great importance.
Robert Heinlein wrote: A generation that ignores history has no past…and no future.