I'm all for moving on as well - but not for forgetting. No way. You're right we can't change anything, but we can certainly remember it, honour it, and make it so it never happens again. That's how we learn. That's how we compensate for and make up for terrible injustices. Not by saying `Oh well, sh!t happens, get over it' but by saying `We will acknowledge this dreadful thing, we will validate your feelings about it, and we will work and strive so it never happens again'. THAT is moving on - with honour and grace and dignity and respect. And there's nothing wrong with that.
And some things should never be forgotten - ever. They're just that bad that humanity needs to remember because we need to be reminded of what we are capable of as humans, and of what we should never, ever let happen again.
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We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs, but we still can't just behave ourselves. Even if to save our own lives, we are a brutal kind. The Shins
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