"We are people to whom the past is forever speaking. We
listen to it because we cannot help ourselves, for the past speaks to us with
many voices. Far out of that dark nowhere which is the time before we were
born, men who were flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone went through fire
and storm to break a path to the future. We are part of the future they died
for; they are part of the past that brought the future. What they did--the
lives they lived, the sacrifices they made, the stories they told and the songs
they sang and, finally, the deaths they died--make up a part of our own
experience. We cannot cut ourselves off from it. It is as real to us as
something that happened last week. It is a basic part of our heritage as
Americans". Bruce Catton
Source: Quote from the book America Goes to War, page 68.
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