"We, in our time, are raising a new generation of Americans who, to an alarming degree, are historically illiterate. The situation is serious and sad. And it is quite real, let there be no mistake. It has been coming on for a long time, like a creeping disease, eating away at the national memory."
"While the clamorous popular culture races on, the American past is slipping away, out of sight and out of mind. We are losing our story, forgetting who we are and what it's taken to come this far."
"While the clamorous popular culture races on, the American past is slipping away, out of sight and out of mind. We are losing our story, forgetting who we are and what it's taken to come this far."
- Historian David McCullough, at a 1995 National Book Awards ceremony
"Just as nature abhors a vacuum, so too does the human soul. As we forget who we are and where we've come from, a great void is being carved out in the soul of the West -- and many other belief systems are seeking to fill the vacuum."
- God and Churchill by Jonathan Sandys
Remember an earlier post (click here to read it again) where I shared some of what God's word warns about "forgetting"?
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