“Signore, this may seem funny, but I want to do something for all the people in the time of which you spoke. I want to very much, but I can’t, can I.” “But you can. It’s simple. You can do something just, and that is to remember them. Remember them. To think of them in their flesh, not as abstractions. To make no generalizations of war or peace that override their souls. To draw no lessons of history on their behalf. Their history is over. Remember them, just remember them—in their millions—for they were not history, they were only men, women, and children. Recall them, if you can, with
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