in the decades to come, the world would strive to understand the order of events, the importance of the variables; it would call upon great minds to assign blame and establish how cruel the culprits had been. Sometimes it would fall silent, hoping to make people forget how intolerable the crime had been. Other times it would promise what happened would never happen again. Rarely would it be mentioned that this promise had already been made once, then broken when the aggressor, the loser, was punished.
