Though in most societies remembering past atrocities is a near-sacred duty,sometimes remembering too wellcan be a goad to war, rather than peace. Brooke talks to David Rieff, or author of the book In compliment of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies,about how collective memory uses the past for the purposes of the present. Song:"Thanks for the Memory" by Erroll Garne
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