Well, like someone said, while our ability to forget can be considered a blessing, it's also extremely dangerous. I like history, but looking back and seeing how many times we've repeated the same things over and over again is rather depressing. It's easy to become cynical when thinking about it that way (or perhaps that's just me), but I think it's very important that we don't, and that we do our best to prevent these things from happening again even though it might seem hopeless at times.

I wish we would have read more about conflicts that have taken place during the last 100 years or so during our history classes too. We did study WW1 and WW2 relatively well (not well enough though, imo - we talked very little about the things that happened outside of Europe) but that was it, more or less.

The picture looks amazing. ♥ I love that red cloth and the way it folds, it's very pretty.