Thank you Tom & Barbara.  

You said, better than I could, what I have been thinking as I read these recent posts.  What's over is over.  It is what it is.  Every group in history has wronged and been wronged by someone else.  Remember it accurately so that it is not forgotten and learn from it what not to do to others. You cannot fix the past, only now and, perhaps, the future.

Anne in Brooklyn
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>From: Tom Apple <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Feb 14, 2007 7:37 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Long memories
>
>Barbara Vines Little posted a wise and excellent statement in another heatedly
>debated thread:
>
>On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:37:06 -0500, Barbara Vines Little, CG wrote
>> I think that man's inhumanity to man no matter what his ethnic
>> background is equally gruesome and well documented (and should not
>> be hidden from children--how else do they learn) and that we should
>> all now be able to agree that no one group is superior or inferior
>> in that regard... 
>
>Making the study of history an overly emotional process is precisely why these
>nonsensical arguments start. There needs to be a big collective "Get over it!"
>
>If you want to get angry about injustice, take your pick of a myriad of
>current ones and get worked up over that. This "my ancestors were more wronged
>than your ancestors" is getting really old. Passing judgement on people long
>dead is a waste of time.
>
>Regards,
>
>Tom A.
>
>I'm still po'd about that snake in the Garden of Eden...
>
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