Truth lost to Congress. History and memory are indelibly linked and thus the science of the latter must be understood. Depositions or writings may be accomplished days, months or years after an event and thus tainted by age, willful forgetting or purposeful remembering, memory loss, values of the recollector or construction versus recalling. There exists private or individual memory of an event and public or social, community, national remembrance, all of which can differ. There is a strong desire to connect historic events with ourselves and the present.
All history is subjective.
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