I have often asked myself why I had waited so long. When I think about all of these matters now, it seems to me that as long as I could, I wanted to protect my sons while they were young, and shield myself as long as possible. I also remember instances when, pushed against the wall, and at the end of human endurance, we resorted to dishonesty and corruption. Conditions made us sink to man's lowest level. Each and every single story, each and every life, is important.
Every personal history is worthy of record.
Your children may want to recount our stories to their children. We need that record. It is a vital part of the mosaic about which I have spoken earlier. When thousands and tens of thousands of individual tiles fit together and begin to make sense, they, and they alone, give us an idea of what the whole may have been like. We are the last link to the past, and I cannot underscore this enough.