Anyway, I seem to remember Chet saying that the accident that cost him the sight of one eye occurred in Chicago when he was a teen-ager or young man, helping a friend work on his car. Some of my siblings think it happened much later, after he moved out to Washington and that he was working on his own car. We'll never know. Sure wish someone had written it down. These are just a couple of simple examples of why it is important to write things down.
Memories are too faulty.
Sometimes the consequences of not writing things down are far greater than these examples. You never know. But one thing you can count on - people take their memories to the grave with them. If they don't leave a written record, sayonara, as we used to say in Japan.