He berates a young German soldier, a boy who had nothing to do with what happened a lifetime ago, for all the sins of his people. Gabe doesn't differentiate. The past is like the number on his arm. It never leaves him. The soldier says he, too, is burdened by the past.
Nothing can change what was.
That's what Gabe wants to know. We struggle with a balancing act between remembering and forgetting in America too. Mississippi is the last state to fly the Confederate flag within its flag. The Sons of Confederate Veterans say it represents their history. Blacks say it's a symbol of bigotry.