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FiveGoodMen
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Thu May-14-09 12:32 PM
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My dad was a high school history teacher.
He and I used to debate all kinds of topics and one recurring theme was, "Is history important?"
My view (as a teenager) was that we're all slaves to history -- through tradition -- and that we should break free of it.
His view was basically Santayana's, "Those who can't remember history are condemned to repeat it."
All these years later, that's the one argument that I think he won.
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