So... It Looks Like They Want To Tear Down Newtown Elementary School And Rebuild It...

[Igel]

22. Leave it.

As with other things, the memory is only important to a small number of people living there now and many more who can make use of that memory to achieve their own goals. In 100 years, there'll be a plaque, a new school, and people won't give a tinker's damn about what happened there.

Think of it this way: It's hardly likely that those kids will be mourned more in 100 years than all the dead of WWI are today. The mourning that remains from WWI is largely not in the US, and even then it's mostly either lipservice to an idea borne of WWI or traditional and ceremonial.

The same is true of the wars fought 70 years ago and 60 years ago.

So to be honest, that "100 years" is exaggerated. In 10 years any remaining grief will be private. No political mileage will be obtainable from it except as part of a list of events so those professing suffering will be those who actually did suffer and haven't healed. In 30 years any remaining personal grief that bears the title will probably be classified as mental illness.


In 500 years, there won't be a plaque and when this century is summed up in the equivalent of 1000 pages it won't bear mentioning.

Life wins. It forever forgets to yield and limit itself simply in order to appease death and death's demands.