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War, Truth And Memory
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- Slide 1: War, Truth and Memory War Truth Munich We Were Soldiers Memory Imagology “How to Tell a True War Story”
- Slide 2:War is a force that gives us meaning “War makes the world understandable, a black and white tableau of them and us. It suspends thought [...] Most of us willingly accept war as long as we can fold it into a belief system that paints the ensuing suffering as necessary for a higher good...” (10)
- Slide 3:War is a force that gives us meaning “The historian Will Durant calculated that there have only been twenty-nine years in all of human history during which a war was not underway somewhere.” (10)
- Slide 4:War is a force that gives us meaning “Our dead. Their dead. They are not the same. Our dead matter, theirs do not.” (14)
- Slide 5:War is a force that gives us meaning Collective amnesia: suppressing historical facts, in order to furt
