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The history books will not tell the story of the war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles. They won’t include the name of the war because it is too distasteful. The people writing the history books don’t like to talk about wars. The job of history-writing is to make things seem better than they really were.
Source: Dreaming In Cuban
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