History doesn't intend to have some particular emotional value, or any particular moral. History doesn't have any intentions at all. It's just a never-ending web of events that can have pretty much any meaning at all. But we, in retrospect, make this web into a story that makes sense. We superimpose onto it a beginning, middle, and end. We decide who the main characters are, the good guys and the bad guys. We decide what the moral of the story is, and how everyone is supposed to feel about it."" But history is facts, " I said. "It's not a matter of opinion."" To a certain extent, " Dad granted. "The facts matter, to a certain extent. You can't create a story without some facts to base it on. But what 'really happened' doesn't matter. What matters is how we agree to remember it. Leila Sales
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History isn't bound to have value or moral. It's just a never-ending web of events that can have pretty much any meaning at all therefore it is hard to make sense out of the history because the events are not bound to have any particular meaning. What matters is how we agree to remember it. Each of us can share our own subjective experience of this event in our own individual way, but the real reason why history is important is that it serves as an example of what can happen when man does not learn from his mistakes.

Source: Past Perfect

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