History...to stand in a place and know that this where you come from for a dozen generations or maybe a hundred generations or maybe more. To know there was a great city two thousand years ago in this place, and that your ancestors helped build it and lived there and worked there. When you walk down a small road, all the others who are walking there with you from before. David Vann
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History is the past that never ends. The actual history of people who have lived in a place can be passed down through generations, but their place in history must be remembered. This is the greatest glory in living.

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