Stephanie Morgenstern

“Our national, collective concern, is the idea of war. It's too easy to say, "Never again." And "Lest we forget." What has our society's memory of war really taught us? With the passage of time, our memories become selective, and our history becomes myth. We actually only remember that soldiers are brave, that it hurts to lose loved ones, and that it's better to win wars than to lose them. We see this all over again in today's American patriotic war films.”