"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", George Santayana, 1905
The other day, after having commuted, on and off, for over 40 years from the Hartsdale, NY RR station, I noticed, for the first time, a plaque on a rock with the inscription, "Lest We Forget 1917-1918." The plaque, of course, was a memorial to local veterans of WWI, the seminal event of the 20th Century. And, while it is true that both the...
