Social pressure influences current social issues and sets objectives for the future. And that's how it should be. Social pressure is also rewriting history and oppressing history. I have a problem with that. Offering a new perspective on history is one thing... trying to Eradicate history is something else. On this memorial day we remember those that served in the military and died while in service. The origins of memorial day dates back to the American Civil War in 1864. Over 600 thousand died fighting at war. There's facts, Interpretations, and perspectives about the war, it's reasons, causes, Ramifications. Regardless of anyone's perspective and feelings, history is history that can not be changed. Yet on this memorial day, as the different war losses where remembered, any mention about the civil war, and those that died has been eliminated. Just as schools have stopped teaching about civil war history. Social pressure has made history about the civil war a politically forbidden subject. Why? Because it's offensive to, and creates emotional hardships on today's black society... 160 years later. History can not be changed, but it's evident that society does choose how it's perceived. And over time, if surpressed, the causes,effects, and outcome of the civil war will be lost to history...by merely a footnote As a sinks into obscurity. Much like the fate of native Americans, whos lands, culture, and lives were taken away by war... justified by the wants of society. Forgotten as if it never happened. Time marches on... I wonder what society pressure will choose to surpress because they find something offensive.
Hears to the remembrance of the civil war soldiers that not only died, but in many cases gave up their own identity... the unknown soldiers and their graves.
