'Genocide? What genocide?'

It almost seems as if everyone wants to rewrite history. Why is this? One reason, and there may be many, is that all nations have historical events of which they are not proud. David Kuplenian writes an article on another recent attempt to rewrite history.

In his piece, he states, "Sincere, honest apology is the very epitome of moral courage."

He also writes, "__________ has suffered for _________ under a dark, cruel and inhuman culture. Today's _________ are not responsible for the atrocities committed by their ancestors -- they weren't even alive then. But today's __________ are responsible, as individuals and as a nation, for confronting the harsh reality of their nation's past, admitting it to the world, and apologizing to the __________ -- not only for the horrors of the genocide, but for having denied it ever since."

I have left out the proper nouns he used in his article to simply illustrate that if you use your imagination just a wee bit, you should be able to come up with a very large list of potential answers to this little quiz.

We would all be better off if all countries recognized and admitted to their most grievous mistakes; for doing so allows you to quit the denial game and your self imposed need to revise history. It is only this way we can indeed learn from our mistakes of the past. Denial and revision is a recipe for repeated mistakes, and worse, perhaps more atrocities. It is what we do as we move forward that is most important.

To find out what country he was writing about:
Go here to read David Kupelian's article.