People's ability to pick themselves up after devastation and rebuild is a wonderful trait that has allowed us to continue and prosper, but I think it also allows us to forget and repeat the same mistakes not once, but over and over.
To go to a memorial or view the rumble left after a war only serves as a picture into what occurred. It does not give all the emotions, the death, the loss, the sadness... the lasting imprint. A crumbling building does not give the stories of the people who lived and died there. Pictures do not show the faces or carcases of our loved ones. A memorial only seems to teach us of a specific atrocity so that it specifically is not repeated.
From these we take away who was the victim and who was the wrongdoer, we do not place both of these as part of ourselves. We take away a lesson as specific as memorizing 2 + 2 = 4, but not the concept as a whole so that later we make the same mistake and only them learn that 3 + 1 also equals 4.
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