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 Best thing we can do is learn from the mistakes and sacrifices people made for us, in order to not allow them to be repeated in the future.

We can only learn from the past in order to steer the future in the right direction. 
 We don’t. We won’t. 9/11 and Iraq proved this. 
And now complete genocide happening on the evening news for all to see.  Behead a few American babies and young men will be lining up to kill.  Simple math. 
 As long as people like you and me are cognizant of the past, there is always hope. Eventually, enough people will come to the same realisations and things will shift. Especially if we keep talking about it. They have before, they will again. 
 I don’t know about that. Vietnam was an interesting experiment. Almost an entire country against a confusing “war” but it persisted. 
 I just know nobody in my family will be going off to get blown up. We will all Muhammad Ali ourselves first if required. 
 And that's where it starts. We can only really influence those in our lives, and that's all that really matters as far as I'm concerned. 
 gotta stay empirical