" We are the people to whom the past is forever speaking. We listen to it becasue we cannot help ourselves, for the past speaks with many voices. For out of that nowhere, which is the time before we were born, men who were flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, went throught fire and storm to break a path to the future. We are part of the future they died for; they are a part of the past that brought the future. What they did - the stories they told and the songs they sang, and finally, the deaths they died, make up a part of our own experiences. We cannot cut ourselves off from it. It is as real to us as something that happened last week. It is a basic part of our heritage as Americans." Bruce Catton