What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.