Excellent post :) as always.

History of course, is written primarily by the victors and their authors, with their biast perspectives, forged by their own cumulative experience, education, allegiances and influences.

While history is of utmost import in supplying lesson material for humanity, we should always try to appreciate that it is a perspective, gained through a very narrow aperture and filled with flawed opinion and observation and rendition.

There are as many versions of any historical event as people exposed to it and the English, Afrikaner and Black African versions are completely different.

A good example is the claim by indigenous African people that they were here before the white people and that their lands were stolen from them.

The San people, who were here according to empirical scientific evidence claim that there were no other indigenous peoples at the time the European colonists arrived in South Africa and the only other African peoples migrated from the north after that time, implying that the land rights claim is invalid.

The horrors of war and its impact on people are of grave moment and those who foster it and seek the lives of other are responsible for heinous malevolence.

Whatever the truth is about people who lived centuries ago, we who are alive, should always learn these few important lessons :

Love one another.
Treat all others as our equals, at the very least.
Work together for the good of all and,
Prepare a world of peace and resultant prosperity for our progeny.

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