ABSTRACT
It probably happens in all parts of the inhabitable world. We endure the mistakes of prior generations. Many mistakes were epic, such as two world wars in the twentieth century, genocidal campaigns either ethnic or religious-based, and state sponsored barbarism and terrorism. Edward Gibbon, in his classic book, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, probably put it best:
“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”
