It’s not forgetting, it’s not learning

Thousands of allied soldiers are buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium.

It was visited by King George V in 1922, who said:

We can truly say that the whole Circuit of the earth is girded with the graves of our dead. In the course of my pilgrimage I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

One exhortation on Anzac Day is lest we forget.

The problem isn’t that we forget, it’s not learning in spite of  all the witnesses, silent or not, to the desolation of war.