What Can Never Be Recaptured

“History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect.  We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.”[1]

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[1] C. V. Wedgwood, William the Silent, cited in Carlo D’Este, Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2002), 7.