Mary Godridge

Lest we forget… Another history proving that trauma lives on in people’s lives through new generations. This is an excellent docu-film series, another crucial lesson in recognition and remembrance. I would recommend it on school curriculums across Australia, the U.K. and U.S.A. as a sobering reminder of respect and the healing time needed. A new generation of privileged world tourists should know these scars and respect those harmed when visiting or emigrating to Australia. Recognition is long overdue. Healing can only begin with an effort to recognise and understand over a desire for emigration and expansion without regard. We all have a duty to address histories which deny inhumanities …all of us. When immunity to seeing and feeling exists, when the thirst for violent games and films increase and becomes the norm, when the voyeurism of relentless violence is the norm, when there is elitism without responsibility, when we are all numb to pain and suffering we are all in trouble… All of us! Lest we forget… Why so significant now? Because personal histories from living individuals and the evidence of objects and place can show the cost more than any epic star studded blockbuster movies manipulated for favoured outcomes. It is to all our cost if we relinquish our humanity and deny abuse in favour of more division and even less sentiment for humanity. Pertinent… Lest we forget!