It is a visible monument to past history and heroics on part of the keepers.

It sort of erases a part of the past. You no longer have that visual history.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

I've been around Penn State my entire life, so I have a good perspective for its history. Forty years from now when they write about Michael Robinson, they'll write that he was the ultimate team player. That's all you need to know about him.

History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.

It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That’s not quite correct. We all forget history. The key is whether we have a way to go back to rediscover what we forget. More directly, the key is whether an objective past can keep us honest.