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

We've lost a great deal of our cultural history. Even if you rebuild one, you lose an actual piece of history.

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

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

A lot of the collections in the house were moved before the storm, but the actual house is gone. Even if you rebuild one just like it, it's not his house. It's not the one he built.

History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.