What remains implies not only that there was a past but that someone will be waiting in the future, ready and willing to bear witness to that past.

I was born into a world molded under the weight of war and conflict. Someone first had to teach me this about the world.

In elementary school, I asked my fourth grade history teacher why we only ever talked about wars. I didn’t understand why wars had to shape my understanding of the past or initiate me to the present…