Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
It takes one person to forgive it takes two people to be reunited.
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
At the end of the day all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.