There will be those that see the past as something to be shunned, that the world they live in has no connection to anything that may have happened when their grandparents were children or indeed when their great-grandparents were able to fight in wars beyond their comprehension; it is their right after all to believe such things, just as it is the right of all us to think in comfort that the Spanish Civil War was just something that happened and could not have been avoided.