Sentence examples for duties to remember from inspiring English sources

In a corner of this ruined city, a group of British soldiers paused from their peacekeeping duties to remember their fallen compatriots who had come to conquer decades ago.

But do we really have a duty to remember people?

Hill writes, "I am caught between the duty to remember and the desire to erase".

Wronged people have a right, even a duty, to remember their sorrows.

We have a duty to remember more of our history than only those sacrifices we honour on Remembrance Day".

Although the pope chose to quote a predecessor rather than speak in his own words, he told Armenians there was a duty to remember to killings.

Zakor, Hebrew for the duty to remember, is at the core of Jewish practice and, I'd argue, the strain of that obligation is central to Jewish psychology.

I remember, too, something the priest had said earlier, when I had asked him about history, and forgetting, and about the duty to remember.

Yes, said some of his critics; it was his duty to remember the man's name and it was shocking that he did not.

On such occasions, when collective memory condemns communities to feel the pain of their historical wounds and the bitterness of their historical grievances it is not the duty to remember but a duty to forget that should be honoured.

The Buried Giant is Game of Thrones with a conscience, The Sword in the Stone for the age of the trauma industry, a beautiful, heartbreaking book about the duty to remember and the urge to forget.