I will never forget speaking to one of the protesters who was among those who went, on Friday, February 18th, after the funeral of the first demonstrators killed, to demonstrate in front of the Central Security headquarters in Benghazi.
"Now I look back and think what a great career I have had but I will never forget speaking to him".
Even where spelling differs, hearing words like "huis" (house), "uit" (out) or "vergeten" (forget) spoken out loud reveals connections.
"The other pillar, which we must never, ever forget, speaks directly with a resonance to most people around the world, and that is what is grown on the local soil," he said.
And asks, "Is there still room to stimulate a conscience?" For Zavala, there is; he strives to lift the veil and record a history that must not be forgotten; speaking of his subjects, he says: "I want them to be remembered, that's what motivates me".
It was, everyone seems to agree, the moment when the forgotten spoke, finding their voices to reject the advice and guidance of experts and the elite everywhere.
Yet Carter's Buddhism, however quickly acquired and easily forgotten, speaks for his desire to try to get the better of his lower impulses and to break free of his prison of delights.
It is important, of course, that militarily we always carry as big a stick as possible when it comes to Russia, but the other part of Theodore Roosevelt's old dictum we seem to forget – the "speaking softly".
Both Lonnie and his mother talk to him, in the hope that he will forget and speak.
And sometimes preachers forget to speak to those issues that people deal with daily.
Odds are the real stories were even less interesting than Mr. Gordon's invented tales.We hear lines like, "I'm trying to catch everything before I forget it," spoken by a photographer.
