It is easy to forget, with a Scudetto now in prospect, how distant a goal that once seemed.
The glaring deficiencies will not be eliminated anytime soon, nor forgotten with a single victory or a record-setting shooting display.
That really was a film to forget, with a very misjudged ending which appeared to think it had split the difference between choosing violence and non-violence.
Now, Martin Scorsese hopes to ensure their story will not be forgotten with a film based on Endo's novel that is due for release next year.
We began this baseball year, let's not forget, with a teary, televised confession of the obvious: that Mark McGwire, erstwhile batting-practice Hercules, had used performance-enhancing drugs in his playing days.
On this fifth anniversary it is time to honour Kenichi-san's plea not to be forgotten with a credible and independent review of the real costs and consequences of Australia's uranium trade.
And then, with her eyes closed, my mother said the one or two words the living have for gratefulness, which is a kind of forgetting, with a sense of what it means to be alive long enough to love someone.
Don't forget with a pair you'll need an even larger cage to avoid territorial problems.
And of course there is no forgetting with an I.U.D.
