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.
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.
The impulses behind "Forgotten Time" speak to the same universalism informing all but a very few of the Ailey works I've seen.
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".
Rosie Palfy, representing the Forgotten Veterans, speaks from her podium about real issues facing not only veterans but lots of people, but her speech isn't abrasive or inflammatory, so most people pay her no mind.
Both Lonnie and his mother talk to him, in the hope that he will forget and speak.
