He is also right to raise issues of the long neglected but immensely important, forgotten subject of industrial democracy, though Mr Miliband could have been much bolder here.
Karl Txajkaug Thoj, director of the Hmong Association of Green Bay, sees the resolution as an unwelcome mat that says to his community, "You're not important, forget about your culture, forget about being different".
But when a classmate was assigned to follow their instructions as literally as possible, it became clear that removing the bread from its bag was an important, forgotten step.
Dubbed "the most important forgotten intellectual of the nineteenth century", du Bois-Reymond established that nerves transmit electrical signals and, in his day, was celebrated for public lectures that explored science, philosophy, history and literature.
Good memory requires selecting what is important and forgetting the rest.
More important, everybody forgot to listen to music.
It's important not forget your own worth.
Everything should be remembered, they argue, in case something important is forgotten.
There's a similar feel here for the passage of time — and for important events forgotten in a haze of alcohol and denial.
