You can have vivid memories of things that never happened, and yet you can come away with the sketchiest recollections of events that actually did.

你会有对未发生过的事情的栩栩如生的记忆，可是你能在真实事件发生后在脑海中留下缩影。

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And besides, memories of foreign aggression are a convenient distraction from equally distressing recollections of what Chinese have suffered from their own rulers.

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Most importantly, what memories do we want to live on in the recollections of our friends, children, and grandchildren?

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