History Remembers
When a correlation of events occurs that connect present situations with history in numbers greater than four, it becomes a phenomenon. As phenomenon is proven to deliberately connect in a series of parallels with an explicit meaning, it can be declared meant-to-be.
It is along the path of life that we learn through experience the events that move us the most, are the ones we value and retain best. But for the good or bad, the value of such knowledge is minimal when compared to time itself. We as a species could never know all. It is not our right to possess. There will always be that need to quench our thirst for the ultimate unknown. That is our human nature. The quest for existence into eternity will drive us to gamble and stretch the most of our intelligence to succeed in that destiny. But destiny is a human choice. A point in time where we make that one decision that will cast a future fate. Our fate may have been decided in the mid 1870s. It was then that the railroad divided the buffalo of the plains into two massive groups. One went north and the other south of the transcontinentl rail lines. And hence, began the end for the buffalo, and by 1875 the southern herd was gone.
The future is not carved in stone. We have choice, but only because we have intelligence. The ability to evaluate the facts and then render a decision. Fate can be changed by knowledge.
One has often said that history repeats itself, I am one who does not believe this. History remembers, only man repeats. It was said of the nineteenth-century that the buffalo hunters killed all the buffalo. This was evaluated as they were holding the evidence of the crime and the smoking guns to boot. But it was also derived that the government used them in a conspiracy to do their dirty work. It was General Phillip Sheridan (a Civil War hero) that exclaimed, the hide hunters can do more damage to the Indians by killing all the buffalo than the entire regular army had done in thirty years. And before a joint session of congress in 1874, Secretary of the Interior Delano had said, "The buffalo are disappearing rapidly, but not faster than I desire."
The American public is not aware of the fact, buffalo in Yellowstone National Park are still being persecuted and killed for the same reasons as they were in the nineteenth-century. Only this time, there are no mass numbers of buffalo hunters to attach the blame. This time the government is clearly out in the open. By using unverified assumptions, and violating the rights of land owners, they continue to besiege America's last pure gene pool of buffalo from the nineteenth-century. Why?
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