History is just that, history.
If we did not care about history then why strive so hard to find Warren A. Coles burial place?
As docroc stated it is there to do and find and keep. Well, kind of.
Keeping History whether it be a small peice of metal as you say GammaZeta it is History, mine, yours or ours. Ergo, the great quest to find Warren Coles burial place.
Do you still have your Badge? Do you want to keep it and why? Does it mean anything to you? If so, why?
The articles that Mike Raymond writes about History are the first one I read when our C & C comes out.
As some sage once wrote, if you do not watch History, then one is apt to make the same mistakes! Well in my words of course!
History is 1 second ago, the future is now and forever!