Who would want to forget about history?

I believe that  history no matter how bad it was, or how badly it would hurt the countries reputation, it should never be forgotten. For example the U.S surrender of the Philippines to the Japanese and the largest single capture of U.S forces in history along with the Bataan death march. It is comparable to denying that the soldiers that had surrendered had never existed and the men who were killed in duty and for survival, died without recognition.  Even in the country that had experienced such a tragedy should show the way they improved themselves to overcome that error and prevent it from occurring again.