In these countries, as firsthand memories of the war dwindle, music is serving as a kind of proxy allowing postwar generations to approach a difficult history.

But if there's little firsthand memory, there's much that's secondhand and thirdhand, memory turned into pining, keening myth.

It is not a "how I got that picture" approach but provides firsthand memories of the day, accompanied by photographs that capture individuals frozen in hope or terror.

Clinton lowers her voice and clips her words to imitate Yeltsin, which validates the anecdote as a firsthand memory, not a secondhand story.

Quv was younger than Antaak's own adult children, and thus had no firsthand memory of the time before the Change.

Of course, Worf had firsthand memory of the Hugh incident, for it had happened on Enterprise during his own tenure as security chief.

The very phrase "The 60's" evokes a welter of firsthand memories and secondhand impressions: campus demonstrations, space exploration, fashion statements, assassination, assassination, assassination.

But no firsthand memories.

Hence towards the end of a string of wet decades, most people alive could have had no firsthand memory of the previous period of dry climate.