A place where dreams come true, has the audacity to display Pirates of the Carribean. It represents an important but nasty and wicked era in history, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Solutions are tried in various types of mixtures of forgiving and forgetting and remembering and recording and just closing chapters. Disney attempted to be politically correct by excluding the black presence in this exhibit. Which I feel is a mockery and misrepresentation of history. We need sacred memory--that somehow it's very important that we have it. So the common lay person can see this insult committed by Disney. One needs to acknowledge that for some people, memory is sacred and they will kill in the name of memory and they will do all kinds of things. Whereas for other people, it holds almost no importance. So the argument is simply to recognize that memory will matter differently to different people, but not to ignore the fact that it can have a lot of power, motivating action. Culturally narratives help to organize a set of differing historical experiences and render those experiences more broadly noticed. That is, the narrative itself becomes a vehicle for exchanging ideas, feelings and attitudes about differing historical experiences across and within existing generations. Among the distinguishing features of collective or cultural memory are its construction by a national or social group, its social quality, its indirect and sometimes contradictory to official histories, and its interest in appropriating the past into a contemporary dynamic of power, identity formation or determination of cultural norms. Its documents can be as diverse as acts of commemoration and monuments, memoirs, novels and films, works of art, jokes, children's textbooks, written or filmed testimony relating to a particular cultural event or era. In this paper I will explore cultural memory as it informs narratives, novels, and poetry.