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As the discount sunglasses online outlet Muslim North African nation celebrates 50 years of nationhood on Thursday, the two countries are locked in a war of memories that still weighs on lives on both sides of the Mediterranean, and on the two countries' ties. There have been no apologies for the brutal eight-year war that ended 132 years of French rule in Algeria or admissions of the longstanding allegations of torture. A half-century after Algeria broke free and wrenched from France the crown jewel of its empire, there is no reconciliation. But Algerians keep waiting, while the French remain traumatized by loss and guilt. "Time is not sufficient" to make the discount sunglasses for men wounds on both sides disappear, said Benjamin Stora, a leading French historian on the era. "We see that the more time passes, the more memory returns. "This must be treated," he said in an interview in Paris, because the problem won't go away "by magic." President Abdelaziz Bouteflika kicked off a year of celebrations Thursday, laying a wreath at the soaring monument dedicated to the Algerians who lost their lives in the war – known as "martyrs." On a hill overlooking Algiers, the monument is a symbol of the legitimacy of the Algerian state, whose ideological foundations are embedded in the discount ray ban wayfarer whole sale independence war.