Being the first to the moon? Being one of the greatest innovating collection of people's in human history? Writing down and actively expanding on rights and liberties? Being one of the largest and effective aid dispensers in the world through USAID? Being one of the founding nations of two world congresses?

Being bad and being good is like breathing, it reciporcates. Don't let the sins of the fathers cloud the son's sky. This nation is founded on principles and people choose whether or not to up hold those principles. We as a nation have committed grand sins and they must be recognized and recited throughout our history. But we mustn't forget the little heroes dense as stars in the Milky Way damnit. Forces of progress will always be pulled back by tradition. If they pull, then push. If they push, then pull. Fuck cynicism and nihilism, they philosophies of cowards and charlatans. MLK, Gandhi, Mandela, and so many other freedom fighters were flawed. Does that erase thier histories? Thier acts of worthy of national admiration can coexist with knowledge of thier faults and failures. It makes them human.