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Happy Independence Day, America!
Here are a few things — some central, some kind of random — that are great about America:
Here are a few things — some central, some kind of random — that are great about America:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address.
Frederick Douglass’s Lecture on John Brown.
Prince playing the Super Bowl halftime show in 2007.
America sent robots to fly past and photograph every planet in the solar system. Scientists at JPL and other NASA facilities put orbiters around 6 of them. We have a fleet of robots orbiting or roving Mars *right now*.
Apollo to the Moon!
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket landing on a ship! Made by a company founded by an immigrant.
Son of a Syrian migrant whose iconic company making “insanely great” products.
The Marshall Plan.
PEPFAR, the U.S. program combating HIV/AIDS that has saved an estimated 18 million Africans’ lives.
Spielberg.
Cordell Hull, who led the way in building a new world trading system on the ruins of depression, war, and the Hawley-Smoot tariff — helping lift untold millions from poverty.
Cormac McCarthy.
Humphrey Bogart warning the Nazis that “there are certain sections of New York I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.”
A nation capable of learning and mending its ways.
A nation capable of learning and mending its ways.
#HBD America! /end
