When We Were Great

Thoughts on seeking shelter in the past.

Photo by Luke Stackpoole on Unsplash

When were we ever great? Was it when we beat the Soviets to the moon and opened up an entirely new frontier? When we helped a continent win a war against history’s greatest villain and ended a genocide? Could it be when we arrived on that same continent decades earlier and extinguished another world war on that aged, troubled soil so rife with powerful nations…