by John Galt » Thu Apr 21, 2016 8:44 am
as i said before, last time this came up, we should have images of history and things bigger than mere men
1 - Independence. Crossing the Delaware, Declaration
2- 1812: battle of baltimore, and OLD HICKORY defending nawlins
5 - Civil War. Mural of Gettysburg battle on one side, Lincoln giving the Gettysburg address on the other
10 - World Wars: D-Day, Iwo Jima
20 - Moon Landing. Saturn V, and planting the flag on the moon's face and claiming it for i mean mankind
50 - National parks. Yellowstone one one side, Denali on the other
100 - Benjamin, since he's awesome. DC on the other side
other things that might be awesome are Ellis Island, the Transcontinental Railroad, Arlington, some sort of mashup of inventions/pop culture like light bulbs and baseball and rock n roll, Hiroshima (possibly insensitive)
Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience. -- Theodore Roosevelt
My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough.