TIL that a Vietnam veteran announced in 1979 he would raise $1M for a memorial on the National Mall listing every American killed in the war
he got laughed at on late night TV for only raising $144.50. three years later the wall was finished, paid for by 275,000 strangers
“There is no room in this country, for hyphenated Americanism…German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans. There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.”
Teddy Roosevelt.