History

Discussing the importance of last night, it occurred to me as someone too young to remember the moon landing, the important events in US history that people my age or younger have memories of are of Reagan being shot, the Challenger disaster, September 11th, and Hurricane Katrina. While there was much to be proud of in the way that Americans rose to the challenge of 9/11, it was a reaction, not a choice that we made, not a direction in which we chose to move. The truly great moments in recent history we were witnesses to, not parts of, and happened elsewhere ... the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Last night was a truly great moment in history--and one which we made happen.