The Hill News

We live in a violent country.

It has always been thus.

One of our greatest statesmen (Alexander Hamilton) died in a duel with another one of greatest statesmen (Aaron Burr).

We were founded in bloody revolution, we were enlarged through a series of conquests later called Manifest Destiny, and we were forcefully unified in a terrifying civil war.

We glory in the wars we won (World War I, World War II, the Cold War) and we despair about the war we lost (Vietnam).

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