Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we

Townsend's Inlet - Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty…inauguration speech of JFK January 1961. How did we fall off those goals that built alliances and buttressed against totalitarians until they crumbled? American greatness came from rising above itself to improve a shattered world and reach for goals beyond the dirt upon which we stand. Now we consider greatness as unlimited self greed and self delusion that is fed by narcissism.