What has been America's greatest moment?

When Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek.

When we built the interstate highway system. (not a joke)

Sending man to the moon.

Landing a man on the moon and safely bringing him home.

When John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence.

Hard to pin down any one event, but I’m inclined to say the establishment of the Post Office in 1775.

When the Civil War ended and we all became Americans.

Roosevelt’s establishment of the WPA, the CCC and other Federal projects to pull us out of the Depression. There were a number of things he did wrong but those were some of the best events in American history. I can’t think of too many others. Perhaps the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps.

Not doing to the African Americans what they did to the native Americans. God bless the mercy of our colonist ancestors.

@Blackberry I assume that’s tongue in cheek??

Lol ok how about going to space!

@janbb

And a great many of those works we’re still deriving benefit from to this day.

@Darth_Algar Indeed!

To me it was the Revolutionary War. It marked the time when America finally had an identity. Before that they were seen as some small-time settlers by the Europeans like England, and England was just there for the money. The rest of America’s achievement is history.

Electing a Black President.

Helping to win WWII despite the ravages of the Spanish flu of 1918. Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. But truly helping in winning WWll. The world would be completely different if Hitler had won and billions of lives would’ve been lost and whole races demolished.

Oh, wait. I take that back. Our greatest moment was during WWll but it was because of the people of our nation. Those who saw it as their duty to join the military, and women who went to work in the factories to keep productivity going and help pump out parts for planes and ships and vehicles to fight in. Our volunteer nurses and doctors to help our wounded in dangerous places. And the Native Americans who help with code talking. That was our greatest moment and I don’t think anything else has ever beat it.

Americans didn’t want to have any thing to do with the war. They stayed the hell out of it. Then Pearl Harbor and we were in it.

@Dutchess_lll Yeah, but after that we really came together and there were still a lot of people who joined the service before that. Though true it could’ve been more because of lack of jobs but we still came together as a nation and kicked butt. Now the sucky part was the interment camps for the Japanese Americans, though I think it was any Asian at the time.

“Now the sucky part was the interment camps for the Japanese Americans, though I think it was any Asian at the time.”

Nope, just those of Japanese ancestry. And it’s a huge black mark on FDR.

@Darth_Algar I wasn’t sure. Thanks. If anything when I think of everything we achieved it seems to be tied to a dark time that shouldn’t have happened in the first place.

Mom remembers many of her elementary school friends being sent to camps.

One of my Jr High friends was 100% Japanese, his dad was put in a camp. Highly educated man that kept a Zen sand garden in their backyard in California. He wouldn’t talk about it but my friend knew he was put in the camp in early 1940’s.

@Darth_Algar On top of that, the FDR administration’s antisemitic policies probably caused many more Jews to be killed. I hate FDR because of that and when I went to the FDR memorial in DC I spit on the ground.

https://brandeiscenter.com/the-truth-about-fdr-and-the-jews/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fTkA3dvpPM

Continentally speaking, it was when my mom & dad crossed over the Bering Land Bridge. ;-0

@Brian yeah. I’m really glad that happened :)

@Mimishu1995

Thanks.

You’re not the only one who was glad to see them leave Asia! ;-p

You native American @Brian1946?

I’ll give you two.

First, landing a man on the Moon. That’s the stuff man has been dreaming about since the beginning of time.

Second, President Washington willingly relinquishing the seat of power to a successor voted for by the people. Other nations marveled at this.