Some words for the fourth of July should be left though, just doing a short memo for later, the highlight of National mall is not only Smithonians but Monuments of the western side, Lincoln place is kind of the sacred place like the temple of the gods, reminding of the period of Greek, Rome, which of before this temple is the monuments for the soldiers participated in the Korean War, Vietnam War.
That means the Wars conducted by the US at least after WWII is in the line of the virtues of the US, freedom, Justice, Peace...it's linked to the controversy that the competition with the USSR toward the similar virtue but different from their own.... later...