"We in this country, in this generation, are-- by destiny rather than by choice-- the watchmen on the walls of world freedom." Visiting the site of JFK's assassination, I found this memorial from a speech the president was scheduled to deliver the afternoon he was murdered. In JFK's never-delivered speech, he speaks of walls and the American people and exceptionalism. More than 50 years later, his "watchmen on the walls of world freedom" is replaced by a vision of Americans who build walls of fear and isolation.
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