There are times when I feel like an anachronism.
A man out of his time.
A product of a bygone era.
But I offer no apologies.
I grew up in an age where we were taught to believe there was nothing America could not do.
And we were right.As John Winger put it, we’re Americans, with a capital “A.
“That means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.
We are the wretched refuse.
An industrial might that became the envy of the world.
Innovated new inventions that changed the course of human history.
And no one’s been back since.
Who gave the human race blue jeans, Rock ‘n Roll,the 1968 Ford Mustang GT 2+2 FastbackandBaywatch?
But somewhere along the way, this whole concept of American Exceptionalism fell out of fashion.
Worse, it became ridiculed.
Dismissed by our supposed political and cultural leaders.
Denounced by our academics as xenophobic.
And we took three of them.
A JFK once put it, the torch has been passed to a new generation.
Skating legends whose names join their mighty company.
There were so many great moments on the TD Garden ice, one barely knows where to begin.
So let’s take them in chronological order.
Alysa Liu, after taking a couple of years off, laced the skates up again.
It’ll never happen.
He is to Skating in the mid-2020s what Mike Tyson was to boxing in the late ’80s.
So these are the athletes we are sending to Milan next winter to represent us.
America is BACK, baby.
Doing the things we do better than anyone else.
Taking back what is rightfully ours.
Here’s to the Army and Navy and the battles they have won.
Here’s to America’s colors, the colors that never run.
May the wings of liberty never lose a feather.
