What “glorious” chapters, Ken?

Section of a downloaded from social media. Additions are in red by me.

Originally published in my Facebook post on November 27 2021. Republished here with edits.

Ken Burns thinks there have been “glorious” chapters in US history. This is what he said:

“Being an American means reckoning with a history fraught with violence and injustice. Ignoring that reality in favor of mythology is not only wrong but also dangerous. The dark chapters of American history have just as much to teach us, if not more, than the glorious ones, and often the two are intertwined.”

I’d like to ask him which chapters he considers to be “glorious”?

Does he mean WWII? My people fought that war and paid for it from the very beginning to the very end, unlike the USA. The USA hung out from 1939 to 1941 selling weapons to both the Nazis and the British, playing both sides of fascists, and had to be forced into actually fighting white men by the Japanese in December of 1941.

So…maybe Ken is talking about the Moon landing? That only happened by importing German scientists from WWII into NASA whose innovations often came from appropriating and corrupting ancient sciences from Hindus and Buddhists (stemming from a German racist obsession with India). The Indians were totally erased from the record, of course, just like they were erased…