Two hundred and fifty years in, and the spirit still hasn't learned to sit down.
The country that declared its independence in 1776 wasn't supposed to last. Empires don't usually let that happen. But something about this particular experiment proved stubborn — surviving wars, depressions, divisions, and every generation that thought the whole thing might finally fall apart. Here we are at 250. Still rolling the dice. Still flying. The bones are old. The nerve never aged.
