My generation went to the moon.

[Victor_c3]

27. I wasn't born until 1980 so I wasn't alive then

But when I look at our history going to the moon is one of the achievements we have done that I'm most proud of. It did so much to tell the rest of the world that "we are capable of anything" and at the same time helped to give all people the gift of showing that anything is possible. Those are the sorts of achievements we need more of, not more military conquest. Thinking about that time just puts me in awe.

It's been nearly 50 years and still no other country has been able to top that achievement. What does that say about us? What, as a nation or a planet would we say when the first humans step foot on Mars or another planet? It'll be the same sort of proud achievement.

Something that really upsets me is that in the 1990s we were talking about building a $12 billion super-collider that would have been powerful enough to discover the Higgs Boson. Nope, we were told it was too expensive. Instead the government blew that money on stupid stealth bombers and aircraft carriers. That sort of thing infuriates me. We as Americans could have owned that discovery. Instead, we gave it away to someone else.

We should be placing our honor on people who explore and discover, not on some pointless military "achievement".