February 11, 2012  We Must Remember, Too  By Mike Landry
License plates in Quebec have a slogan "Je souviens," French for
"I remember."  What do Quebecois remember?  Their French
heritage, surrounded by Anglophone North America.  Rooted in
language, religion, and their provincial legal system, Quebec
resisted the dominant English-Protestant Canadian culture to the
point of coming very close to breaking away as a separate nation
in 1995.  Within the United States is a growing movement of
people who -- while we haven't articulated a slogan like the
Quebecois -- also remember.  Je souviens.  I  remember a can-do
nation that routinely accomplished the impossible: a nation that
defeated dictators then rebuilt the conquered countries into
economic powerhouses, a nation that introduced -- and exported
-- the highest standard of living the world has ever known, a
nation that righted its injustices, sent men to the moon,
completed through its interstate highway system the largest
public works project ever, developed