Here, Joe is at the site of a cataclysmic historical event. But this event was really the moment when the word “American” changed into something bigger and much better than it had ever been before. Let’s call this a “Linguistic Expansionary Event,” just to make it sound official and sophisticated.
Read more here: http://www.petrulionis.net/2013/05/the-place-where-us-became-american.html
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