250 years of dream and nightmare
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Antoni Bassas
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Ara250 years of dream and nightmareara.catI belong to the generation of the child of Toy Story , that from one day to the next went from playing in the cowboys to be an astronaut. My heroes of Bonanza were sidelined by Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin. The United States had reached the pinnacle of Humanity's technological progress, and they were the best at explaining it. Despite the assassinations of the 60s and the disaster in Vietnam, the feat of Apollo 11 and the lesson of honesty from Watergate still kept the USA on its pedestal.
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