America 08: Monuments

Many older cultures have an oral tradition, a history passed down by word of mouth and storytelling. With each retelling, the story changes, until it becomes myth and legend. America, though, was born to a different time. Its is a visual tradition, where nothing happens without leaving a mark, preferably a big one. This history doesn't change in each generation so much as magnify and multiply, monuments upon monuments, until the founding fathers were God's chosen messengers, sent down from Mount Vernon with amendments on graven tablets. America is a country telling its own story, and when that story reaches its own retelling the storyteller just keeps going, but louder.