the war again was to claim American blood, and far more of it—at Pearl Harbor. Thus, the time of creating a Shrine of Democracy was brought to an end, and the time of fighting to preserve democracy was begun. How long our present American democracy may yet endure, or even if it can endure, no one can say. But however long it does endure, the mountain-carved monument to its beginnings will endure also … Mount Rushmore.
