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It's nice to tell stories, but don't get stuck in them. The United States is stuck in its stories, as is every country or tribe. [We should rather use stories as metaphoric scaffolding, such that when you take it down, the structure is repaired and is still standing, as opposed to just a scaffold around a movie set, which both eventually get taken down. A building could be built on that same spot, and people will always prefer the temporary one that was there. Some people believe it was an actual building and recall its interior, when it was all artifice. The Brady Bunch house is an example: People loved the story of the Brady Family, such that someone eventually bought the Brady house and made it look like a movie set on the inside. In 10 or 20 years, most of the cast members will have died, yet people can visit the house as a "memory theater". Everything eventually becomes a Memory Theater, a place where you can get stuck in the myths, tropes, etc].