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New Orleans has broken before. Floods. Failures. Promises that didn’t hold.
It’s still here – not because it never broke, but because people kept building anyway.
That’s what I think about as America turns 250. Durability isn’t inherited. It is chosen, generation by generation. Each one takes a place shaped by those before and adds its own hand.
This city’s future is not in its monuments. It’s in a business that is opening its doors, a kid in a classroom, a block someone refuses to give up on.
We honor 250 years by building the next. What are you building to last?
– Scott Hutcheson, Executive Director, E Pluribus Unum