Manifest Destiny In 9/11/2001 America lost its innocence see Dies Irae, Dies Illa . It was then that the Ancient Mariner realized that a cycle of history that began with “Remember Pearl Harbor” was about to repeat. He began to relive the history of his youth when America was debating the need to overcome the Hitler regime in Europe and was surprised by December 7 1941. As this was reeling and re-reeling through his brain that strange mental phenomenon called déjà vu unfolded in the form of the life history of an ancestor Captain John Craven of the United States Navy. That now vivid tale of that Ancient Mariner began on January 25, 1898 with the loss of the Battleship Maine.
Remember the Maine

Remember Pearl Harbor

Remember Nine-Eleven