There are no less than 60 cities, towns, and counties named after Christopher Columbus in the United States, not the least of which is our nation’s capital, the District of Columbia and, somewhat ironically, a current hotbed of anti-Western thought in America’s vaunted system of higher-education, Columbia University.
Given the sacrifices made by the heirs to that first revolution to secure the human freedom here and abroad, it is little wonder that the very traits that defined Columbus as a man – ambition, fearlessness, a yearning for discovery and human progress – came to define a newly born and restless nation of dreamers and pioneers, the United States.