burgess meredith got out and read a passage from ernie powell war correspondent. we won this war with great soldiers and great allies. we have blood in material abundance. we didn't win it because we are anything special. we should just be glad of the peace. that tone of humility was so striking on the day they won world war ii that i get home and turn on the tv and watch football and a quarterback tackled a wide receiver and does this victory dance for his great achievement and it occurred to me i have seen greater self puffery after a two yard game and then after world war ii. this is a change in culture of self-effacing and, no one is better than me and i'm nowhere better than anyone else to a culture of self celebration. the polling data used to support this, my favorite one is seniors in 1950, are you a very important person? 12% said yes. in 2005 after get your very important person and it was 80%. that is just a change. if you look at our math scores, 36th in math performance that number one in thinking we are really good at math. that is the change. this e