J.D. Howard: Defeats and dreams

Regarding Ned Barnett’s May 24 column “Grounding the American dream”: The American dream is alive and well, just not at Barnett’s desk. Only a socialist like Barnett could spin the Wright brothers’ story of heroic human triumph into a woe-is-me defeat.

Their story is distinctly American, and I believe dreams such as theirs still exist in all facets of American life.

This story was originally published May 30, 2015 at 1:10 PM with the headline "J.D. Howard: Defeats and dreams."