From November 4th, 1979, until January 20th, 1981, the bitter taste of impotence coated my mouth as CBS’s Walter Cronkite counted, night after night, the mounting days that fifty-two American hostages were held captive in Tehran.

I remember those 444 days as if they were yesterday. I grieved for the blindfolded hostages—and for a nation that felt humiliated, diminished.

I kept asking myself: Would America ever........

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