The Panama Canal proves one lesson America needs now: never quit
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I transited the Panama Canal and discovered how Theodore Roosevelt's impossible dream became reality through determination and perseverance.
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The construction of the Canal was the largest and most expensive project ever undertaken at that point in human history. Nothing so massive, elaborate or systematic had ever been attempted before. The financial cost, combined with the human toll of more than 25,000 lives lost, was comparable to a war.
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