My family and I watched a tremendous Netflix documentary this weekend called “Miracle: The Boys of ‘80.” It’s about the U.S. Men’s Olympic hockey team that defeated the Soviet Union and won the gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics. (Caution for language.)
The pride those young American men had for America was obvious every second of the documentary. When they were competing on the ice, they knew they were representing the greatest nation on earth. Their incredible victory over the Soviets inspired the entire nation at a time when we were locked into President Jimmy Carter’s malaise.
Of course, Ronald Reagan is not mentioned in the Netflix movie. But Carter’s recession, the Iran hostage crisis, gas lines, sky-high inflation, and growing unemployment were not glossed over.