The only thing I can think of that is quite nearly as odd is the persistant glorification of things to do with war and the "masters" thereof. I really hate to enter a town I have never before seen and find myself greeted by some huge cannon left over from some war or other. It just isn't friendly. Is that sort of thing only done in the U.S.? I am also fairly certain that at least two thirds of the statues I have seen throughout the USA are memorializing some warrior or other. What does all this say about us?