And here, gentle reader, is a metaphor showing how the West was won. Or how it was lost--it depends on your point of view.

A red-white-and-blue Federal Express (FED) pushed aside anyone in its way. They became the EX. Supply your own moral judgment, but this is pretty much what happened.

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51-foot tall "Standing Brave" is by Wade Leslie and guards a travel center (truck stop) off I-44. Rt 66 is several miles away. A FedEx truck, pulling two trailers, has just come off the Turnpike and turned in front of the steel and fiberglass statue. The truck appears to be going west because, on maps, west is left.

www.bigcabintravelplaza.com/brave.html.