Like ante-bellum America before the Civil War, which could not address directly and explicitly the pressing question of slavery and the meaning of racism in the American body politic, post-bellum America after the Vietnam War could not and to this day still cannot address directly and explicitly the question of honor and the meaning of citizenship as the submission of the subject's will to the sovereign's desire, and the submission of the subject's desire to the sovereign's will. We can't get that conversation on the table and it's eating up the soul of the country before our very eyes. What's missing is the role of the mediating centrist institutions.
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