I am sure we could tear everyone down without much effort, and every person memorialized with a statue or a day has warts.  That isn't the point--we celebrate them for the amazing things they did.  Do we reject MLK because he was unfaithful to his wife?  Should we pass on Lincoln because he only freed slaves in the unoccupied south--a calculated political move?  Our collective heritage of imperfect people doing amazing things, like Columbus leading the voyage of those three tiny ships into the unknown, should be celebrated, and still is all across North and South America.  I wish we spent more time finding heroes to inspire us to greatness rather than tearing everything down.