What Image Best Symbolizes the USA? Depending on individual's personal choices images can symbolize nations.  For example, in my opinion, examples could be that the Taj Mahal symbolizes India, a red maple leaf symbolizes Canada, a kangaroo symbolizes Australia.  There is no doubt in my mind that a nation's flag would symbolize that nation best perhaps in more cases than not, but...

Memories of Childhood and Youth  Sometimes my thoughts return to the days when I was a kid, a teenager, a young man, thinking back to where I was and remembering the home I grew up in, the neighbourhood, the schools I went to, the movie theatre, the stores.  I was born in St. Joseph Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario. When I was born, my parents lived above my maternal grandparents' shop....