“America was not built on fear,” President Harry Truman once said. “America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to get the job done.” When we examine the last part of that quotation—“an unbeatable determination to get the job done”—we may recollect some of the enormous tasks undertaken by Americans in the past century: the building of the Hoover Dam, the winning of World War II, and the Apollo flights to the moon. Certainly, we can all take pride in those grand accomplishments. They came at a great cost of effort, money, and in the case of the war, of lives. Those involved in these endeavors deserve our everlasting gratitude for what they achieved. But what about our everyday workers, the unnoticed men and women who toil at various jobs? The loan officer at our bank; the guy who builds brick walls; the mechanic who comes home …