Saying payment for past crimes is ludicrous, or it's time to move on, or the present generation was neither victim or criminal is part of the problem with the great American psyche. We've never once been held accountable for our wanton destruction of native land and culture, or our global expansion at the behest of commercial interest. The doctrines and policies of the U.S. were built on the arrogant and bigoted notions of destiny, and cultural, if not racial, superiority.

The question is more symbolic (actaully more timeless) than practical. If you dismiss the question as unfair, untimely or irrelevant, then I humbly suggest you're missing the point.