The real version is harder to hold.

It requires knowing more history — the history of the Akimel O’odham, the history of federal Indian policy, the specific story of the Gila River water.

It requires sitting with ambiguity — the fact that Hayes was a patriot who served his country and also someone who had reason to know that his country had not kept its promises to his people.

It requires seeing him as a full human being rather than as a figure in a photograph.