A long time ago, in a childhood stock portfolio, this SLF/attorney owned two (2) shares of common stock of GE. Bought with birthday present money and paper route earnings. Because Popular Science ran an article in those kid-hood years about GE building the engines for the mid-1960s SST. (And because a parent thought that teaching a kid about investing in blue-chip enterprises might be a worthwhile pathway of parenting.)
In 1974 I traveled to Boston, just to see the first arrival of the "British-French" Concorde. No point in posturing to this audience, this SLF never really got over the absence of a U.S.-built SST. Not that such a sentiment makes sense, but there it is.
It's not a reason at all for anyone to change their thinking, about all the myriad and varied reasons another SST project is pointless, futile, unrealistic totally. It was just part of one human individual being's long-term, intense interest in airplanes and aviation, but big whup, so what? But let's do find something about travel by air that can capture the imagination of a youngster, and maybe in that person's lifetime and eventual future career, some good can be derived from it.