We also have a significant amount of maintained and/or restored equipment, since that was always an American thing. We have far more museum ships than anyone else in the world, there are many railroads that maintain old steam engines that still make runs (even if it is a special excursions instead of dedicated revenue service), restored cars are practically boring for how common they are, etc.

Sure, people got angry over destroyed statues. But if anyone ever tried to damage something like USS Missouri, it would have ended far worse for them.