Hello. You didn't attach the poem or even say the title of the poem, which makes it impossible for me to answer your question accurately, but I will help you as much as I can by showing you how to find your answer.
The simile makes comparisons between elements that have different contexts, but that has a characteristic between both that can be related creating a new meaning and concept between one of these elements. In other words, the simile aims to show a concept shared between two different elements. This type of comparison, within a poem, can create a message pattern, where the entire poem is aimed at maintaining the tone that the simile projected during the comparison.
An example of this can be seen in the phrase "My heart fell in life like a star wounded by a hunter's arrow," where the hunter's heart and arrow are different elements, but promote the feeling of pain and sadness when compared.
 
        
             
        
        
        
Failure allows you to learn that making mistakes is contrary for you to learn how to avoid making mistakes like that again. You can't avoid something if you don't even know where it's coming from, so you need to make the mistake of not avoiding it to know how to avoid it next time.
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
Answer: Americans should follow the example set by the crew.
Explanation:
Based on this excerpt, President Reagan most likely believed that Americans should follow the example set by the crew.
This can be deduced when President Reegan stated that the Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them. This shows that the example set by the Crew should be followed. 
 
        
             
        
        
        
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