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Scott, may I elaborate on your comment? My father was born in 1923, the last of seven kids. At age six, his family experienced the beginning of the Great Depression. My grandfather was an insurance salesman. His company went belly up. He scraped whatever employment he could to feed his family, and often times went without eating, because he refused to eat until everyone else was fed. This INCLUDED begging hobos that showed up at his door!!!

When WW2 happened, my father and his brothers eagerly enlisted. They believed in their country and felt compelled to serve it, even though in their childhoods they experienced hunger, cold winter nights, inadequate schooling conditions (they all went on to college and paid for it themselves), never any spare change...they were GAME ON to fight for their country! My father was a tailgunner in a B-25 bomber. He got shot down in his first flight over Germany. There were 11 men on the plane. 6 died...5 escaped, barely, only to be captured once on ground by the Germans and held in a concentration camp until the Russians invaded and then they were marched throughout Eurpope until liberation day, July 19th, 1945. My father experienced things he WILL NOT talk about, and I respect that, but he also tells of the HELL of the march, and he still doesn't regret serving his country.

THAT'S what we're missing in today's society. My father, who was 40 when I was born (my mother is 13 years younger) decided that my life should be kinder and easier. So what did I do for my kids? Made THEIRS kinder and easier! They wouldn't know how to grow a crop (unless it was POT) or fight their way out of a paper bag!!! My 18-year-old is still asking me to fix her dinner plate! WTF???

The Golden Generation is long gone, and in its place, a bunch of uneducated, belligerent, self-absorbed, delusional, helpless kids that have NO CLUE how to be good people, good, giving citizens, or how to survive. THESE are our leaders of tomorrow!!!