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What makes a country great is the moral fabric of its citizens. To me, morality has many components: work ethic, character, respect for fellow citizens and the love of one's country.
"The Greatest Generation" is leaving us. Some Sundays, I find myself reading their obituaries in The Bee, and I think, who will replace them? Today's younger generation has many material things that they never have really paid for, easy access to credit cards and public assistance. They also don't have to worry about a draft anymore.
I don't blame this generation for anything; they are just a product of our present culture. But a bygone culture did exist and it produced a generation of Americans who grew up on farms, weathered the Great Depression and fought and sacrificed in World War II. The ones who came back home went to college on the GI Bill and became successful and innovative business entrepreneurs who made America the economic power in the 1950s and 1960s.
Who will replace them? Bring back the family unit, get kids away from the Internet and TV, and have them work physically demanding jobs during summers. Also, make two years of military service mandatory.
Mark Caglia
