[RegulatorCountry]

"If your country needs someone, then they serve...that's if they have honor and respect."

The concept of honor is fading in much of the populace, sadly, and respect has been warped and Bowdlerized into some weird combination of unearned esteem and fear. There will come a day, when reinstituting the draft will be necessary, and I'm concerned that any sense of duty has been so thoroughly undermined, that we will have a problem on our hands. I'd love to be proved wrong, when that day comes.

[oneamericanvoice]

Then the weak will flee to Canada or some other haven, and it will be like separating the wheat from the chaff. Good riddence!

I know it seems like it is fading, but I'm not so pessimistic. If you have any time to mentor, or be involved with young people, here's an opportunity to turn that around. There is a saying, "If not me, who? If not now, when?"

[redangus]

My sentiments exactly. Very well put.