Mkst kids today don’t have the same kind of patriotism instilled in them as all of us did.
We all believed the Kennedy statement of “ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”
Also we now have the “time out” generation as the bulk of our military age men and women and those who can’t tell the difference.
Today anyone with JFK's political and social views is not welcome in the democrat party.
And if the democrats could get their hands on him they would lock him up in the Jan-6 Gulag.
Or worse.
Then "most kids today" are a heck of lot smarter than all of you were. Fighting, and potentially dying, for the benefit of the Military-Industrial Complex, and for a political elite who actually despises you, is a fool's errand.
"Patriotism," as you seem to envision it, is rancid idolatry.