[Mama_Bear]

Ballparks are full of parents watching children and people know the words to the National Anthem.

Your words bring to mind a heartwarming 'Norman Rockwell' picture of America at her best. This is a very good thing.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Call us backwards but we still have kids who proclaim in high school or college that they plan to join the military when they graduate. These are not poor kids they are middle class. I raised two conservative children in the public school system (public schools have money woes right now but that is a cycle). My kids now have BS degrees and the youngest starts graduate school in fall. They have made me proud everyday of their lives. I have nieces and nephews who went to PS in other states and it took a lot of effort to decommie them when got out.