Music starts
"Mommas don't let your babies grow up to be Lawyers,
Make em be Cowboys, Bikers, Soldiers and such...."
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Sorry! I couldn't help it.
I believe that the current batch of youths will be just fine. While I was in Iraq my Daughter signed up for high school USMC JROTC, I was both proud as well as concerned. No she did not run off to join the Marines when she turned 18, she is in college one year ahead of her peers because she took college level classes while in high school. Good kid and no I did not put her up to any of it. Hard working, studious, and patriotic. She and her peers are as good a generation as any.