<p>In my travels around the world, it is much like it is here. The more mature members of a society remember and are aware of the atrocities of the 20th century. They know what America fought for, how the world would be very different today if it were not for American bravery, etc. and they appreciate US.</p>
<p>Just as we have seen demonstrated endlessly on these threads, it is the young that do not appreicate what they have. Siting on a chair in front of a computer, having stood and fought for nothing, no experience with sacrifice, no hardship in their lives, the young, too frequently, believe the world to be a different place than it is.</p>
<p>When you visit Normandy, Arlington Cemetery, the Vietnam Memorial, when you consider the young lives that did not become old, it is a very humbling experience. [Especially for us boomers for whom military service was not an attractive option during the late 60s and most of the seventies.] That is, if you have any sense at all. Otherwise, you just sit at your desk and tip-tap away at a computer and think that you, somehow, contribute to solving the world’s problems, when, in fact, you have contributed nothing and taken very much.</p>