Al, my kids and their kids are better than the generation of kids I grew up with. I don't know how to account for it. When there's something to fight for I've noticed they are there, not leaving it to their parents and grampys.

Most kids look at us sideways when we say we're hunting and fishing and killing the creatures we love. They don't get the notion of taking wildlife and eating it. They know it will pass as generations move along. They bide their time.

The issue is what they fight for. Wildlife and wilderness, preserving it for future generations, sends them to the barricades. Dinks telling telling them what's good for them, they don't like, either. They're doing their thinking for themselves.

I'm 75, Al. I've seen the best of it. What you're talking about is gone. A scimitar of concrete and highways is covering eastern North America, nearly so in the U.S. Southwest running out of water. They call it progress. Maybe it is.

The traditions of their fathers, however, are no longer seen as wholesome to a growing number of them. I don't disagree with them. We did the best we could with what we knew but a whole generation has grown up with different values.

Regards, King

Last edited by King Brown; 06/24/07 04:45 PM.