Geration gap

What brought this to mind was that I heard a TSarg give a speech about Conditions in Iraq. The purpose of the talke was to talk parents into letting their sons or daughters sign up for the Army. What he said was the gravy over their - places like Mcdonalds etc there for the troops. I am not saying some of that is not true but he was a propragandist for the US Army. Later in the conversation that I and someother from the Post discussed . one question was whether we should have a draft as they can not get people to volunteer for the army regardless how much money is offered as bonus- the the question is all the money will not bring a dead body back to earth. So who wants to die. Anyway we also talked about the abilities of the present group who have to be babied in the service or at least some of them. Anyway he talked about even the difference in first time he went in and now with the modern day troops. He was the one who brought up the fact - there was a generation gap. The fact is what is wrong is our school system and the education system. Grade school teachers considers all the young adults ignorand and unable to learn. I wonder who is ignorant maybe it is our grade school teachers. I thought about the so call generation gap and it is the difference in how my generation had grade school and the present crop of young people. I ask the Sgt if he had hear of the Autro-Hungarian empire and that is no longer taught. If for nothin else this goes back to the 1st world war that is no longer taught in school. I use to have such things in grade school. If the education system treats these young people as ignorant then that is what is turned out. The reason we are getting less and less of Engineers coming out of college ( I am talking about native born not foreign students) is our grade schools. Again I was surprised in the private conversation that we had again the generation gap. If we are to keep this country going we have to change our school. Last but not least - if we are to go to war then we have to have the draft if we are going to have the country behind the militiary. The so call volunteer army where huge amounts of money is offered for college expenses is not really volunteer army. It was an interesting day this 4 of July. Since I never get any comments back I really do not know if anyone reads this and I guess it relievs the mind. Luck to the troops DON