GI Special 4G5: "I'd Like Your Blessing" - July 5, 2006

Thomas F. Barton

My generation is one in which there are still many living veterans. Furthermore, from our generation primarily come the children who make up the current blood and guts of America's military with its duty of defending the American Constitution, Country and Citizens.If our children - or their children - come to us when considering enlistment or a commission, asking our reaction or even our blessing for their willingness to sign the bottom line, are we ready to speak honestly with them?Have the things we've taught them about citizenship and patriotism come back to gratify us? ...or haunt us?

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