Originally broadcast on CHED radio - Date unknown

You hear and read a great deal these days about the lack of moral fiber in our teenagers. Papers and magazines chronicle the antics of these young people and predict terrible ends for an entire generation. I read these reports with a grain of salt. At age 40 I can sort of stand in the middle and look both forward and backward. I can easily remember the things that were written and said about the youngsters with whom I went to school. We t0o were a "lost" generation and yet when the bugle sounded the same young men who had been involved in street brawls; who had kept the Parsons daughter out till two; who had "borrowed" a fellows car without his knowledge; who had got a little high on Saturday night; these same boys acquitted themselves rather well. They died on the beaches and in the cockpits and on the high seas like the brave young man they were. Like today's youngsters we were looking for a cause and a cause we found. I feel sure that today's teenagers, if they are called upon to serve, will distinguish themselves as did my generation. Our only prayer should be that the call is to the service and betterment, rather than the destruction of mankind.