Amir, I think that was well spoken, or written, as it were. And, I am definately and old man. I have a tremendous amount of contempt and anger about what goes on in this country. Some times that shows too much. I should have never touched this subject.
Denis, that's probably true. When I went to school, it was common for kids to skip a grade and graduate at 17, sometimes 16. I graduated at 17 but never skipped. At 18, when I was at that age, Uncle Sam snapped you up and sent you to Viet Nam. It seemed old at the time. Old enough to die, which some of my friends did. I still can't associate 18, war and death with high school. Most of us at least got started in college before Sam was breathing down your neck. If you didn't maintain at least a 2.0, goodbye and hello US Army.
Maybe that's where I get all these provincial attitudes. BTW, I didn't fight in Nam. I was flyin' heliocopters with G.W. Bush in AL
