"If you were to stand on the corner of any town of any size and ask passersby what thier opinion of the war is, they would not have an opinion. Most young folks would not know what you are referring to."

Frank, that is what so disconcerts me about the state of education today. Everybody worries, but no one does anything to solve the problem. So much time is spent teaching PC subjects and feel good courses that there is no time left to actually learn. When I went to school we had spelling a half hour a day. When I studied English I learned to diagram a sentence, to the point I passed first year college English by taking a test.

Now, I see college graduates who cannot write a simple declarative sentence.

I was blessed to have a high school history teacher who instilled in us a love for our past. I was able to pass that along to my daughter. She reads voraciously; not always history. She can also write. She writes poetry.

When she was in school, we were part of the PTA, and knew what she was being taught. Now, parents seem to have no interest in what their children do, or learn.

Young people in the WTBS era, when they had an opportunity to learn, were very eloquent in the things they wrote. Even those who colud barely write were sometimes poetic in the descriptions of the ordeal they were suffering.

People today don't even know who the Vice President is. I have no answers, but the situation begs for a solution. Stan