okay
um well i guess first of all i i could have asked that before do you have children
no
no okay because i i didn't know if that would make a difference in how you felt um what what do you think about the proposal that all young Americans should spend a year or two
yeah
i think it's a good idea i think everybody should should uh
put in their time so to speak for the
for the good of the the nation and for the good of themselves i think it's uh would everyone everyone grow up and mature and and realize what this country's all about
yeah
i just um
i guess that's my
that's something that my family has always believed strongly in and um
i had opportunities in high school
to work in some programs um
did you oh
and and i agree with what you said that it's
uh it benefits the person doing it so much i don't think they realize and i uh
uh-huh
i i think it gives you a better perspective on life and uh it gives you a little bit uh more a glimpse of the the real world and and it would certainly help the country too uh
yeah
really
yeah i think that's probably like uh quite a few things that that the kids uh maybe not so much nowadays but used to go through you know they just they were they did things for people
yeah
yes
you know for their communities for their their uh families for their friends where now i'm not sure they really do
yeah well i think sometimes through groups and organizations um
my first when i first thought of it i thought it uh when they asked the question i thought well that sounds wonderful and then i wondered if people were unwilling but
but i think even if you went in with a negative attitude i don't think it would stay negative very long um
but i do know through some organized groups like Scouts and church um
um-hum
they do still have opportunities
yeah that's probably true
but i i think that's a small uh
number
that could
you know but even even through those groups groups do you think that they participate as much as maybe they used to
no um not since um
not as much as i remember growing up and that was something
uh
i think in the fifties and sixties um seemed more common in the last two decades
um-hum
yeah i think that's probably true
but
i think it's probably more true still still in the in the smaller communities then in the larger cities
yes
yeah where uh where abouts do you live what part of the country
well i live in Richardson right now which is just
oh okay we're in Plano so we're not far apart one of the calls i'd gotten before was uh down to Austin and and i know
right yeah okay sure
a friend of mine talked to someone in the midwest so i know there is the possibility that it could be out of the area
yeah
gosh i hadn't even thought about it being out of the area but you're right
yeah but i grew up in a real small town in Florida
oh
i mean a real small town
and uh i think it was just
of course it was back in the in the fifties and i think it was real prevalent back then i i think people thought more of others than they do now you know
yeah
as far as doing things for them and and then gaining benefits from it
well and maybe um maybe this would be a way to get that feeling back um if we've lost some of that and it it seems in the last decade or two um
that's true maybe that's a way
if if young people had to do it um
uh-huh
maybe that would start the trend back because that's one of the things i always
thought was a wonderful part of our country um
yeah i do to i do to
is helping others
i'm not sure that that today's kids would go for it though i think you would have to start younger
yeah
you know i i don't know how young you'd have to go but i think by the time they're oh early teenagers anyway i think it's too late now at least around here um
yeah i think uh
i think it does help um even preschoolers you know they're um things even just starting around the home you know little ones can do a little bit to help the family
right
um-hum
and and just watching the parents do things too um it can start a pattern there's always something no matter how young and then that helps
develop that attitude um i guess i would really like to see this happen with families more you know i think this is certainly a possible way um to handle it but
i wish ah that's something that i think that has been lost in families and i think that's a good place to start again
uh yeah i would have to start in the families first because if you don't it for your for your own immediate family your sure not going to do it for anybody else
yeah
and i do think um the schools do try and do something even with food drives and um
sometimes what Richardson and Plano both i mean when you live in areas like that where there's so much they don't realize what a small percentage of the world that is i mean that's uh
uh-huh
gosh i'm sure not even one percent of the world is as fortunate as these areas and uh
that's probably true that's probably true
it's i know our church youth group um starts with projects young but they they have a high school group that works in the Appalachia area every year they've done this for fourteen years now
um-hum
oh that's great
um and it is it's um
and they've also see that there's there's a different way of life and those families are really close some of the things that we talked about that were common in the fifties are still there and um
um-hum
it really every youth that's ever gone really has felt that their life has been changed and it's changed their perspective and
and that's just the two two weeks during during the summer so if two weeks um could have that kind of effect i would
um-hum
well that's that's great i'm glad that there are still some areas that
think uh
that that get the youth involved in that sort of thing you know like i said i think it does
well that's
even even a small amount of exposure can make a vast difference in their attitudes
yes
well
well i guess um
did you have anything else that
no i i guess that's about all okay
okay well i i enjoyed talking with you
well good talking with you
and i hope you have a good evening thanks bye bye
you too okay bye
