ORIGINAL: LittleChief
................but I remember a time and a place where you could count on a total stranger to render assistance to someone in need. People waved "hello" to total strangers they met on the highway. I joined the Navy in 1981 when I was 17. Now, I've seen more of the world than I haven't seen, and I've never seen anything to change my feelings thatwe, as Americans, are the luckiest people in the world. We have rights and freedoms that people in so many other countries can't begin to fathom, and so many Americans take them for granted,take advantage of them or just generally spit on them.