When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things.
The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war.
When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.
First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
Everything that has happened in my life is because of good government and because the United States of America was the greatest nation on the face of the earth.
Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.
It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.
I know that when I talk to my parents and my friends, there's a strong feeling of the world out of control and damaged.
When I get out across the country and listen to people, the resentment that I see and the frustration that I see is that we have a generation of people who are fairly convinced that their kids are not going to have a better quality of life or a better future than they will.