Often the youth of our country are the targets of criticism by members of the older generation, such as myself. Well of course, sweeping generalities like those are dangerous and usually silly. During the time I spent in Moorhead a few weeks ago I was completely in awe of the display of hard work and excellent attitude displayed by the youth of that area. A lot of the “kids” weren’t even from Moorhead, but were there going to school. Regardless of why they were there, one could argue, they were a significant factor in the dikes being built as quickly as they were in order to fend off the rapid rise of the Red River. Of course there were a lot of people that did a lot of work, but there was literally an army of High School and College aged kids that worked from dawn till dusk in support of the dike building process. It was impressive to witness first-hand.
So take heart all you worry warts, America’s future seems to be in good hands, from what I saw in Moorhead.
Below is a picture taken on Monday, March 30th of a dike building effort in process. Note all of the younger generation folks hard at work.
