I'm feeling a bit nostalgic and depressed.  Honestly, I think the American spirit has passed in my lifetime.  Perhaps it will make a last gasp or two in the future.  Indeed, it could prevail.  I don't think I will live to see those final moments of American doitiveness.

Our bureaucracy is to large.  We are no longer ruled by a limited and tepid government with specific mandates, but by a sprawling, unruly bureaucracy whose only interest is in maintaining their own existence.

I will never again see the day when youngsters played on the shale cliffs and built a dam across the swollen river during spring melts.  From now on it's kevlar helmets and 10 year-olds in car seats.

Young as I am, I miss the good old days.  No longer shall we learn from our mistakes.  That is, not until we repeat them.

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