GIVING THANKS – AT 10:26 A.M. ET:  All of us can list the things we are thankful for on this day.  We might all consider adding things that aren't on the traditional lists.

Let me add my own:  I think we should be thankful for many, many wonderful kids in our younger generation.  It's easy to disparage the young.  Every older generation does it.  But when you consider the volunteers in our all-volunteer military, and what they have sacrificed, we must be grateful to them.  In fact, all over America there are young people are aren't on drugs, who don't rush to anti-American demonstrations, and who contribute to their communities every day.

I'm thinking specifically of a small group of veterans and ROTC cadets who, once a week, raise the flag at Columbia University.  Columbia doesn't permit ROTC, so these cadets get their training at other schools.  I'm sure their weekly gesture of patriotism is ridiculed by the "sophisticates" around them.  But these veterans and cadets are the real sophisticates, the ones with a mature understanding of the world and their responsibilities within it. 

So, on this Thanksgiving, let's add the good members of the coming generation to our list of things for which we are thankful.  They deserve it. 

November 25, 2010