Posted on May 4, 2018

Should You Live For Your Resume Or Your Eulogy?, by David Brooks

Lt Col Charlie Brown

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Lots of complaints about today's young people (I do it too) but are we teaching them what they really need to know to be complete individuals. We not only don't teach character skills, we don't allow them in the classroom anymore. Compassion, kindness, caring, dependability, etc. We value them but we focus on other things....however, there is one place I do think we teach both, and that is in a good military unit. Maybe that's the reason we find so much to admire in the best of us.

Should You Live For Your Resume Or Your Eulogy?, by David Brooks

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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen

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Excellent share. I agree that there is so much that used to be routine school work that isn't taught anymore. Caring for and helping others is definitely at the top of the list. Everything taught these days, both in and after school, is about what you must do for yourself, not what can help society and the community in general. You are spot on that the military is a place where people can learn compassion, kindness, caring, dependability, etc. but the problem is such a small percentage of the population is ever exposed to the military. This lack of awareness on these issues has slowly crept into our society, one only needs to look at the craziness in the political world to see this. The me before all else attitudes that are becoming more and more prevalent are slowly tearing apart the American values that we knew and saw in our youth.

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