[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] um well I guess first of all I I could have asked that before do you have children
[speaker001:] no
[speaker002:] no okay because I I didn't know if that would make a difference in how you felt um what what do you think about the proposal that all young Americans should spend a year or two
[speaker001:] yeah I think it's a good idea I think everybody should should uh put in their time so to speak for the for the good of the the nation and for the good of themselves I think it's uh would everyone everyone grow up and mature and and realize what this country's all about
[speaker002:] yeah I just um I guess that's my that's something that my family has always believed strongly in and um I had opportunities in high school to work in some programs um
[speaker001:] did you oh
[speaker002:] and and I agree with what you said that it's uh it benefits the person doing it so much I don't think they realize and I uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] I I think it gives you a better perspective on life and uh it gives you a little bit uh more a glimpse of the the real world and and it would certainly help the country too uh
[speaker001:] yeah really yeah I think that's probably like uh quite a few things that that the kids uh maybe not so much nowadays but used to go through you know they just they were they did things for people
[speaker002:] yeah yes
[speaker001:] you know for their communities for their their uh families for their friends where now I'm not sure they really do
[speaker002:] yeah well I think sometimes through groups and organizations um my first when I first thought of it I thought it uh when they asked the question I thought well that sounds wonderful and then I wondered if people were unwilling but but I think even if you went in with a negative attitude I don't think it would stay negative very long um but I do know through some organized groups like Scouts and church um
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] they do still have opportunities
[speaker001:] yeah that's probably true
[speaker002:] but I I think that's a small uh number that could
[speaker001:] you know but even even through those groups groups do you think that they participate as much as maybe they used to
[speaker002:] no um not since um not as much as I remember growing up and that was something uh I think in the fifties and sixties um seemed more common in the last two decades
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah I think that's probably true
[speaker002:] but
[speaker001:] I think it's probably more true still still in the in the smaller communities then in the larger cities
[speaker002:] yes yeah where uh where abouts do you live what part of the country
[speaker001:] well I live in Richardson right now which is just
[speaker002:] oh okay we're in Plano so we're not far apart one of the calls I'd gotten before was uh down to Austin and and I know
[speaker001:] right yeah okay sure
[speaker002:] a friend of mine talked to someone in the midwest so I know there is the possibility that it could be out of the area
[speaker001:] yeah gosh I hadn't even thought about it being out of the area but you're right yeah but I grew up in a real small town in Florida
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] I mean a real small town and uh I think it was just of course it was back in the in the fifties and I think it was real prevalent back then I I think people thought more of others than they do now you know
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] as far as doing things for them and and then gaining benefits from it
[speaker002:] well and maybe um maybe this would be a way to get that feeling back um if we've lost some of that and it it seems in the last decade or two um that's true maybe that's a way if if young people had to do it um
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] maybe that would start the trend back because that's one of the things I always thought was a wonderful part of our country um
[speaker001:] yeah I do to I do to
[speaker002:] is helping others
[speaker001:] I'm not sure that that today's kids would go for it though I think you would have to start younger
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] you know I I don't know how young you'd have to go but I think by the time they're oh early teenagers anyway I think it's too late now at least around here um
[speaker002:] yeah I think uh I think it does help um even preschoolers you know they're um things even just starting around the home you know little ones can do a little bit to help the family
[speaker001:] right um-hum
[speaker002:] and and just watching the parents do things too um it can start a pattern there's always something no matter how young and then that helps develop that attitude um I guess I would really like to see this happen with families more you know I think this is certainly a possible way um to handle it but I wish ah that's something that I think that has been lost in families and I think that's a good place to start again
[speaker001:] uh yeah I would have to start in the families first because if you don't it for your for your own immediate family your sure not going to do it for anybody else
[speaker002:] yeah and I do think um the schools do try and do something even with food drives and um sometimes what Richardson and Plano both I mean when you live in areas like that where there's so much they don't realize what a small percentage of the world that is I mean that's uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] gosh I'm sure not even one percent of the world is as fortunate as these areas and uh
[speaker001:] that's probably true that's probably true
[speaker002:] it's I know our church youth group um starts with projects young but they they have a high school group that works in the Appalachia area every year they've done this for fourteen years now
[speaker001:] um-hum oh that's great
[speaker002:] um and it is it's um and they've also see that there's there's a different way of life and those families are really close some of the things that we talked about that were common in the fifties are still there and um
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] it really every youth that's ever gone really has felt that their life has been changed and it's changed their perspective and and that's just the two two weeks during during the summer so if two weeks um could have that kind of effect I would
[speaker001:] um-hum well that's that's great I'm glad that there are still some areas that
[speaker002:] think uh
[speaker001:] that that get the youth involved in that sort of thing you know like I said I think it does
[speaker002:] well that's
[speaker001:] even even a small amount of exposure can make a vast difference in their attitudes
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] well
[speaker002:] well I guess um did you have anything else that
[speaker001:] no I I guess that's about all okay
[speaker002:] okay well I I enjoyed talking with you
[speaker001:] well good talking with you
[speaker002:] and I hope you have a good evening thanks bye bye
[speaker001:] you too okay bye