Shaner,
Not only do I believe that this country still grows the best and the brightest, but I still believe that there are more people like this young man than there are of the criers and whiners. They (the whiners) get the press and everyones attention because of all the noise they make. Sort of like the protesters (read far left movies stars) in Washington of late. They seem to have no problem bitching about the president, foreign policy, the war, the country in general, but they seem to have absoulutely no problem making huge sums of money by acting in movies that are war related or use the evil gun in a whole lot of their movies. Clooney in Three Kings and Tim Robbins in Top Gun, Penn in Casualties of War, immediately come to mind. I think that they should be reminded the nicest thing about this country if you don't like it you are free to leave at any time.

Sorry for the rant,
Wolfgang