Kids sure have changed since I joined the army.

Now they are "people that really believe in this country what it stand for".

And I read just the other day where our troops in Iraq are America's "finest young men and women."

We weren't like that when I joined the army. We didn't believe in the country more than average people. Or at least I never heard anybody talk like they did the years I was in the army.

And we sure weren't America's finest young men and women. We were pretty average, really. We joined up for all sorts of reasons. But all and all, we were just average guys.