Editorial August 25, 1997 Issue

Young people, you're tomorrow's heroes

Mary Metzner Trammell

Maybe you never thought of yourself as a hero. But maybe you do believe—as so many young people do these days—that the world needs heroes. Desperately. That it needs people of extraordinary courage, selflessness, nobility, and love. People who live to make the universe around them a better place. People whose achievements set a standard of greatness for the age.

So what's to keep you and other young men and women like you, from being one of these heroes? What's to keep you from changing things, once and for all, for the better—morally, spiritually, ethically, governmentally, artistically—for people of every race and nation. What's to keep you from setting the tone for the next millennium?

Now, I know what some critics say about your generation. They say you live in a culture of your own—a high-speed world of media images. A blaring, pulsating collage of TV, loud music, death-wish lyrics, and cyber-speak. And they say you don't trust adults, much less want to improve their world.

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