There Is A Crisis Involving

And I See The - You Know, When I Go To The Juvenile Detention Centers And Prisons, I See People Who Can't Read Now. And I Know That When They Leave Those Prisons And Those Detention Centers, They're Not Going To Be Able To Make It In Our Society.

I Joined The Army On My Seventeenth Birthday, Full Of The Romance Of War After Having Read A Lot Of World War I British Poetry And Having Seen A Lot Of Post-world War Ii Films. I Thought The Romantic Presentations Of War Influenced My Joining And My Presentation Of War To My Younger Siblings.

Books Transmit Values. They Explore Our Common Humanity. What Is The Message When Some Children Are Not Represented In Those Books?

I Want Young People To Be Hesitant To Glorify War And To Demand Of Their Leaders Justification For The Sacrifices They Ask Of Our Citizens.

You Cannot Live This Life Anymore Without The Ability To Read.