  In one of the last speeches Abraham Lincoln gave he called on the nation both north and south to help heal the wounds of that awful war that they had just come through, we today need to do much of the same.
We live in a divided nation, I live in a divided Generation. The two extremes yelling at each other to be heard, trying to push the other without listening. Hot topic issues create strife between classes, friends, and families, and we must stop that now. I am not a soldier, but some of my closets friends are and I and their families fear for their safety everyday.
Not because we are not true patriots, or that we are against the war, we just worry that one unlucky shot, or bomb, or accident, will kill a good man, woman, or child. Our friends are putting their lives on the line for, what I believe is to be called a good cause, but that does not make us worry any less. I live in a largely military community, and many children here have at least one parent missing from home.
They come into where I work to get food and to get away from the fact that they are at least one parent down, they have those same fears that we all keep for our loved ones over there, but on a level that we cannot imagine. My job and I have tried to help by simply donating little things to the children of soldiers, in our case its just pizza, but to see the looks on the children faces you would think that we are giving them pure gold. We do this not because we are partiots trying to do a good thing for our country, but as people trying to do a good thing for our common man.
I also believe we need to help children in our child welfare system, because I am a product of that same system. As I reach quickly in adulthood I thank God that I was adopted out of that same system by people that honestly believed that I could be more than just a number on a case workers file.
They took me into their home, along with my sister and made us one of their family. We as a nation need to remember these children as well. They are our brothers and sisters and they cannot be left to feel as not wards of the state, but opens of that same state. We must love all of them, and allow not one to be lost again in a world that they believe does not love them.
So this is where my challenge lies, somewhere around you there are hundreds of kids that need a friend, at school, at church, in your neighborhood, there are children that need a little love, to make them a success and to give them back dignity and self-worth. If we help them today, they may not become tomorrow's criminals. To help our peers, help our future should be one of the goals placed down in front of the nation. The ways are simple go outside of your comfort zones and get uncomfortable. I helped set up and afterschool tutoring program for kids in some of the more dangerous sections of town.
I am not saying that I changed the world as a whole, but I hope that I changed the world of at least one. The time for talk is over the time for action is now, we are loosing a war for America's future and that in my eyes may be more important than a war against terror.
I fear terror, but I do not live in it, but there are thousands of children that do. Thousands of kids that feel that the world does not care if they live or die, and that is wrong, we all must care. It is our duty to help complete what Lincoln told us to do so long ago. To help the future will help us end an age of neglect. These kids do not want a government subsides, they want to feel like the government cares. Help me, help yourselves and most of all help them, by becoming active in your community, church, school, or anywhere else you feel that you can help.
Help me start a revolution, a revolution of caring. Thank-you 
