We now live in a generation where the young men never wore brogan work shoes and the young women never wore homemade flour sack dresses.. and we are a much weaker nation because of it...

Young people... part of the greatness of your parents’ generation, and our country, resulted from brogan shoes, flour sack dresses and what they represented.. If you don't understand ask your parents sometime and they will pass on great wisdom to you if you are able to grasp it..

Most of the boys who wore brogan-style work shoes grew up to be as tough as the shoe leather from which their shoes had been made, and most of the girls grew up to be as pretty and as resourceful as what the flour sack dresses they wore represented.. When those brogan-wearing boys grew up to marry the flour sack dress wearing girls... They raised strong, hard-working resourceful children.. Much more suited for life than the video, cell phone, generation of today I believe..

There was much to be learned while following a stinking, sweaty, mule, down long rows of corn... while holding to the handles of a double shovel plow... Things, which can never be learned from reading a book, playing a video game, watching a television screen or texting on a cell phone..

Those young men of that generation were very likely to believe in God and know how to pray when they felt the need to talk to their maker...

When searching for a sweetheart... The church house was a favorite place to look.. Pretty young ladies made a habit of attending church... and sure looked mighty good in their new dresses.. Even if they had been made by their mother...

And so they wore their pretty new flour sack dresses with pride.. And there was a beauty about them which is difficult to match in modern beauty parlors.. or with jars of beauty cream... lipstick and makeup..

Gone forever are those days and we are the worse for their having passed away... And So Here I stand.. One old man who remembers wearing brogan work shoes...