text: I couldn't agree more.  The world has changed for the worse.  I have fond memories of waking up early on weekend mornings to run down and dive into the local pit of broken glass and rattlesnakes.  I would spend hours in that pit, playing snake tag with neighborhood kids. I loved that pit so much, you couldn't drag me out of it with a pole coated with barbed wire, but that didn't stop Ma from trying!  Had my first kiss in that pit, I did.  The pit became so popular, our graduating class held their prom there.  Sadly, during my most recent trip to my hometown, I found the government had shut the pit down, and it had been replaced with an Applebee's.  I got myself a table there and sat down.  I looked around the restaurant and teared up when thinking about the kids in my hometown growing up, skin unbitten and scar-free.  Then as my food arrived, I looked out the window and to my horror, saw a child spit.  This is not my America anymore.  
  
  God help us.