To the millennium generation: I happen to be very fond of you guys now getting ready to receive the torch that is being passed to you. But your inheriting a fallen standard as myself and my generation have offered no explanatory role to model your future for but there is a generation you can use as your role model, your grandparents generation, the people from the World War II generation that Mr. Tom Brokaw, the recent retired anchor of NBC nightly news, chronicled there lives in his book called the greatest generation", with a well deserved account of how they had nothing but one thing, faith, faith in themselves, faith in there country and faith in God to overcome all challenges and how well they did. We, the baby boomers, rebelled but today wish we had not and more than appreciate our parents and are embarrassed about our self absorbness and denial of how our character is now limited. As confused as you are, in the
world is at a high challenge once again and America's spirit is at rock bottom. Now with the challenge ahead this magazine is dedicated to showing you, the millennium generation, that it is not necessary to be #1, but to avail yourselves to go into the 3rd world for a week or a month and volunteer with any good organization and do a noble cause for the impoverished and the result will be two things, 1) taking the hand of the downtrodden and saying I am here as your new friend which will immediately inspire hope for the unfortunate and 2) you will immediately find you have done something that has made you a better person and than understand that we are brought into the world to make it a better place and than understand that under heaven there is a purpose for everything and with that purpose your life is becoming enhanced. God speed to you all. the millennium generation.
—Bill Ryan