Setting ground rules

Devotion shows itself in many ways. Devotion is seen on damp spring mornings as volunteers place small flags or fresh flower arrangements on the graves of fallen service men and women, taking care to make them neat and clean. Devotion can be seen in the soapy hands and bent backs of those who volunteer their time to scrub accumulated grime off headstones and grave markers, weathered, but sti...

Each May about 4 million young people graduate from high schools across the country. The ceremonies are similar. Family, friends and relatives gather on football fields or gymnasiums. Music plays and young people in robes solemnly process. Speeches are given. Tears are shed. There is polite laughter as the school official delivers the same joke for the 23rd year in a row. Names are called. Dipl...