Participation is on a strictly voluntary basis. There was this fellow who I grew up with as a neighbor, and he got into the program to help cope with his rough family father a drunk, and his mother a tramp. He was a good-hearted guy who held out for a long time but eventually he ended up getting involved in drugs and hanging out with gangs. I guess he's dead by now. We recognize intuitively its importance, but find it all but impossible to grasp in its essentials.
Character is, at one and the same time, the most important and intangible things about a person.
It makes us what we are, and allows us to become what we aspire to be. Robert R. Holton writes from Memphis, Tennessee.