As I read the posts from those who are interested in the American Fall, watch the videos, and speak directly to those who've attended, I am so impressed with the range of emotion.  Those who are involved, are hopeful beyond expectation.  Hope springs eternal, right?  It is contagious and synergistic, and the involvement of youth, bumps it exponentially higher.  
  On the other hand, I do not understand the venomous attacks from those who seem to find it reprehensible.  The mere fact that someone out there, let alone many people out there, have made the TIME in life to demonstrate, appears to topple the anthill for some.  This 'get to work' mentatlity is the machine that has manufactured the lavish heel that is grinding us further into the parched earth.