Rock Cafe, Stroud, OK, USA

Everyone reviews the food at the Rock Cafe and the reviews are always glowing. This is not a food review.

When my brother and I walked into the Rock Cafe yesterday afternoon I was struck with the impression that it was being run by a bunch of kids. When I commented out loud, the young woman that heard me responded with, "Yes Sir. But they are the best raised, most polite, and hardest working kids you will ever meet".

Over the course of our visit, her words were more than proven to be true. The young cook's helpers in the kitchen prepared our order with skill and dispatch. The young woman that had come to their defense, attended our table attentively without hovering.

Before we left, we met a young man (one of the cook's helpers) that had, just that afternoon, committed to the Army when he graduates high school in May. He is going to be a combat medic. He's going because he thinks it's the right thing to do.

We left there well fed as so many have reported. More importantly to me, We left with the feeling that this generation cannot be lost as long as it has kids like these.