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erican television personality. He hosted the famous American Bandstand from 1956-1989, in which teenagers danced to a top 40 hit on television. Perhaps this association to teenagers led to him releasing this answer to Victor Lundberg's "An Open Letter to My Teenage Son". It does not express a pro or anti war stance. It calls on the older generation to show a greater understanding for the youth of America, and to stop knocking them, because they "do there thing quite well". The narration makes references to teen culture, drugs, the draftboard, and kids fighting in the army: "The music that you are hearing is the sound of the teens... What I've learned from my life spent with teens and their songs Is when they ask what's right, we just tell them what's wrong Since there is no common tongue for adults and teens We can't understand what our teenager means All we do is give thanks that it isn't our child when we read the scare headline That some kids have gone wild, selling grass in schoolyards... Riots at the draftboard, blame it on the kids... Blame the kids for acid, blame the kids for pot... Blame the kids for hippies and bummer trips... Now lets just stop for a moment and think about the kids we know You couldn't really call them bad because it isn't so... They fall in love, out of love, and into love again... Ore kids all seem to do there thing quite well So how come we keep hearing that our youth as gone to hell? Who is so afraid of them that we hear this big lie?...it is you and I They scare us with their questions with what they want to know... They search for their solution...they are not afraid to protest Free speech begs they should When they shout that 'war is bad', and we shout that 'no, it's good' We cry unpatriotic...and then they go and fight And die and leave blood in foreign pools... Embrace your sons and daughters now America, be proud"