Glenn already posted on this, but it’s worth repeating. It’s from a seventeen-year-old high-school student in the Detroit area.

We must achieve the almost impossible to go further then you. To go further then you we have to establish human life beyond the confines of our home. That is a mighty task you have left us with. Hopefully we can do that while finding the solutions to earthly problems in the process. We need a place to go, and we’ll find that place. Then we will go there, with our kids in the backseat (of the spacecraft) asking “Are we there yet?”

People like David are why we have to get it right this time. One generation’s dreams betrayed are enough.

[Via Kathy Kinsley]