I think that there is still a large percentage (majority, even) who would do whatever it took to get the job done, were we to find ourselves on the doorstep of another Pearl Harbor (look at the recruiting offices in the weeks following 9-11!), whether they felt comfortable volunteering for front-line duty or found a way to provide support from the home-front (organizing bond-drives or scrap-metal drives, for instance). Your average teenager, however, is probably not going to come right out and say that unless his friends are saying similar things, but will still do the right thing when the time comes. I think the drastic rise in tv/movie/videogame violence, coupled with all of the embedded media showing real-time what war is like, has caused the ambivalence and the general "heck, no, I won't go" attitudes. As for me, I'd sign up again in a heartbeat if the US needed me. And my daughter (and any future kiddos) will be raised the same.