Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates.
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.