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Laughed out loud twice. Good stuff. This youth movement feels...different from the last one. And better. I think the presence of good veterans, as unhip as that sounds, is a big part of
it. I'm talking about quality players who can show the kids how you beat the oponent, not so much how you "go about your business" as important as that is.
I remember a scene in Citizen Soldiers describing the early days of the Normandy Invasion, when a grizzled old officer had to show a young soldier how to clear a house. He approaches it, throws a grenade in, then enters it, and kills the German soldiers with his rifle and bayonet. "And that's how you clear a house" he says to the kid, expecting him to do so going forward. He won't be around to keep doing it for him, after all (and he wasn't. Ambrose reported the old guy dies weeks later).
Raul has been showing these kids how you clear a house.