Today, we want you to meet Father Flanagan himself, the man who has created this new way of dealing with youth. Thank you, Sam, and good afternoon, everyone. Twenty-five years ago, there was a terrible drought in the Middle West. That winter, I saw the streets of Omaha filled with unemployed men, men who were out in the cold, men who were hungry and had no place to sleep. I opened a shelter for them. But soon I learned that many of these men sought an idle life rather than a life of work. I learned that many of them had been homeless in their youth. And that gave me the idea that it would be better to work with boys, homeless, neglected boys, who could still be turned into good American citizens. I've always hated the cruel system that neglects boys until they're forced into breaking the law and then fails to solve the problem by putting them in reformatories. From my experience, I have learned that reformatories do not reform because you can't reform a boy behind bars. I never thought these boys needed reforming, But they did need a home, love, care, and education. And every chance to become worthwhile citizens like privileged boys. I've always believed that no boy wanted to be bad. No boy needed reforming. If only adult society gave him half a chance. I am proud that thousands of these boys have already been given a new start in Boys Town. And that not one of them has ever disproved the belief that is closest to my heart that there is no such thing as a bad boy.