It is with a heavy heart as I pen this post about our founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, who left us earlier this morning. I've been reading all the tributes and thought this would be a good chance to consolidate what Singapore owes to this man as we look back on how far we've come. While the nation grieves, I try to find comfort in the fact that people are taking the time to remember his legacy and recount how he brought Singapore from a Third World to a First World nation in a lifespan of a single generation. I'm not sure, and I doubt, that there has been any other country quite like us. My generation does not really know Lee Kuan Yew, for we were born after the most trying of times. We didn't grow up in times of war and fighting, and all we know are ......