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FLAG DAY AND INDEPENDENCE DAY
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FLAG DAY AND INDEPENDENCE DAY |
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Abe Senior Member
since 2003-05-28
Posts 694Looks like Vero Beach, FL until the end! 
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FLAG DAY AND INDEPENDENCE DAY “They’re fighting now about our Flag Some say that, “It’s alright to burn it!” But our History’s reached another page And the time has quickly come to turn it. We have people marching in the streets Who wave flags from some foreign land They want the same Rights as you and I Like that’s what, our Forefathers planned? Some want a two language Nation To speak English, and “that other one” They want to steal all our identities And probably will, before they’re done. Some crimes that seem to be the worst Are the ones who get the least of time But it’s some judges on the bench Who really commit the worst crime. We have a broken justice (?) system That puts molesters back out on the street And churches who condone those sins To make our great Society complete. We are being sold to the lowest bidder Our jobs are being outsourced “over there” They don’t have to Fight, they’ll just buy us And it seems, nobody seems to care! We spend billions in foreign aid “To make the World, a better place!” (?) They take all those dollars greedily And then, they’ll slap us in the face. We went from having money in the bank To the worst deficit in our history While the rich keep getting richer At the cost of those like you and me. We have seniors, the poor and young Who don’t have the basic Human needs Like food and shelter and healthcare And that plants some very bitter seeds. It seems we care more about others Than trying to take care of our own Especially those who hold our purse strings Most who, hard times they’ve never known. Twenty-five hundred Warriors killed With more added each and every day And thousands more hurt and maimed While some say, “The price we must pay!” But most those who send them off to War Are not the ones who pay that cost It’s not their loved ones sent away Who might not return, who are lost. We were misled or led astray But that’s a whole other story The real truth, while in waging Wars There is never any Truth or Glory. We People must all be appeased And made to think we’re doing good That in the end it will all be worth it And would be a nice change if it would. But the killing of our fellow Man Has always been the Human way Always fueled by greed and power No matter, what else they may say. Those who penned our Constitution Are probably turning in disgust As our Rights are disappearing And it’s wrong (?), “In God We Trust!” Our Independence is being hijacked By a Government that has gone wild Who say they know what’s best for us And treat us all, like some stepchild. That, “By And For The People!” Is the way it was always meant to be But the way things have been going Takes from, this “Land Of The Free!” Even when we try to speak our mind Most of them will turn a deaf ear Say, “No, we know what’s good for you!” Or, “That’s not what we want to hear!” Someday, with a day of reckoning We will all wonder, “What went wrong? When we used to be the Greatest Nation And were Free, and Proud, and Strong!” 6-15-2006 Del "Abe" Jones Mankind's greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology, it is the evolution of creativity. |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Abe~ You always mix in lots of views and opinions with your pennings~ Some I agree with ... and some I don't ... but yep ... I'm part of the American dream that is STILL "Free, and Proud, and Strong"~ Bless you~ *Huglets*  ~*Marge*~ ~*The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but it's echo endures much longer*~ |
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Pilgrimage Member Elite
since 2001-12-04
Posts 3945Texas, USA |
I don't agree with everything you say--but I like the way you say it, and I really like the fact that you DO say it. Nan (Pilgrim variety) |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
another thinker here Del thanks for sharing |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
The last stanza speaks volumes. |
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