Credit To the People

It is just one of those things that goes unnoticed When credit is due for a job well done. I'm talking of all the support one has to get Especially, if the job is not fun. But I look back in our history to see Things that we did together in National cause. Many of them were given to the credit of one side or the other But in truth, they give me reason to pause. The founding of our country was credited to wealthy men Who signed that document in Philadelphia so long ago. But would it have been worth the paper it is written on If it hadn't been for the "Nobodys" that braved the Valley Forge snow? The Civil War we had devastated our land And pitted brother against brother from sea to sea. Yet, Lincoln got the credit for keeping the nation together When so many others died in a war, which began to set others free. Our Parents and Grandparents get not enough credit For living through adversity as none of us has seen. "The Great Depression", "World War ll", and the lasting peace to follow Truly makes them "The Greatest Generation" that has ever been. Then we had the "Space Race", Kennedy's "Peace Corps" initiative, a "War on Poverty" Followed by other Presidents' projects o'er the years which the Nation did not eschew. So, from a small voice to the ears of all who will listen and hear I say, "GIVE TRUE CREDIT TO THE PEOPLE ... CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE"!