December Seventh Forty One

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I saw the beginning and let it go where it wanted to go. God Bless America!!!

December Seventh Forty One
By Franklin Price
12/07/2024

December seventh forty one
Was quite some time ago
Soon will be a century
With no one left to know

What happened on that awful day
When the planes came overhead
Sunk our ships and killed our people
But our country was not dead

We responded to the melee
And by nineteen forty five
We dropped the “A” bombs on Japan
To keep millions more alive

We became the power on the Earth
Now eight billion mouths to feed
We're no more in isolation
The whole world now has our need

For all of us to come together
We're the ones who do that best
We have never gone to conquer
Though we're oft put to the test

We spread our aid throughout the world
Trillions of dollars now in debt
Most of the countries run by capitalists
To compete with us, you bet

Less than one percent now hold the wealth
As we continue on the ride
They steer the Earth's economy
We're up against the rising tide

What the airplanes did that morning
In Pearl Harbor long ago
Was not as bad as is what's happening
In the world now, that we know

If we don't soon come together
To make sense of where we are
Our great country of America
Will be, at last,  a fallen star

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