October History

I wrote these when the Soup was down and had no place to share them History of the Day Oct 15th This is the anniversary of the first draft card burning It happened at Berkeley when the country was turning From support of the war and the peace all were yearning It didn’t stop the drafting; it didn’t stop the war It didn’t stop at Berkeley but happened more and more And it got the country thinking – what are we fighting for We thought we had to do it when the war did start But I really can’t condone it; we all should do our part But give the guy some credit; he did it from his heart Oct 16th That “Let them eat cake” was such a low blow The populists decided she had to eat crow The year was 1793 The Antoinette we called Marie Was led to the gallows on this very day With the drop of the knife, her head rolled away For the knife was sharp and the cut was clean And that was the end of the French King and Queen Oct 17th On this day in 31 Al Capone was finally done Convicted then of tax evasion By accountants math equations Eleven years his sentence said A stroke and syphilis left him dead And remember back in 89 World Series baseball time Earthquake off the Richter scale San Francisco faces pale 66 were killed that day As roads and bridges all did sway mdailey