Remember Pearl Harbor Seventy-Eight Years Ago
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where we are in the US, presently, is potentially much worse than Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941.
Remember Pearl Harbor
Seventy-eight Years Ago
By Franklin Price
12/07/2019
Seventy-eight years ago,
At the rising of the sun
Came the day of infamy;
Our present times begun
The sleeping giant awakened,
To become the greatest power
Would take four years and many lives
To have our finest hour
A country made for freedom,
For each citizen to choose,
Stood up to be counted,
Still the biggest in the news
Unlike those whom we had beaten
Did not try to take it all
But fought to bring to others
What we knew was freedom's call
The path that then was chosen
Was an ego boosting way
The world's supposed to cling to
Every single word we say
When we're in disagreement
With the ways that others go
We try to force what works for us
All is better, that we know
We're not the be all or the end all
For any other foreign land
The government at present
Our own people cannot stand
Need to respond, as we did then
Yes, back in forty-one
Fight to win the war we're in
Or it's over and we're done
Copyright © Franklin Price | Year Posted 2019
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