Usa Memorial Day

To All Who Gave Their Lives Far across the seas, they went, to keep this great land ….safe and free. I was just a wee bit of a girl, decades ago.I was born the week of the Anschluss. Hitler, mad with power, many Americans, volunteered to serve, many gave up their happy lives and many never came back But I tell you what, nobody ran around hating our fellow Americans! We had parades and were a God fearing people. We never heard of a New World Order. Today…the entire planet in disorder. I remember the blackouts. All lights had to be turned off. We had to sit in the dark. It was a drill, if ever the enemy were to come here. I’d take my teddy bear with me. We would sit in the air raid shelter. I could only see the stars winking at me. Hitler was planning on doing America in, also. Luckily our nation’s brave soldiers, and that of our Allies ended that. When evil men, anywhere, try to destroy our rights and Constitutional freedoms, we must fight back. Now, things are far worse. We have a number of world powers trying to do us in. I rarely see gratitude for living here…the media seems to have learned from Hitler…just lie! In the last two years, we now have weaponized government against all and raided homes., and break our rights. Censorship was Hitler’s specialty. And is going on today. Good people are illegally jailed. Criminals are not only freed but made into gods and saints! I did not grow up in an America being told it is hateful. Nor was I told God’s laws are cancelled. But they are in every way. Life was so different when I was young….it was sane! There is only one flag of the United States for all of us, no matter our ethnicities! Otherwise, all those who died for us, did die in vain. It’s up to us, to see that they did not. Speak up when you see evil. The government was created for your freedom long ago. You are not their property, Nor your children. The rise of anti-Semitism is growing. And lately, attacks on Catholic Churches. A beautiful statue of Father Junipero Serra has been destroyed! These are hate crimes and should be treated as such. Don’t be silent in your poetry. Marigolds and rainbows will not save this country..and if lunatics run it…then it’s on our bac! In memory of all who served and died for you, poet. Panagiota Romios 5/29/2023