Where Would We Be
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Is the commemoration we're witnessing today, only eyewash? Do we even care any more?
Doesn't appear so, from how we act and how we treat each other.
Where Would We Be
By Franklin Price
6/6/2019
Where would we be, without this day,
In nineteen-forty-four?
Our “Greatest Generation” ,
Went to open Europe's door.
Three score and fifteen years ago,
Left their blood on Normandy,
Many fell, did not return,
For this freedom that we see
In those days, was all for one
Today that's not the way
What can this country do for me?,
Is what too many people say
Did they do it all for nothing?
I ask you, was it all for naught?
They laid their lives, upon the line,
For this freedom, their blood bought
Won't be long before they're gone
Time always works that way
Don't let them leave in disappointment
For what they did there on that day
Wake up America, clear your heads,
Remember what they did back then.
If we don't now work together
We'll have to do it all again.
Copyright © Franklin Price | Year Posted 2019
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