LEST WE FORGET
And so many more...
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Japanese robbed
Deported to desert
Learning to read
So proud
Newspaper story
War some where
2 weeks later
Same war
What’s the matter with grownups?
Domestic Violence shared abroad
Same war still going
Won’t read that story any more
Maybe war will go away.
Baby boomer generation
Black vets post WWII
Attacked by whites
For jobs and housing.
Medgar Evers killed 1963
President Kennedy assassinated
Malcolm X assassinated
All before I graduated HS
Martin Luther King assassinated
Senator Robert Kennedy assassinated
Riot Dem National Convention Chicago
10,000 protestors against Vietnam war
3,000 police officers
Protesters shot Orangeburg Massacre
Protestors shot Kent State
Fred Hampton assassinated
Open fire on Black Panther party members
George Wallace shot campaign stop
President Gerald Ford targeted twice
Underground movement rises and falls
President Reagan shot
President Bill Clinton assassination attempt
1985 MOVE bombing Philadelphia Police
Oklahoma city homegrown terrorist bomb
Tennessee Democratic State Senator Tommy Burks assassinated
President Obama multiple failed assassination plots
Gabby Giffords attempted assassination
Republican Congressmen targets mass shooting 2017
Car attack Charlottesville protest
Pipe bombs near homes Obama and Clinton
Donald Trump shot rally 2024, 2nd attempt Florida
On
and on
and on
America’s 2nd Amendment rights
increases the availability
Of weapons
To make
A statement
That can’t be
Taken back
But what about
The alleged good guys
Running amok?
Seems like
To the degree
We don’t learn
From history
History repeats pounding
In the worst way
This is a drop
In the bucket
Which runneth over
Now I’m the adult
In the room
My hands are tied
My heart cries
Time for the rubber
To meet the road
Respect to all
Whom I’ve not acknowledged
Who’ve paid the
Ultimate price
In service to America
Georgena Felicia ©
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