Face of Evil

Each generation has had to confront the bestial hand/ From the time Washington strode upon this land/ None with a soul could shrink from this stand/ As merciless enemies shouted their demand/ Redcoats and robbers of liberty/ Trying to squelch the natural yearning to be free/ Then the answer to the bloodbath at the Alamo/ With liberty's lovers telling Mexican oppressors to let go/ Then brother pitted against brother in a struggle like no other/ A noble victory freeing the slaves/ Leaving six hundred thousand in their graves/ The constant menace of the Indian wars/ With brutality on both sides settling scores/ Then there was the explosion of the Maine and the defeat of the empire of Spain/ Now an international power/ Wilson dallied over facing our fateful hour/ But when the Kaiser became too much/ America throttled his bloodied touch/ And then again in World War Two/ The USA did what liberty lovers must do/ And faced the wrath of devils without soul/ And turned them back in the liberator role/ Then came the fight to save Korea from the seeping menace of the Red/ That left so many innocents dead/ On the peninsula, then Vietnam/ With peace with honor a faulty stand/ Because against such an enemy/ Only in victory are people really free/ And we stood as we watched the plane hit the tower/ Knowing we too are called to answer in this fateful hour/ Will we shrink from the bloodied unbidden hand/ That brought destruction to the homeland/ Or will we rise as the phoenix to avenge the day/ And make the fanatics dearly pay?