Marking the Day

Twelve years ago, almost to the minute, innocent people in the United States were wantonly murdered by nihilists masquerading under the banner of Islam. Americans went to sleep on September Tenth to a world at peace and awoke the next day to find ourselves dragged into a seemingly endless war, not of our choice or of our making but forced upon us. We can never forget, we must never forget, and we will never forget that there are those who despise our liberty and seek to destroy us for it. We must always stand on guard for freedom. May God bless America.

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?