How Can We?
How can we breed patriots
When we don’t teach our history?
From ‘Pilgrim Rock’ through
The great presidents of our time?
Valley Forge, the wars we’ve fought
For a country now harassed with hate?
How can we deplore so easily
With easy disdain and anger?
How can we be so blind of eye
As not to see the great rupture
In our land of milk and honey?
How can we not with haste defeat
This pestilence that so infects
Our hearts, our minds, our souls?
How can we be so hardened of heart
As not to feel compassion and joy?
How can we not feel pride in a
Nation that has so much to give?
How can we not stem the bigotry
That runs rancid in our streets?
How can we turn a Democracy
Into a totalitarian state of chaos?
What feeds this disease that now
Plagues our halls of government?
Please, tell me how can we revive
A country rich in history and glory?
How can we breed patriots
When we don’t teach our history?
Billy Ray Chitwood – March, 2019
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