Poet's Platform Column | 7 Sept 06 by Janet Nesler | The Scioto Voice | Wheelersburg, Ohio

Listen America America won’t you please hear our voice We are the land of Red, White, and Blue Founded on religious principles long ago To these principals will you now be true Our forefathers came to escape tyrants They wanted to worship God and be free Working hard to build this great country Fighting for their faith if that need to be What now has happened to this country Has God been replaced as our salvation Does anyone think we can really survive Unless we keep God's faith in this nation A country founded by and for the people Yet it now seems that we are ruled by few Let God's name return to public buildings Show the minority their rule is now through Acie Workman Eden Park   Our Great Country Our great country needs to return to its roots Not to stand idly by and see it run by a few Think of why our forefathers came to America To start this land of the red, white, and blue Freedom to worship God was their mission Taxation without representation had to go Hard working people who wanted freedom On these ideas this country began to grow Great men and women worked hard for it Going to war if this must be the only way Wanting to see all people safe and secure Having a church where anyone might pray Some of their greatest dreams have faded In public they have tried to ban God's name Now the ten commandments must not be seen Was this why our forefathers here first came Think my fellow Americans, you will realize With God's help we became a great country Should we throw it all away to appease some If in God we trust, we can still keep her free Acie Workman Eden Park   Our Fallen As we walk this great land with freedom We think of those who have gone away To strange lands to fight for our country It is for all these heros we have this day With rows of the White crosses standing Each cross bears these brave ones name They fought with valor and with courage Back in a flag draped coffin they came Lives have been altered by these wars We wonder about what might have been Had our soldier survived that last action They would be back home with us again Our country today gives so much gratitude For those who have died in any ghastly war We have provided them a final resting place But to these fallen we owe so much more Acie Workman Eden Park