PERHAPS WE COME FULL CIRCLEAND HEAR THE CRY, "NO MORE!"By George Martin
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This land, O, God,
How have we come to this?
This land that gave us heroes
Who touched the skies
And walked upon its clouds?This land that gave us children
Who burned the shrouds of hate and infamy
And rid the world of monstrous men
Who builded Birkenau and Sobibor.Children the like of which
No other land has seen,
Who gave their lives, their all,
Who stood as one and raised mailed fist
Against that evil time
And showed the world the love and rime
Of their most inner soul.And are they dead in vain?
Once more this evil rises up
And walks amongst our children,
And blinds their eyes
With the sick canker of its soulless hate.America!
Their voice cries out to you,
From Iwo Jima and Omaha's red sands,
"It was our blood that dyed it red,
We slew this monster once,
Take back your children and give them love
And show them how to keep it dead!"
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