THE ELEVENTH HOUR
I have received many emails
since our Nation was attacked,
from some wanting to know if
I was going to write a poem
for my site about the
attack on our Nation.
I have also received emails
of petitions to sign for world peace.
I have read each petition and
email very carefully,
and thoughtfully.
Although I respect
each individuals right
to express their own opinions
about world peace and war,
I also respect mine as well.
Today I watched on the news
as already protestors have started
their marches against war,
and I felt a deep growing fear
inside of me.
I have to ask myself why
did it take another tragedy
to come upon our Nation
to evoke the selling of our American Flags?
Why hasn't every home in America
already had a flag flying
proudly each and every day?
Our freedom is too often taken for granted,
just as we take each other for granted.
Just because something,
or someone is here yesterday and today,
does not mean that it,
or they will be tomorrow.
We have each other through pain, labor,
and suffering before we are born,
just as through pain,
labor and dying we have the freedom
of our great Nation.
Our people cry and call for retalliation
for what has been done
to their Country.
I remember not so long ago
it cried out for the same thing,
and then the Nations people turned
its backs on the Soldiers
that paid the price when they were called.
Cries for world peace ring out.
World peace is a beautiful dream,
but it is one that we shall never see.
Wars have raged on since the beginning of time,
and shall do so untill the end of time.
When not at war with another country,
we are at war with each other.
We "offend" each other by expressing
our own opinions and beliefs,
and we battle over them,
thus tearing each other apart,
and our Nation along with us.
Christians "offend" the non-believers
by practicing their right to pray,
and to worship God in public, thus,
the answer was to take God
out of the schools and our government.
Christians that should stand up
and fight for their rights,
instead fall in tears and
wait for God to do what
His children should be doing themselves.
Most think that being a Christian
is to roll over, give in,
and "not make waves",
while all the while loseing their rights,
all in the name of "world peace".
They seem to have forgotten
that as well as being a merciful,
forgiving and loving God,
God is also the ultimate General.
Joshua, King David, King Solomon,
all fought their battles
that needed to be fought and won.
They had one general in common...
God Almighty.
Memorial Day, Independance Day,
Labor Day and Veterans Day
are no longer observed for
the reasons they were intended,
but rather looked upon as
three day weekends from school or work.
We forget to teach our children
that these are days in which
to show respect and honor
for those that gave their lives
so that we could be a free and great Nation.
While our Nation readies
itself for war once again,
already peace marchers,
and petitions are being mailed out for
"peace not war", and "war is not the answer".
It brings to mind that war
not so long ago while our Soldiers
were fighting in a far away land,
our Nation was pulling itself apart
by those who burned our flags,
rioted against our schools,
federal buildings, victimized our wounded Soldiers,
law officers, and their fellow students,
and this was done by
the hands of the "peace lovers"
of our Nation.
My heart goes out to the lives
of those already lost when our Nation was attacked,
but it grieves also for what I fear lies ahead.
For on the eleventh day of this month,
our Country was placed in
the eleventh hour rapidly approaching midnight.
I pray that as our Armed Forces now are asked to pay
another great price to keep our Nations freedom,
the American people will not once again turn its back,
but realize that our freedom
has never came to us easily or freely,
we have always paid the ultimate price...
God Bless,
~Shawnee~
This commentary is copyrighted material by Deborah Kellie, aka Shawnee Kellie. Please do not alter, nor use without authors permission.
 
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