[16]
My 16th birthday:
Dad drives me
to the Post Office
to sign my
Selective Service
documents.
[76]
I sign; I’m an American
man, love my country.
It’s the law & an act of faith & love.
While “The Star-Spangled Banner”
sends tingles up & down my spine,
it’s “America the Beautiful” I love.
I thrill to Tall Ships, fireworks, our flag, & 200 years.
The United States makes mistakes,
will make mistakes.
(I’ll make mistakes.)
It’s not “my country,
right or wrong.”
It’s my country;
we must not rest —
we must fix wrongs.
~*~
Andrew Shattuck McBride
NaPoWriMo ~ 2013 | My Day 15
April 22, 2013
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