I see a great nation on her knees, fallen because she couldn’t see the many wounds that she has had for the last century. But she has many scars on her. These scars remind her of what she’s survived.
There’s the scar along her stomach from the civil war when she almost got split in half from people tearing her apart because of different beliefs.
She’s got stretch marks on her belly because of the influx of her children, all of whom are immigrants who had come from other countries or had ancestors that traveled many seas to be on these lands, whether or not her children like to think so.
There’s the scars on her back from when she turned her back from the first World War all because she didn’t want to be involved in the War across the seas, causing the War to come to her, bombing Pearl Harbor and destroying many families all at once.
She has sunken eyes when the nation fell into the Great Depression and many of her newborn children died before the age of 5 years, and very few of her adult children lived beyond the age of 60. She hardly ate and worked hard to provide for millions of people.
She’s got scars on her legs from the gruesome second World War in which she carried herself and many millions of people while she walked to become strong, and she fought for a better nation, for a better world.
She’s got scars from the cuts along her arms from the Cold War, ready to sacrifice herself to destroy another nation if they even so much as glanced at the Nuclear Missiles. She barely survived the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. But she did.
She’s been beaten, raped, and has rope burns along her neck because she fought for men’s and women’s equality regardless of race, ethnicity, income, gender, sexual orientation and civil rights, many of which still aren’t given across all of her states. She’s still trying though men push her around and tell her what’s right and what’s wrong. She know the truth to a great nation.
And on her heart, she’s got a healing wound where the recent injury would have surely killed her as it did for many Americans on the morning of September 11th, 2001. But she knew that if she didn’t stand up for herself now, many of her children wouldn’t know what it would be like to have a great nation after such a traumatic experience and the horrible fate that would lead her taking orders from the man in the office, going to wars, and finally killing Osama Bin Laden.
All of her scars reminds her of her past everyday. She has her children learn all of her history in history classrooms because she wants to inspire each and every single one of them that she does have many horrible memories that she wished she didn’t have but that she also has many great success throughout her entirety of existence.
Right at this moment, she is on her knees, trying to prepare for the many riots and the outbursts of anger, frustration, and hate. She’s crying uncontrollably because all she wants for her children is to truly understand all of the pain they are inflicting on her and on themselves, if this should continue, then we as her children, have lost sight of what we truly used to be and she will no longer be a great nation.
A wise man once wrote for a major movie script:
“Fear is the path to the Dark Side.
Fear leads to Anger,
Anger leads to Hate,
Hate leads to Suffering.”
And again:
“You will know (the good from the bad) when you are calm, at peace. Passive. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.”
Yes these quotes are from the movies Star Wars but that does not mean they should be ignored.
These are quotes that everyone should live by because they are truly meant for the Human beings we are. We have so much power in such a little body, but when we add our powers with many other people, we have the power to destroy and to create the loving and peaceful environment that this Great Nation needs.
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