OUR FREEDOM WASN'T FREE

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OUR FREEDOM WASN'T FREE

*Our Freedom Wasn't Free*

American Patriots

Have you ever wondered
What happened to the men.
Who signed the Declaration
That made this a free land.
~*~
Five were captured by the British.
Branded traitors, tortured, died.
Twelve men lost their homes and land.
Ransacked, burned what was their pride.
~*~
Two their sons were captured.
Two sons fought and died.
Nine killed in the Revolutionary.
Pledged their fortunes and their lives.
~*~
Twenty-four were Jurists and
Lawyers brave and true.
Eleven of them merchants.
Nine farmers all who knew.
~ *~
If captured death was eminent.
To sign with quill and pen.
Have you ever wondered
What happened to these men?
~ *~
Their livelihoods were ruined.
And their ships swept from the sea.
Stood against the British Navy.
Our freedom wasn't free!
~*~
Have you ever wondered
What happened to the men.
Those Patriots of long ago.
Could you be as brave as them...?

MAFLongfellow

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duty commented on OUR FREEDOM WASN'T FREE

02-28-2009

Thank You.....duty

MAFLongfellow

07/17/2009

THANK YOU FOR SERVING U R A PATRIOT, GOD BLESS

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

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