How Do You Measure a Patriot? – A Poem For Our Fathers
My father died when I was six. He had pancreatic cancer.
In 1982, his form of cancer was nearly untreatable.
His early death was almost certain.
We were all too young, but that was how it was then.
In 2009, for many of our nation’s fathers, greed and politics have become the deadly diseases.
Because of businessmen and those who serve them in our government –
America’s sickest and poorest are denied medical care.
Still more families are suffocated by insurmountable debts.
Who among you would deny a child’s father more time on this glorious Earth?
This is not a health care legislation issue.
This is not an economic issue.
This is a human rights issue!
We must value every American citizen’s life!
Our country is sick, let us care for all of her children!
How do you measure a patriot?
Measure him by his compassion for his fellow citizen!
“America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.” – Walter Cronkite
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