
Self-proclaimed MAGA American Patriots?
Living-room political armchair Generals
High on their nationalistic credentials from guns anti-refugee fervor and fentanyl?
Have never served a day
Nay! Even a minute in service!
Either as volunteer
Officer or conscript
Is this why your undying conception of soldier and citizen is flipped?
Patriotic Soldiers salute the flag!
As part of their duty to honor and protect their Motherland
Great American citizens
With hand over heart
Commit democratically to defend the right
To protest!
On economic
Social and political issues
When deemed justly necessary as Citizen emissaries to make a moral stand
The military was composed
To ensure the American Liberty Bell will always ring!
It is my fervent distinction to have served in the United States Army 101st Airborne division – 320th Field Artillery
Defending the rights so hard fought for in American history past
Via such esteemed Americans as Frederick Douglass
John Brown
Malcolm X
Sojourner Truth
Doris Day
Helen Keller
Muhammad Ali
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
Susan B. Anthony
Mother Jones
And Dr. Martin Luther King