In Our Country

In Our Country
 
We have made this nation
All different children women and men
Troubles part of its flirtations
Again and again
 
Why is the Civil War forgotten
Every time there is a trouble
A time in our history most rotten
Part of the country left in rubble
 
Recall the horrors of slavery
Families held against their will
And remember the bravery
Of those who fought to kill
 
618 thousand soldiers died
Or 6 million today
Many families cried
As their loved ones decayed
 
The country fought
Freedom for all
As we were taught
Please please recall
 
Protest today
Destroy and loot
Riot away
Most will stand moot
 
They let you forget
Families who paid
The blood of each vet
Long ago mislaid
 
Families lost loved ones
To protect our United States
Using their guns
To protect our fates
 
We can improve
But not with looting and shooting
Using education to make a gigantic move
Quit substituting and diluting
 
Substituting responsibility
And diluting our educations
Rebuild our countrys civility
And  our countrys foundations
 
Remember the sacrifices
Of our countrys residents
Their blood suffices
Those sacrifices were no accidents