Dwight Eisenhower
Perhaps if you had not held back, 27 million
Russians would not have died.. fighting the Nazis..
67 times as many as the US losses?
Perhaps if you had not held back for 8 months in 1944
souls would not have died in death camps
Perhaps if you had a kinder childhood, you would
not have ordered cats on the White House grounds shot..
but we are grateful that you did not go to war with China
Abraham Lincoln
Now, Abe, you know the mistakes you made...
letting rich buy draft exemptions.. while hanging the poor
.. in order to become elected you told Southern slave owners
you considered it a constitutional duty to
round up runaway slaves..
all the horses gored in battle.. all the men
rotting in the fields..
if you had wanted perhaps you could have found a better
way
Thomas Jefferson
O Thomas.. you point out the disparities in us all..
you wrote an abolition of slavery clause in the Declaration..
yet your peers defeated it.. even so you were paying
for bounty men to round up your run away slaves..
you promised freedom to your children by Sally Hemings..
but 200 of your slaves were sold at auction at your death
You took Sally to Paris.. where she was free..
You showed love to your white granchildren.. but not
to your black children.
The water by the Jefferson Memorial.. is the reflecting
water of Sally Hemings.. eternal woman.. receiving
insult after insult.. never responding.