ARE YOU OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER AMERICA?

["Gerald Marisch" <gm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The following was found in some work papers from 25+ years ago.  I wish I
could claim authorship.  The author is unknown.  In today's venue of America
being attacked from within and without, maybe there's some truth in...

ARE YOU OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER AMERICA?
-    When you never dreamed your country could loose?
-    When you left your front door opened?
-    When you went to church and the preacher preached from the Bible?
-    When a boy was a boy and a girl was a girl, and you could tell them
apart?
-    When the word "Socialism" was a dirty word?
-    When you were embarrassed to be described as a "Liberal"?
-    When the poor were too proud to take charity?
-    When a nickel was worth 5 cents?
-    When you bragged about your hometown, your state and your Nation?
-    When the flag was a sacred symbol?
-    When the government stood up for America?
-    When the man who went wrong was to blame; not his mother's nursing
habits or his father's                 income?
-    When everyone knew right from wrong?
-    When things were not perfect, and you didn't expect them to be?
-    When people still had the capacity for indignation?
-    When "sick" meant that you were not feeling well?
-    When people expected less and valued what they had more?
-    When everyone was not entitled to an annual wage, whether he worked or
not?
-    When a man's word was his bond?
-    When America was the land of the free and the home of the brave?
-    When fewer words were needed to say what you meant (this one is for
politicians everywhere)?

If you spend as much time doing the things you worry about getting done, as
you do worrying about doing them, you wouldn't have anything to worry about.