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Somewhere between midnight and a frightened century dawn
I awoke from a fragile sleep, all my hopes an’ dreams were gone
Everything I once had in life ‘cept these few clothes on my back
Lost somewhere between Saigon and a Skid Row mission tract
They call me Joe American and I come from Dixie Land
Played a little football abd worked hard with my hands
Down here on 5th an’ Julian the future don’t look so bright
Lord knows, sure could use a little down home comfort tonight
A rebel son reborn on the wrong side of yesterday
Decorated soldier abandoned on Living Hell Street LA
Voices won’t let me rest and between memories recast
Lie fragments of my Virginia home buried in a distant past
They call me Joe American and I fought in the war
Lost both legs an’ my best friend, never questioned the reasons for
But down here on 5th an’ Julian the future don’t look so bright
Lord knows, sure could use a little down home comfort tonight
So take this letter on up to D.C. from a relative of Robert E. Lee
The family tree’s alive in Dixie; ain’t gonna let you turn your backs on me
Yeah, the call me Joe American and I come from Dixie Land
And I wrote this simple note, try’n to help ya'll understand
You know, after the war they treated Lee and other veterans right
Lord knows, sure could use a little down home comfort tonight
Lord knows, sure could use a little down home comfort tonight * ** ***
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National Coalition For The Homeless
National Law Center On Homelessness and Poverty
What manner of nation would use half of the world's resources, harbor much of the world's wealth, contain a large percentageof the world's educated elite, continue to build some of the world's most expensive (and entirely worthless) religious edifices, provide unwarranted tax breaks for the extremely wealthy top 1% of the population and an entertainment industry which routinely spends over one hundred million dollars to create meaningless motion picture drivel, claim to have the preferred form of government for the entire planet and to stand for truth and justice. . . and yet look the other way as impoverished homeless war veterans, senior citizen's and children are forced to sleep in cardboard boxes, in back alleyways, under bridges, in city parks and on city sidewalks? Will the country which Samuel Clemens referred to as the "land of bibles" go down in history as the one nation beyond all others, that devolved into an utter profane insult to the Creator of the universe?
*FootNote: Inspired by Orlando Ward of Midnight Mission, Los Angeles, California and Los Angeles Times reporter and friend of the forgotten children of Skid Row, Steve Lopez; dedicated to Operation Stand Down; Nashville, Tennessee.
**FootNote II: "Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy." Ezekiel 16:49. See also Fleeing Sodom for more details.
***FootNote III: Many modern intellectuals and liberal activists do not believe that the Creator will come down hard on a nation that does not make a concerted effort to help the sick and poor. People who vainly imagine that there is no Creator in control who does to nations as they do unto their own are even more insane than the current Bush Junior administration and the Christian Coalition combined (good luck).
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