Show the retreat from lexington by DOUGLAS MALLOCH MAU OCH HEY called them minute men T THEY my son the minute men of lexington on and yet I 1 wonder in their smoke how many generations spoke for heroism Is not made and taught to youngsters like a trade the spark must burn a constant fire in fathers son and fathers sire today we need not talk of war now through pray god forever more we need not talk fall of yesterday but of the present well we may what generations will it take their heroism to unmake what generations like our own to make us soft and bring us ns prone what brought the roman koman to his knees it was not enemies but ease it was not poverty but gold for hearts grown greedy soon grow cold the moral letdown of a race does more than cannon to efface A nation from the crowded earth where wealth wealth Is honored more than worth our generation Is it then A builder or the bane of men not just to honor bonor but to learn we need the page of time to turn our generation to compare with those who now lie ile sleeping there do we march onward upward son or now retreat from lexington Le 0 0 1332 malloch service |