In Memoriam

What happened seven years ago was awful. The feelings we felt then are indescribable. I understand the fear and the sorrow and the patriotism. I do not, however, understand the way this day has been used as a political tool ever since. If I don't give in to nationalistic fervor, then I don't care about what happened on 9/11 or the suffering our troops have endured. If want to end the war, then I don't care about freedom or fighting terrorism in the name of our lost loved ones. I'm disgusted with it. I love this country, and because I love this country, I'm not voting for the party that promotes war and does nothing substantial to keep us safer. I deplore the despicable scare tactics that have been used lately to imply that voting Republican is the only way to protect this nation. Here's how I choose to commemorate today:

"The New America"
Bad Religion

Do you know the cost of future misery?
Have you lost your sense of sustainability?
We are just a step away from realizing what we strive to be,
but we've got to break out from this insulated, blind, and lame senility.

Wake up the new America!
Transcend the mass hysteria.
Change is the thing you're wary of.
We need a new America!

Laurels, human triumph, bestowments from the past--
Victories don't mean a thing if they don't last!
We are just marching toward extinction with blinders on our eyes,
jeopardizing everything we've learned and come to realize! You call that wise?

Open your eyes, America!
See through the lies they tell to us!
Confront the fears that worry us!
We need a new America!

We don't have to be afraid to re-invent.
We've got to start to build, progress, and implement.
For when we take our fill, and never pay the price,
we only build ourselves a fleeting, false paradise.

You can live in staunch denial and mark me as your enemy,
but I'm just a voice among the throng who want a brighter destiny.
They say with me:

We are the new America!
This is the new America!
We are the new America!
This is the new America!