THE UNREPLACEABLE MAN

THERE WOULD BE NO SOJOURNER TRUTH

NO BETSY ROSS

OR BABY RUTH

IF IT HADN’T BEEN FOR GEORGE.

NO INDEPENDENCE DECLARATION

OR ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

IF IT HADN’T BEEN FOR GEORGE.

WHILE OTHERS FOUGHT AND BANDIED WORDS,

LIKE TORY, TRAITORS DIRTY BIRDS

GEORGE MAINTAINED QUIET DIGNITY

AN ANCIENT SACHEM WITH SECOND SIGHT

PREDICTED THAT GEORGE WOULD WIN THE FIGHT.

“A FATHER OF MANY NATIONS HE,

SPREADING THE FLAME OF LIBERTY.”

THE SACHEM’S OTHER PROPHESY:

“WOUNDED IN BATTLE HE’LL NEVER BE.”

BECAUSE HE WAS INDESPENSIBLE.

HIS PERSEVERANCE NEVER FAILED

EVEN WHEN HE BADLY TRAILED

LONG ISLAND, TRENTON, VALLEY FORGE,

PUSHING FORWARD WAS OUR GEORGE.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN WOULD’VE BEEN

JUST A RAILSPLITTER WITHOUT HIM.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY, MARTIN LUTHER KING,

JIMMY DOOLITTLE, JANETTE RANKIN

NO ONE WOULD’VE EVER HEARD OF THEM

EXCEPT FOR GEORGE’S GIVEN WORD.

HE SAID:

“I WON’T ACCEPT THE CROWN OF A KING.”

NO ONE HAD EVER SAID SUCH A THING !

HIS CHARACTER AND INTEGRITY

CREATED A LAND WHERE MEN COULD BE FREE

AND NONE OF THIS WOULD’VE HAPPENED,

IF IT HADN’T BEEN FOR GEORGE.

By Helen McCaffrey