By God, The President Can Execute a Snappy Salute - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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The Man Can Execute a Snappy Salute

 

By God, the man can execute a snappy salute

Though he never made the first day of boot camp

Maybe he learned to salute from watching Patton

Or John Wayne movies, over and over

 

By God, the man can execute a snappy salute

Even while propped up by his briefcase boys

Showing off his practiced thousand-yard stare

While thirteen flag-covered coffins are carried by

 

By God, the man can execute a snappy salute -

And the brave young people who trusted him