She looms over all the people, her adopted children. She is large, yet graceful for all her height; far-seeing
eyes set in an intelligent, solemn face; a straight nose above full, unsmiling lips. Her hair is medium length with
two curls in front of her left ear. On her head is a crown. The gown she wears is long and off-white. In
one up-lifted hand is a torch, held aloft for all to see and come near to feel the warmth of liberty.
If she could think, feel and talk, what would she say about being a symbol of peace for an entire world? If
she could move, would she dance or drop in despair over the state of the sphere whose peace she represents?
She looks out to sea and welcomes all who come with a silent message of peace. Would she could turn inland and
face all her native children, her rebellious children, who make it possible for tales of unrest, violence and revolt to spread
outward from the shore she guards.
Young men and women leave our shores and often she is the last they ever see of their country. Would she weep,
knowing her young citizens go to die in a foreign land for a peace those at home defame? Facing inland, would she shout
and scold, crying, "Liberty is a freedom to dissent, not a freedom to destroy the peace and security of the country that gives
you that freedom. Or to make men and women feel their dying to protect your freedem is in vain?
What would the Statue of Liberty say to you?
