[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 145 (Friday, October 24, 1997)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2090]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            LIKE BETSY ROSS

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                           HON. DOUG BEREUTER

                              of nebraska

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, October 24, 1997

  Mr. BEREUTER Mr. Speaker, this Member highly commends to his 
colleagues the following poem by Miss Anne Louise Rezac, who is a third 
grader at East Butler Public School in my congressional district. The 
poem is entitled, ``Like Betsy Ross.'' Miss Rezac's poem was chosen for 
publication by the Mile High Poetry Society of Denver, CO, in its 
anthology of poems titled ``Muse.''

                            Like Betsy Ross

                         (By Anne Louise Rezac)

     Betsy made a flag out of colors, red, white, blue,
     Which sort of makes me feel, like I could do it too.
     On Tuesdays I would stitch, two hours before noon,
     and I would cut the blue part, in the month of June.
     In the month of July, I had few done,
     so I moved the stars on, one by one.
     Then who came to visit me,
     when I felt like a shrewd boss? Washington and Morris, and 
           John's uncle Ross.
     They had some news to tell me, about our nation's flag.
     I didn't want to dispute or begin to brag.
     I knew their news was true, every single word.
     Because when I was in school, that's the lesson I heard.
     When the men had left, and months and days went by,
     I had got the flag done! My oh my.
     I went to pursue Washington, to tell him my good news,
     and when I finally got there, he did not refuse.
     George used the flag when he went near and far,
     he even told the people what I used from the sewing jar.

     

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