Green Card Soldier
the seasonal migrant worker
an unwed mother in Texas
her temporary work visa again expires
sending her back across the border
in order to have a better life
than his first eighteen years
she allowed her teenaged son
to stay and join the U.S. Army
fighting to become an American
by becoming an American fighting man
he died for this country
and became a U.S. citizen... posthumously.
—Carl Palmer
For copy of actual issue, go to https://www.realchangenews.org/2007/01/10/jan-10-2007-entire-issue