text: The "poetic sentiment" expressed in the words inscribed on the Statue of Liberty represent the traditional values of the United States - the beacon on the hill, the hope of millions from many generations, most likely including your own immigrant ancestors. A country founded to give refuge to those oppressed in numerous ways. 
  
   The current administration represents a betrayal of traditional American values, the values that made us great. Those values are being trashed.  Will America ever come back from the ongoing  events that are destroying our values? Will America again be great - the greatest nation on earth?  If this goes on for too long, it seems the America that was great will simply become a memory, a part of history. 
  
   I grieve for my country. I also grieve that people who claim to be christians - people who follow Christ's teachings - seem to have forgotten all that Jesus taught.