A dog's monument

(Entered in "Something Worth Writing)
At Gettysburg Lincoln stated that four
score and seven years before a nation
was brought forth, conceived in liberty,
and dedicated to the proposition that
all men are created equal. He dedicated
the ground for those who gave their
lives that that nation might live.
Four score and nine years ago, 20 men
and their sled dogs risked their lives in
what later became famous as "The
Great Race of Mercy" to bring hope to
the diphtheria-stricken town of Nome.
This heroic deed was honoured by a
bronze statue of Balto, the lead dog of
the final sled in that relay.
What kind of monument should be
erected, four score and eight years
from now, to remember that we
hesitated to give some money for the
fight against famine, thirst, and disease
that humanity of the people, by the
people, for the people shall not perish
from the earth? A piggy bank?