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Sunshine
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0 posted 2001-10-11 08:21 PM


Vigilance

strike a pose of vigilance
a posture of unending care
for all that would bring harm to us
we’ll show them they don’t dare

in semblance we will cautious be
in all we say and do
our times of being raucous and free
shall be earned as is our due

call to my attention, dear,
any observations you may make
and be alert in all you hear
as careful are the steps we take

we’re aware that vigilance
is a part of freedom, so we’re taught
so take a course in vigilance
for vigilantes we are not




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Nan
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1 posted 2001-10-11 08:27 PM


As I sit and watch the presidential news conference - I surely hope that we can each be aware and cautious - and stay well through these tenuous times... Be aware... Indeed...
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2 posted 2001-10-11 08:41 PM



You and me both, Nan, and the conference is from where this comes about...

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3 posted 2001-10-11 08:48 PM


we’re aware that vigilance
is a part of freedom, so we’re taught
so take a course in vigilance
for vigilantes we are not

How very true...well said.  ~NancyLee~

~I've loved you forever, in lifetimes before.~
  

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4 posted 2001-10-11 09:22 PM


One of the most pathetic lines I have ever seen in a newspaper was in the Miami Herald (of course) which read "In secret papers obtained from the White House......"

Many of our news agencies are showing their true colors and they are not red, white and blue  

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