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Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

0 posted 2008-09-10 02:01 PM

The wild, grinning face of terrorism
has shown itself in America
in an assault we cannot dismiss.
Leering from a smoking abyss
of rotting bodies and twisted steel,
this evil visage is chillingly real
...for the fallen.
America must now confront her destiny.
For the time has come,
September 11, 2001.
While she weeps for what has been done,
mass murder has left her no choice,
her people must speak with one voice
...for the fallen.

Ida Werrett

I wrote this the day after 9/11 while I was feeling very shocked and angry.

TheAnonDavid
Member

since 2008-08-28

Posts 237
UK

1 posted 2008-09-10 02:56 PM

The sinister web of international terrorism is now a worldwide phenomenon as my own country has also discovered. How many tears must we shed before the world remembers the days of innocence it has lost? Let us not hope that those tears do not last forever.

[This message has been edited by TheAnonDavid (09-10-2008 04:01 PM).]

Ericc
Member Elite

since 2003-01-31

Posts 4178

2 posted 2008-09-10 03:26 PM

Very powerful.

Eric

WTBAKELAR

Senior Member

since 2008-09-09

Posts 1089
Utah, USA

3 posted 2008-09-10 03:50 PM

They say it's time to forget. I say never. Never forget, never forgive. Never let down our guard again. Stand up and fight for the very freedom that they are slowly but surely taking everyday. I want to see more, everyone needs to be reminded. THIS IS AMERICA, THE GREATEST LAND ON MOTHER EARTH. IF WE WANT HER, WE NEED TO FIGHT TO KEEP HER. nobody ever won a battle by laying down and giving in to the enemy. Hurah!

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

4 posted 2008-09-10 04:47 PM

Yo dear Ida,

Yes, as far as anyone knows, Bin Laden is still out here.

In the meantime, we're in Iraq bothering people that never harmed us.

Love Bobby

WTBAKELAR

Senior Member

since 2008-09-09

Posts 1089
Utah, USA

5 posted 2008-09-10 06:01 PM

Robert, dear robert, We are not bothering the Iraqi people. We are there to help them establish an independent political democracy, free of terrorism and fear of repression. We are fighting for them. not against them. You are smarter than that.

PrestonThePoet
Member

since 2007-11-07

Posts 87

6 posted 2008-09-11 10:55 PM

Powerful words on such a rememberable day.

I couldnt have said it better myself.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

7 posted 2008-09-12 01:06 AM

Well said, Ida. The horror of what the human race does to itself, doesn't fade.

- Owl

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

8 posted 2008-09-12 06:44 AM

I join you, dear Ida, in a loving embrace of the (((((fallen))))). The Path towards the recognition of the divine spark in every single human seems still so long ... if we felt the oneness, in the awareness of being all from the same divine Source, we would finally stop killing each other.

Thank you for this.

Love,
Margherita

"Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love."
(Rumi)

K-K
Member

since 2008-03-13

Posts 153
Indiana

9 posted 2008-09-12 10:27 AM

Truly touching and amazing words!!!!

WTBAKELAR

Senior Member

since 2008-09-09

Posts 1089
Utah, USA

10 posted 2008-09-12 01:34 PM

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our childrens's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
"Ronald Reagan"

ramisf
Member

since 2007-05-17

Posts 93

11 posted 2008-09-20 12:23 PM

Great my friend; it is a shame to let a bunch of terrorists live in the virgin land of America. What they did is because they envy the land of civilization the land of advanced technology and political power.

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