WE CAN FORGIVE ~ BUT WE MUST NEVER FORGET ~ AMEN
ON 11th SEPTEMBER 2001 ~ Terrorism not only
destroyed an ICONIC Building and the Lives of
3000 innocent Citizens of the World. It destroyed
Humanities belief in Humanity and made all our
Lives unstable for ever ~ BRIAN WILLIAMS !
9/11 2001 ~ 7:30 am in DE MOINS IOWA watching TV
With American Friends ~ safest place on EARTH !
8:42 am BOEING 767 crashes into N Tower ~ Accident ?
9:03 am BOEING 767 crashes into S Tower ~ TERRORISM !
We watch in horror ~ Our American Friends are crying
9:59 am SOUTH TOWER collapses like a Pack of Cards
10:23 am NORTH TOWER collapses ~ 3000 Lives are lost.
All in less than 2 hours ~ AMERICA is in shutdown & meltdown !
SHE has never recovered ~ Not even TRUMP cannot restore HER
The Memory of that fatal day ~ violation of NEW YORK ~ NEW YORK
and an UNHOLY DESECRATION of GOD's OWN COUNTRY ~ WHY ?
The Memory of that fatal day ~ Will live in our hearts FOREVER !
As we travelled through AMERICA (by car) after 9/11 ~ We saw
A POSTER in Austin Texas ~ saying ~ GOD BLESS NEW YORK ~ AMEN
Thanks for visiting ~ memories welcome ~ Love USA ~ BRIAN XOX
WE VISITED Ground Zero in 2002 with our UK Friend PAUL
whose office was on the 101 floor in N Tower ~ Thank GOD
he was away on business on 9/11. He shed many tears for
his lost Colleagues. In 2016 we visited the New Tower (Thats
the American Way ~ knocked down but never knocked out !)
and the MEMORIAL on the footprints of the Towers. Very stark
but in essence very appropriate. Two continuous Waterfalls
disappearing into BLACK HOLES ~ Pray for the USA ~ AMEN
This Poem is presented as a Free Verse ~ LAMENT SONNET ~ OK
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Caro Amico Brian,
GRAZIE!🙏🏻🇺🇸
Abbracci e Baci...
~Laura~
CAIO LAURA ~ per tu comento ~ Pleased you liked it. Abbracci e Baci con amore BRIAN 😎 e ANGELA 🧡
A fine tribute Brian.
Thanks UNCLE STEVE ~ Pleased you appreciated it ~ YOURS BRIAN
Beautifully expressed Brian.
THANKS UNCLE MIKE ~ The pictures of People Jumping (to certain Death) and the actual collapse of the TOWERS (with the loss of 3000 lives) so early in the MORNING (approx 10 ~ 10:30 am) when folk had just got into work ~ will haunt me for ever ~ Maybe in the UK @ 3pm it seemed less horrific and 3000 miles away ? Thanks for your comment ~ one does stick ones neck out commenting on American History on an American Poetry Site ! Yours as always BRIAN
I remember 9/11 as though it were the other day. My first class of the day started. I was in eighth grade science. Then the school phone in the class rung, and our next door teacher rushed through the door yelling, "Quick! Turn on the news! Turn on the news". My teacher Miss Stone quickly turned on the class TV. and the channel was already on the news. We turned it on just in time to see the second plane crash into the twin tower live. I remember seeing my teacher put both of her hands over her mouth. For about the first few hours, I do not think a lot of the kids, including myself, realized the severity of the situation. They were all making jokes at first, but at the time it seemed so unreal.
Thanks DION ~ Very scary indeed for an Eighth Grader ~ but I guess in many Christians Minds it was really ARMAGEDDON. I was 18 and already a Student of 20th C History. A few days later we went to an ECUMENICAL SERVICE @ MOUNT RUSHMORE. The Native American Christians (all in their regalia) had made a huge DRUM (more than 6ft in diameter !). Before they banged and danced & sang for the LORD the Chief explained ! Something EARTH shaking has happened in New York ~ GOD must be mighty displeased with the USA so he has chastised us real BAD ~ So we make bigger DRUM ! When we bang the drum ~ God listen ~ We say very SORRY and promise to REFORM ~ AMEN There are so so many stories coming out of 9/11. Thanks Yours BRIAN.
Thank you for that beautiful tribute. I remember that day very well. I'll never forget it.
Hola CHRIS ~ ~We must never forget ~ it was the Dawn of the Age of Terrorism ~ and it showed how easily the greatest security system in the World could be breached by a neutral everyday object like a Passenger Plane ~ with dire consequences etc. Since then terrorists have used Lorries ~ Cars etc etc. Thanks for your generous comment ~ Abrazos y Besos Tu Amigo especial 🧡 ~ BRIAN
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