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I_am_Him 60M
19 posts
9/10/2021 8:47 pm
PLEASE PAY YOUR TRIBUTE TO AMERICA'S 9/11 SAD HISTORY TODAY!

AMERICA STANDING TALL AND PROUD

SIXTEEN PRIME MANHATTAN ACRES,
YET TWO VERY SEPERATE PLOTS
ONE BUILT UPON FOR 35 GREAT YEARS
THE OTHER MOST CERTAINLY NOT

MAJESTIC SIDE BY SIDE TWIN TOWERS
REACHING SKYWARD PROUD AND TALL
WHOM EVER COULD HAVE BEGUN TO IMAGINE
THAT FATEFUL DAY, BOTH WOULD SURELY FALL

GIVEN THEIR VERY OWN ZIP CODE
WHICH SIMPLY READ NYC 10048
60 WORKERS DIED IN BUILDING THEM
JUST NORMAL MODERN HIGH RISE FATE

WHO EVER COULD HAVE IMAGINED
OVER 3,000 MORE PEOPLE WOULD PERISH
THAT 9/11 DAY OF COWARDLY TERRORISTS ACTS
DESTROYING WHAT AMERICA SO DEARLY CHERISHED

343 TRULY GALLANT NEW YORK CITY FIREFIGHTERS
BRAVING ALL THOSE RISKS AND JET FUELED FLAMES
THEY ALL TOOK TO UPPER LEVEL STAIRWELLS
THAT BROUGHT BIN LADEN INSTANT FAME

YES IT WAS INDEED A VERY STORIED DAY
MIXED WITH COWARDS AND TRUE HERO'S
THAT SEPTEMBER MORNING, WHEN WITHOUT WARNING
THE COLLASPE OF BOTH CAME RIGHT AT GROUND ZERO

BUT FROM ASHES SOMETIMES RISES
GREAT HOPES TO START AGAIN ANEW
WHILE THIS MAJOR BATTLE WAS CERTAINLY LOST
THE TERRORIST WAR WAS NOT QUITE THROUGH

SO THE NEW FREEDOM TOWER PLANS
WERE UNVEILED JULY 4TH OF 2004
AMENDED IN 2006 FOR BETTER CAUSE
WAS ONE WORLD TRADE, WITH ITS 108 NEW FLOOR’S

A MARVEL OF SUCH MODERN ENGINEERING
TRULY AN UNIMAGINABLE BUILDING FEAT
ITS SPIRE WOULD REACH UP SKYWARD
TO MEASURE EXACTLY, 76 PATRIOTIC FEET

WHILE COMPLETION IS YET A FEW YEARS AWAY
BEFORE OLD GLORY WILL BE PROUDLY FLOWN
SYMBOLISTIC OF UNDYING FREEDOM AND COURAGE
THAT AMERICA'S HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN!

by yours truly started on Tuesday Sept 18 2001
the day my dad was laid rest after passing away
in a CONCORD New Hampshire hospice house with his very
last frightful thoughts in his still keen 86 year old key mind
being that his AMERICA IS UNDER ATTACK!

revised and edited in March of 2011 and 20 One Trade was dedicated on the twin towers very sight.





I_am_Him 60M
27 posts
9/10/2021 8:59 pm

This poem of mine never went viral like my IN THE LAND THAT MADE ME ME one did.
Its contents were gathered from the Google Search Engine with the many questions I asked.

How large was the Towers sight, How long had it stood, how many firemen died that day, ect. ect. many facts I tied together in order to fully compose it.

Today exactly 20 years later, we Americans also Stand Proud and Tall united in a state called Patriotism