This has been posted and buried on threads here and there, so I thought I'd run it on its own.
It was written September 18th.
Posted on 12/04/2001 11:32:51 AM PST by Sabertooth
Two Towers
Shattered in the blue dawn's early gleaming,
Steel and glass fall down one fateful morn.
Twin Towers burn in fires of hateful dreaming.
We wake to pyres of nightmares newly born.Now, rebel clerics fan the flaming rabble.
And yet, the Bell of Hope chimes. God, we hear it
Above the evil death-cult's towering babble,
Ringing to our heart, our mind, our spirit.So to our Towers our streaming faces turn,
Still standing on our bannered City's Hill--
As Root and Branch our enemies can't burn--
As Pen and Sword: the allies of our will.For God and Country stand our righteous Towers.
The Two are not Jihad's. The Two are ours.
This has been posted and buried on threads here and there, so I thought I'd run it on its own.
It was written September 18th.
I appreciate the heads up for these as I do appreciate poetry.
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CIA officer Mike Spann, in this undated family photo, is the first American known to be killed in combat in Afghanistan. Johnny ``Mike'' Spann, 32, who entered the Marine Corps and then joined the CIA in June 1999, was killed in action during a prison riot at Mazar-e-Sharif. His body was recovered Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001 the CIA said, without providing details on the circumstances of Spann's death. (AP Photo/Fanmily Photo via the CIA)
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