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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457548" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lest We Forget [11 September 2001, A Requiem]</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through a hatred borne of fear, you plotted your course; <br>With each 'Freedom' as fodder, your animus grew worse; <br>Your ignorance cannot be countered with rational debate, <br>It is your fundamental flaw-you hate, for the sake of hate! <br>One tragic, late Summer day, whose infamy you ensured, <br>You destroyed a treasured symbol-and though now cured, <br>Inculcated great fear-not to mention the lives you have taken! <br>We are resolute and unafeared, where once, we were shaken.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your victory was pyrrhic, and very short-lived-<br>For, our time for righteous retribution soon arrived! <br>You awakened a sleeping lion, from His peaceable sleep, <br>And now, your total annhilation is a promise we shall keep, <br>To the humble and brave families of those we have lost; <br>We are 'One Nation, Under God' that you should have never crossed! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Millions of heroes, from cities and towns both far and wide, <br>Each with an indefatigable sense of American pride, <br>Have assembled from disparate lives, to fight side by side, <br>To honor the memory of those who tragically died! <br>They were very real people, from every station in life, <br>Whose loss, to this very day, still cuts like a knife, <br>Through the collective consciousness of the entire world; <br>Now, as a nation of nations, under a single flag unfurled, <br>We have gathered e'er more strength and fortitude still; <br>If we can not defeat with sheer might, our attitude will! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are the embodiment of all you have taken from us-<br>Your diabolical deeds have surely shaken our trust<br>In the inherent goodness of man-shame on you! <br>The man in the mirror is culpable-yes, the blame's on you, <br>And you alone, for all the destruction and innocence you have taken; <br>You may never rebuild the trust that you have foresaken! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our loss is profound, yet strengthens our resolve-<br>So long as, around the Sun, the Earth does revolve, <br>Your's is not an ideology that will capture a greater stage, <br>Only the rebuke of a righteous people, as well as their greater rage! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">May we never forget what the world truly lost that day: <br>The citizens of the world, who paid a cost, that may<br>Never be repaid, as precious lives may not be replaced! <br>We must ensure that their memories are never effaced-<br>That we live lives, about which they could be proud<br>And hold fast to the promises that, to them, we've avowed! <br>For, it is for them and in memory of their grace<br>That we tempered our response to the right time and proper place, <br>Where hate mongers have tried to make it about religion and race! <br>This is the only way we may look our children in the face: <br>With the knowledge that our response was proper, and our force was right-<br>In the face of pure evil, we constrained our righteous might! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We honor those lost, always, lest we ever forget! <br>For all that for which they lived, we will never forfeit<br>The values they taught us, while they were living: <br>Love, patience, tolerance, and a perpetual Thanksgiving<br>For all the wonder that life had ever offered! <br>This is worthy a refrain, lest your heart still be coffered<br>By a misplaced animus for a phantom menace; <br>That is the fundamental difference we have between us: <br>The ability to know what is right and what is wrong-<br>It is what makes you weak, and us, strong! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">-Maurice Harris,11 September 2011</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Maurice+Harris">Maurice Harris</a><div class=q>
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With each 'Freedom' as fodder, your animus grew worse; 
Your ignorance cannot be countered with rational debate, 
It is your fundamental flaw-you hate, for the sake of hate! 
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