September 11, 2011; A decade to remember
9/11
What does that date mean to me?
It means that this world doesn’t revolve around me
That my problems don’t really matter in the grand scale
Because my life is a very small scale
And the issues are even smaller
So don’t focus on what’s not important
Because one day out of the blue
Some angry people can fly a plane
Head towards your work building and plow right in
Because one day out of the blue
You could die
So what does that day mean to me?
It means that life is sacred
So treat it reverently
Live it to it’s potential
Like so many did
On their last day
When they knew what life meant to them
On 9/11
- Written By Mary C.
Let us never forget those who died at the Pentagon, Trade centers, Flight 93,flight 175, flight 77, in NYC, and across the sea for our country. Let us never forget the fire fighters who put out the flames of despair and gave a last measure of devotion to us. Let us never forget every soul that was ruthlessly taken. Let us never feel apathy on this day or when we hear of it. Let us tell our children and their children, for the fatherless and motherless ones. Let never forget the tears that were shed when the young learned their father would not come home from work. Let it be engraved into our hearts forever, for if we forget to honor them, then they truly won. Let us not give them victory. Victory belongs to the dead.
"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." -Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Adress
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