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story2863.xml
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911DA Story: Story
September 11, 2001: Twin Towers Tragedy- WTC Catastrophe
Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United
(1) Maniacal terrorists strike at the big apple of America?s eye.
Famed majestic landmarks, the Twin Towers crumble,
imploding into billions of bits of molten steel, jagged glass,
seared human flesh, and flailing broken bones. Escaping
spiked and surging fire balls, staff vaulted through windows.
A canine-toothed wing of the Pentagon is broken in the aftermath
of the devastation: a massive death toll of innocents remains
lodged, buried alive, fifty feet under, feeling the cold-bloodied
hard rubble, a steely glint of hope, five warm-blooded survivors
are unearthed. Every save a divine miracle. Subways evacuate.
First-aid crews take to the streets and man the flaming towers.
Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United.
(2) Flattened, the first company of New York City?s finest fire
fighters, police, and first-aid crews CRASH and BURN inside the
cascading avalanche of steel daggers. The 110-story Twin Towers
are brought to their saber knees and then to their foiled ankles.
Grieving, a 47-story sister building 7, collapses in distress into ragged
ruins. Billowing, nearby brother buildings in the zone remain ablaze.
WTC mass exodus: pyre and plumes of smoke hover, flying concrete
shards and soot, repugnant jet fuel, raining dust and debris, thousands
of frightful fleeing bystanders are entombed. Fatalities, makeshift morgues
ferry the sacrificial corpses to New Jersey. The Pile, 1.2 billion tons of
scorched scraps are hauled to The Hill of Fresh Kills Landfill. DNA matches:
a gruesome, grueling, and grisly task, steam still rising, pickaxes poke
for parts. Dogs sniff and succor. Ground Zero: dug-up remains are draped
with the U.S.A. flag, saluted, and reburied. Every find a divine miracle.
A carnivorous crater, vestiges of an office complex, in the dangerous
pit of dignified souls, hard hat archaeologists dig among the ruins:bodies
30 feet below ground: 10 fearless firemen, 3 fearful civilians. High-flying
stars and stripes fly low at half staff. Busy bees swarming, scalpeled
surgeons, bedpan nurses, and selfless volunteers man the hospitals.
Boiling, vigorous New Yorkers, from every mosaic melting hot pot
take to the streets and wait for hours to donate their warm vital blood.
Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United.
(3) Slamming, ramming into Grade A U.S. Steel,
four American jumbo jets are commandeered:
flight crews are maced; by razor blade box cutters,
pilots are knifed, passengers use their cell phones:
?I Love You? are their final words. Diabolical,
suicide bombers -- American men, women, and
children transfigured into four human missiles:
Flight 11, Boeing 767, Boston to L.A.,
81 Americans, eleven crew members, CRASH
and BURN, into the north tower, N.Y.C.
Flight 175, Boeing 767, Boston to L.A.,
56 Americans, nine crew members, CRASH
and BURN, into the south tower, N.Y.C.
Flight 77, Boeing 757, Washington to L.A.,
58 Americans, six crew members, CRASH
and BURN, into the Pentagon, in D.C.
Flight 93, Boeing 757, N.J. to San Francisco,
38 Americans, seven crew members, CRASH
and BURN, into an empty field, in PA., by unsung heroes:?Let?s Roll!?
Federal aviation officials ground flights: planes dip, drive, and nose-dive
at the nearest airport. Soaring sky high, safe and sound, squawking
seagulls with whimpering wings remain in flight and brave the fight.
Zippered up, bridges, tunnels, and highways lock gates. Fiercely,
five warships, frigate ships, and aiming bull's-eye, guided missile
destroyers man the N.Y. coast: Two aircraft carriers: USS George
Washington and USS John F. Kennedy man the N.Y. skies. Operation
Noble Eagle: combat air patrol to shoot-em-up and shoot-em-down.
In steely determination, it is business, but not business as usual.
Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United.
(4) It is more than a terrorist attack -
It is an act of war! It is a national tragedy!
The free and democratic world is attacked:
White House evacuates.
United Nations evacuates.
Treasury evacuates.
State Department evacuates.
Justice Department evacuates.
World Bank evacuates.
All Federal office buildings evacuate.
Israel evacuates all diplomatic missions - 12 months of merciless jihad:
soulless suicide bombers maim, mutilate, and murder Jews.
All N.Y. State government offices evacuate.
New York?s primary elections are postponed.
Trading is suspended: The American Stock Exchange,
Nasdaq, and New York Stock Exchange. 110 stories,
Chicago?s Sears Tower evacuates. Homeless, a
frozen zone, 20,000 N.Y.C. residents are displaced.
Chartering a Saudi jet, 11 Bostonian bin Ladens evacuate.
Slumbering, F.B.I., C.I.A., I.N.S., and N.S.A. agents rouse. It is
the first war of the 21st century! No-man's land, hermetically sealed,
the President of the U.S.A. is whisked away. Blinding black smoke and
clouds raining ash, heroic, Lady Liberty stands tall in the New York Harbor.
Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United.
(5) Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani addresses New York:
?Deaths are more than any of us can bear.?
Senator Hillary D. Rodham Clinton addresses New York:
?We will not be cowed by evil, despicable acts of terror.?
President George W. Bush addresses the nation:
?These acts shattered steel but they
cannot dent the steel of American resolve.?
?We will make no distinction between the terrorists
who committed these acts and those who harbored them.?
"Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring
justice to our enemies, justice will be done."
Nefarious doings, suspect numero uno is "The Evil One," cannibal Saudi militant
Osama bin Laden and his vile circus of vicious cavemen. Virulent videos, visible,
rallying all Muslims with venom and vitriol: "God Willing, America's end is near...?
Upward United We Stand: Operation Infinite Justice: seek and destroy Al Qaeda.
Operation Enduring Freedom: target cells, villainous metastasizing cancers.
Flight 93 terrorist manhunt: 20th hijacker(?) Ramzi Omar or Binalshibh(?)
Americans man their maps and ask: Where the Hell(?) is Afghanistan(?)
WW III: Worldwide Coalition Bombers vs. Terror-Bender Troglodytes.
Oct 7th: Billion dollar bombs drop. Tora Bora caves are wiped off the map.
Biological, nuclear, and radiological weapons. Inhalation. Evacuation. Annihilation.
"Our nation, in our fight against terrorism, will uphold the doctrine of either
you're with us or against us." "And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air"
"America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for
freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from
shining." "God Bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her..."
Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United.
(6) Heaven sent, where 70 virgins await each Islamic martyr
on a homicidal-suicidal mission, 19 corrosive terrorists pulverize
into an Arabian desert sand storm: desolate and deserted; no bad
guys; no car chase; no planes; no black boxes, no survivors, no
witnesses, no testimonies, no revenge to seek; no justice to exact;
no war to win; and no Hollywood movie. Arise. Awake. New world
order and Office of Homeland Security: cockpit dead bolts,
armed pilots and martial art stewardesses, no curb side
check-in and Arab profiling strip searches. An inferno, charred
bodies incinerate into ashes, few funerals, many memorial
tributes, urns of WTC dirt comfort. Cremated. Sobbing. Closure.
Weeping widows, wailing orphans, donations flood the Red Cross.
International terrorism: a worldwide menace. Terrorists: a worldwide
monstrosity. Arise. Reborn. One true empyrean: a phoenix, names of loved
ones are inscribed on the walls of the observation deck, sacred ground, a shrine,
the hatched angels hover, protecting the Twin Towers rebuilt. Lighting a blowtorch,
ironworkers, engineers, teamsters, laborers, and dock builders take turns...
Last steel column of 2WTC, 58 tons, no. 1,001B, is cut down at 8:17 p.m.
Heartbroken, resting in peace, archangel-chief architect Minoru Yamasaki said,
"A beautiful solution of form and silhouette." WorldWISE: democracy, liberty,
freedom, love, prosperity, goodness, security, and peace, ?We Shall Overcome.?
Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United.
(7) A cataclysmic collision course between good and evil; angels aflight and
devils afoot. "Thou Shalt Not Murder," the first set of twin tablets of the Ten
Commandments crumble into rubble, and are reengraved: Operation Infinite
Circle. Singed aftershocks: fear, disbelief, terror, rage, grief, depression, revenge,
numbness, and nightmares. Twin Tower totals: 90,000 tourists a day, 50,000
employed; 25,000 rescued; 35,000 in subway evacuated; and two-thirds empty
airplanes. 8,700 casualties, each story a miracle: a raging fire ball, 82% of her
body burned, Lauren Manning lives. Fatalities from 80 nations, 343 firefighters,
265 on airplanes, 125 at Pentagon, mournfully, 3,000 consumed. Outstretched,
GOD?s hand of mercy, love, compassion, and nerves of steel, vanquished the
evil incarnate, ?GOD WILLING.?
Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United.
"Allah Be Praised": Deliverance of Videotape of Guilty and Gloating Murderers. A Modern Day MIRACLE. Amen. "GOD is Great": Evil one, Osama bin Laden is Extinguished. America Gets the Last Laugh and the Final Burn. THE END. Operation Stars & Stripes Forever: U.S.A. Flame of Liberty and Justice Burns Eternal. Long Live the U.S.A.
Poetry note: each of the seven verses spirals downward and then spirals upward.
The Sole Intention of My Poetry is to Add LIGHT to Your Soul
Sharon Esther Lampert
Poet, Philosopher, Politician, Prophet and Princess
(Kadimah, The Tribal Princess of Israel)
BIO: "My Life is an OPENBook, to KNOWMe is to READMe"
http://www.poetryjewels.com
MOREThan You EVERWanted to KNOWAbout Me
E-mail: princesskadimah@hotmail.com
Special note of gratitude to my darling muse, A. Cohen,
and my dear proofreaders: mystical F. Fojas,
magical A. Rabinowitz, musical I. Ruderman and maven P. Winters.
http://www.poetryjewels.bigstep.com/generic.html?pid=102
============================================
Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United
(1) Maniacal terrorists strike at the big apple of America?s eye.
Famed majestic landmarks, the Twin Towers crumble,
imploding into billions of bits of molten steel, jagged glass,
seared human flesh, and flailing broken bones. Escaping
spiked and surging fire balls, staff vaulted through windows.
A canine-toothed wing of the Pentagon is broken in the aftermath
of the devastation: a massive death toll of innocents remains
lodged, buried alive, fifty feet under, feeling the cold-bloodied
hard rubble, a steely glint of hope, five warm-blooded survivors
are unearthed. Every save a divine miracle. Subways evacuate.
First-aid crews take to the streets and man the flaming towers.
Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United.
(2) Flattened, the first company of New York City?s finest fire
fighters, police, and first-aid crews CRASH and BURN inside the
cascading avalanche of steel daggers. The 110-story Twin Towers
are brought to their saber knees and then to their foiled ankles.
Grieving, a 47-story sister building 7, collapses in distress into ragged
ruins. Billowing, nearby brother buildings in the zone remain ablaze.
WTC mass exodus: pyre and plumes of smoke hover, flying concrete
shards and soot, repugnant jet fuel, raining dust and debris, thousands
of frightful fleeing bystanders are entombed. Fatalities, makeshift morgues
ferry the sacrificial corpses to New Jersey. The Pile, 1.2 billion tons of
scorched scraps are hauled to The Hill of Fresh Kills Landfill. DNA matches:
a gruesome, grueling, and grisly task, steam still rising, pickaxes poke
for parts. Dogs sniff and succor. Ground Zero: dug-up remains are draped
with the U.S.A. flag, saluted, and reburied. Every find a divine miracle.
A carnivorous crater, vestiges of an office complex, in the dangerous
pit of dignified souls, hard hat archaeologists dig among the ruins:bodies
30 feet below ground: 10 fearless firemen, 3 fearful civilians. High-flying
stars and stripes fly low at half staff. Busy bees swarming, scalpeled
surgeons, bedpan nurses, and selfless volunteers man the hospitals.
Boiling, vigorous New Yorkers, from every mosaic melting hot pot
take to the streets and wait for hours to donate their warm vital blood.
Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United.
(3) Slamming, ramming into Grade A U.S. Steel,
four American jumbo jets are commandeered:
flight crews are maced; by razor blade box cutters,
pilots are knifed, passengers use their cell phones:
?I Love You? are their final words. Diabolical,
suicide bombers -- American men, women, and
children transfigured into four human missiles:
Flight 11, Boeing 767, Boston to L.A.,
81 Americans, eleven crew members, CRASH
and BURN, into the north tower, N.Y.C.
Flight 175, Boeing 767, Boston to L.A.,
56 Americans, nine crew members, CRASH
and BURN, into the south tower, N.Y.C.
Flight 77, Boeing 757, Washington to L.A.,
58 Americans, six crew members, CRASH
and BURN, into the Pentagon, in D.C.
Flight 93, Boeing 757, N.J. to San Francisco,
38 Americans, seven crew members, CRASH
and BURN, into an empty field, in PA., by unsung heroes:?Let?s Roll!?
Federal aviation officials ground flights: planes dip, drive, and nose-dive
at the nearest airport. Soaring sky high, safe and sound, squawking
seagulls with whimpering wings remain in flight and brave the fight.
Zippered up, bridges, tunnels, and highways lock gates. Fiercely,
five warships, frigate ships, and aiming bull's-eye, guided missile
destroyers man the N.Y. coast: Two aircraft carriers: USS George
Washington and USS John F. Kennedy man the N.Y. skies. Operation
Noble Eagle: combat air patrol to shoot-em-up and shoot-em-down.
In steely determination, it is business, but not business as usual.
Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United.
(4) It is more than a terrorist attack -
It is an act of war! It is a national tragedy!
The free and democratic world is attacked:
White House evacuates.
United Nations evacuates.
Treasury evacuates.
State Department evacuates.
Justice Department evacuates.
World Bank evacuates.
All Federal office buildings evacuate.
Israel evacuates all diplomatic missions - 12 months of merciless jihad:
soulless suicide bombers maim, mutilate, and murder Jews.
All N.Y. State government offices evacuate.
New York?s primary elections are postponed.
Trading is suspended: The American Stock Exchange,
Nasdaq, and New York Stock Exchange. 110 stories,
Chicago?s Sears Tower evacuates. Homeless, a
frozen zone, 20,000 N.Y.C. residents are displaced.
Chartering a Saudi jet, 11 Bostonian bin Ladens evacuate.
Slumbering, F.B.I., C.I.A., I.N.S., and N.S.A. agents rouse. It is
the first war of the 21st century! No-man's land, hermetically sealed,
the President of the U.S.A. is whisked away. Blinding black smoke and
clouds raining ash, heroic, Lady Liberty stands tall in the New York Harbor.
Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United.
(5) Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani addresses New York:
?Deaths are more than any of us can bear.?
Senator Hillary D. Rodham Clinton addresses New York:
?We will not be cowed by evil, despicable acts of terror.?
President George W. Bush addresses the nation:
?These acts shattered steel but they
cannot dent the steel of American resolve.?
?We will make no distinction between the terrorists
who committed these acts and those who harbored them.?
"Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring
justice to our enemies, justice will be done."
Nefarious doings, suspect numero uno is "The Evil One," cannibal Saudi militant
Osama bin Laden and his vile circus of vicious cavemen. Virulent videos, visible,
rallying all Muslims with venom and vitriol: "God Willing, America's end is near...?
Upward United We Stand: Operation Infinite Justice: seek and destroy Al Qaeda.
Operation Enduring Freedom: target cells, villainous metastasizing cancers.
Flight 93 terrorist manhunt: 20th hijacker(?) Ramzi Omar or Binalshibh(?)
Americans man their maps and ask: Where the Hell(?) is Afghanistan(?)
WW III: Worldwide Coalition Bombers vs. Terror-Bender Troglodytes.
Oct 7th: Billion dollar bombs drop. Tora Bora caves are wiped off the map.
Biological, nuclear, and radiological weapons. Inhalation. Evacuation. Annihilation.
"Our nation, in our fight against terrorism, will uphold the doctrine of either
you're with us or against us." "And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air"
"America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for
freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from
shining." "God Bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her..."
Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United.
(6) Heaven sent, where 70 virgins await each Islamic martyr
on a homicidal-suicidal mission, 19 corrosive terrorists pulverize
into an Arabian desert sand storm: desolate and deserted; no bad
guys; no car chase; no planes; no black boxes, no survivors, no
witnesses, no testimonies, no revenge to seek; no justice to exact;
no war to win; and no Hollywood movie. Arise. Awake. New world
order and Office of Homeland Security: cockpit dead bolts,
armed pilots and martial art stewardesses, no curb side
check-in and Arab profiling strip searches. An inferno, charred
bodies incinerate into ashes, few funerals, many memorial
tributes, urns of WTC dirt comfort. Cremated. Sobbing. Closure.
Weeping widows, wailing orphans, donations flood the Red Cross.
International terrorism: a worldwide menace. Terrorists: a worldwide
monstrosity. Arise. Reborn. One true empyrean: a phoenix, names of loved
ones are inscribed on the walls of the observation deck, sacred ground, a shrine,
the hatched angels hover, protecting the Twin Towers rebuilt. Lighting a blowtorch,
ironworkers, engineers, teamsters, laborers, and dock builders take turns...
Last steel column of 2WTC, 58 tons, no. 1,001B, is cut down at 8:17 p.m.
Heartbroken, resting in peace, archangel-chief architect Minoru Yamasaki said,
"A beautiful solution of form and silhouette." WorldWISE: democracy, liberty,
freedom, love, prosperity, goodness, security, and peace, ?We Shall Overcome.?
Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United.
(7) A cataclysmic collision course between good and evil; angels aflight and
devils afoot. "Thou Shalt Not Murder," the first set of twin tablets of the Ten
Commandments crumble into rubble, and are reengraved: Operation Infinite
Circle. Singed aftershocks: fear, disbelief, terror, rage, grief, depression, revenge,
numbness, and nightmares. Twin Tower totals: 90,000 tourists a day, 50,000
employed; 25,000 rescued; 35,000 in subway evacuated; and two-thirds empty
airplanes. 8,700 casualties, each story a miracle: a raging fire ball, 82% of her
body burned, Lauren Manning lives. Fatalities from 80 nations, 343 firefighters,
265 on airplanes, 125 at Pentagon, mournfully, 3,000 consumed. Outstretched,
GOD?s hand of mercy, love, compassion, and nerves of steel, vanquished the
evil incarnate, ?GOD WILLING.?
Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United.
"Allah Be Praised": Deliverance of Videotape of Guilty and Gloating Murderers. A Modern Day MIRACLE. Amen. "GOD is Great": Evil one, Osama bin Laden is Extinguished. America Gets the Last Laugh and the Final Burn. THE END. Operation Stars & Stripes Forever: U.S.A. Flame of Liberty and Justice Burns Eternal. Long Live the U.S.A.
Poetry note: each of the seven verses spirals downward and then spirals upward.
The Sole Intention of My Poetry is to Add LIGHT to Your Soul
Sharon Esther Lampert
Poet, Philosopher, Politician, Prophet and Princess
(Kadimah, The Tribal Princess of Israel)
BIO: "My Life is an OPENBook, to KNOWMe is to READMe"
http://www.poetryjewels.com
MOREThan You EVERWanted to KNOWAbout Me
E-mail: princesskadimah@hotmail.com
Special note of gratitude to my darling muse, A. Cohen,
and my dear proofreaders: mystical F. Fojas,
magical A. Rabinowitz, musical I. Ruderman and maven P. Winters.
http://www.poetryjewels.bigstep.com/generic.html?pid=102
============================================
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