IceCat started a marvelous thread for everyone to post posters, poems, et cetera, re. the terrorist attacks on freedom on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. Unfortunately, for some of us that thread is now becoming cumbersome to upload, so (with apologies to IceCat) I am starting this new thread to continue that purpose.

I now, here, replay IceCat's inspiring opening visual in his original thread:

And here, to kick off this continuation, is the poem I wrote in inspiration to Dalton's "God Bless the U.S.A." thread, which I have now revised slightly with the addition of a title and some material at the end:

"Remember the World Trade Center"

I remember when President Kennedy was assassinated
America grieved and wondered
Why?
I remember struggles for equality and dignity
American fighting American
America grew and became better
I remember the fire that took Apollo 1
America mourned
America cherished its lost heroes
I remember a war that challenged America
Pitting our dedication to the Dream
Against the Ideals we all hold dear and true
And I remember how
America survived
I remember America, and the world as well,
Praying
As Apollo 13 struggled home to safety
I remember crises
A president forced to the wall
Over a decision needlessly made
A nation forced to the wall
How to rise from the ashes
And how America
Survived
I remember natural disasters
Storms and draughts
And how Americans threw together in such times
I remember the Challenger and the turmoil
Of her terrible demise
I remember wars and horrors and seemingly endless struggles
Just to make the world a better place
Somehow
And I remember that America never gives up
Not on America
And I remember how America comes together to face
Any common struggle it has been given
Any challenge to the true and just principles upon which
America was born
And I know that for America there is always a tomorrow
With another challenge to face
And America will rise to that challenge as always
For that is what we do
Because America never just gives up
Not on America
That's just the way we are
Tonight America grieves and wonders
Why?
And tomorrow America will still be America
Because that's just the way we are
America Will Survive
America Will Prevail!