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For so long, in my life,
unable to discern, to appreciate
the moment of shock, or anger,
of desire for revenge, for a call to duty
to vigilance, to service
not like anything in my experience,
the attack on Pearl, the Day of Infamy,
December 7, 1941 (can you hear his voice too?)

But our lives changed, and we know their pain
the anger they felt, sixty five years gone by
because we were visited by cowards in the skies
Kamikazes of another zealot, another madman
bent on surprise and attack
when the towers fell, we were pulled back
to the crackling radio and
FDR’s righteous indignation
We too knew what it felt like
and we will never forget

Too bad the enemy is no longer
a nation-state

December 8, 2006 19:40

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