ON Sept ll, 2001 A BEAUTIFUL DAY HAD JUST BEGUN
NEW YORK`S SKYLINE WAS BRIGHT AND CLEAR
WHEN SUDDENLY THE SIGHT OF A PLANE BEGAN TO APPEAR
IT FLEW DIRECTLY INTO NORTH TOWER ONE THIS HORRIBLE NIGHTMARE HAD JUST BEGUN
AND JUST WHEN WE GASPED IN COMPLETE SURPRISE ANOTHER APPEARED BEFORE OUR EYES
THIS ONE FLEW INTO SOUTH TOWER TWO
NO ONE KNEW JUST WHAT TO DO
BODIES WERE HURLED FROM THE BUILDINGS UP HIGH DEBRIS,DUST AND FIRE WERE SCATTERED LIKE FLIES
NO ONE COULD SEE ANYTHING THERE
BUT JUST AS THEY LOOKED UP INTO THE AIR
BUILDING TWO COLLAPSED AS THEY WATCHED IN DESPAIR
WHILE TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF IT ALL
BUILDING ONE BEGAN TO FALL
MANY PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES THIS DAY
WHILE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS BEGAN TO PRAY GROUND ZERO WAS GIVEN HER NAME
THIS LOSS TO OUR COUNTRY WAS A TERRIBLE SHAME WHILE ALL OF THIS WAS HAPPENING AND OUT OF SIGHT
A PLANE HIT THE PENTAGON WHILE STILL IN FLIGHT NOW AS THE WORLD BEGAN TO MOURN
TODAY AT THIS TIME MORE HEROES WERE BORN PENNSYLVANIA HAD SOME ALL ON A PLANE
THEY WERE NOT GOING TO LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN THEY OVERPOWERED THE TERRORISTS AND CRASHED
TO THE GROUND
THE PLANE EXPLODED WITH A HORRIBLE SOUND
THEY GAVE THEIR LIVES SO OTHERS MIGHT LIVE WE MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER WHAT THEY HAD TO GIVE
AMERICANS SHOULD BE PROUD OF A COUNTRY SO FAIR TO HAVE SO MANY HEROES ON THIS DAY OF DESPAIR
THEIR FAMILIES WILL ALWAYS CHERISH THEIR PRIDE FOR THEY LEFT THEM MEMORIES TOO PRECIOUS TO HIDE
THE WORLD WILL REMEMBER THIS TRAGIC DAY FOR IN ALL OF OUR HEARTS THE SADNESS WILL STAY

BY MARION L CASEY
SEPTEMBER 15,2001