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September
16, 2001
they must be never
forgotten
these men, these
women, these
heroes
who by their hundreds
died
that others by their
thousands live
inscribe their names
on every beating heart
in ceaseless honour
to a love too strong for even death to still
they must never be
forgotten
these who by their
thousands died
unknowing
not as warriors who
in battle
fought their foe on
equal terms
but victims of a
faceless evil in a battle with no rule
but bloodshed
senseless and brutal
they must never be
forgotten
the enemy who in the
darkness fights
bringing
terrors beyond imagination
to a people seeking
peace
may the God whom they
abhor have mercy on their souls
their now mortal foe
cannot