Thursday, September 13, 2012

Safer - ?


What we have lost
in the decade that followed
are we truly safer
in the blood that was shed
our wounded, our dead
our nation a fortress
more security, but are we safer
the price we paid in response
giving up our freedom



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Edited September 13, 2012
new poem –
& rampage in Benghazi, September 11, 2011
which led to death of US Ambassador and others
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/13/libya-us-consulate-benghazi-damage
&
Edited September 13, 2012
new poem – “The Memories Flooding Back”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-memories-flooding-back.html
after starting to read poem, “MUCH LIKE TODAY”,
by Chip Bergeron
written September 11, 2012
&
September 11, 2012
new poem – “A Moment Crystallized”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-moment-crystallized.html
&
post by the Reverend Doctor Amy Butler,
@PastorAmyDC
http://www.calvarydc.org/contact-us/our-staff/
Senior Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church,
Washington, DC
http://www.calvarydc.org/
“A Prayer for Today”
https://twitter.com/PastorAmyDC/status/245536689781604352
http://talkwiththepreacher.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/a-prayer-for-today/
&
Edited September 11, 2012
new poem – “An Audible Gasp”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/an-audible-gasp-2.html
September 11, 2012
“A Gasp”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-gasp.html
written about my experience at
Franklin Pierce Law Center
Concord, NH
on September 11, 2001
in the TV lounge
where we all stayed, transfixed by the images
&
latest 20 poems about
September 11, 2001
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/search/label/September%2011


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