Twenty-two years
15 years posting here
and I am having trouble with the words
Never Forget
the now hackneyed phrase
(to be sure, when you see it on sign or commercial or billboard the company that paid for it is sure to put their name with hit hoping to drive in business out of patriotic empathy)
So many can't even remember
because they hadn't been born yet
people you and I work with now
Never Forget
I never have
not for one day in the last 22 years
(while waiting for the penny to drop)
(for the game is afoot here and I don't believe we yet know the truth)
Have you?
2 comments:
Never Forget
I never have
not for one day in the last 22 years
So, "Never forget!" works for me. I am both sad and angry today.
But I do understand that the phrase doesn't work for many -- including the students I teach.
Swofford never forgets. And while the image of the one is iconic, approximately 200 people leapt from the buildings on that day. One individual leaving the building before it imploded remembers seeing a baby with the umbilical cord still attached. It is an image they wish to forget.
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