Note: Not strictly on the 'scraper topic, but I'll let this go through this time. ED
September 11, 2001: Twin Towers Tragedy- WTC Catastrophe Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United (1) Maniacal terrorists strike at the big apple of America’s eye. Famed majestic landmarks, the Twin Towers crumble, imploding into billions of bits of molten steel, jagged glass, seared human flesh, and flailing broken bones. Escaping spiked and surging fire balls, staff vaulted through windows. A canine-toothed wing of the Pentagon is broken in the aftermath of the devastation: a massive death toll of innocents remains lodged, buried alive, fifty feet under, feeling the cold-bloodied hard rubble, a steely glint of hope, five warm-blooded survivors are unearthed. Every save a divine miracle. Subways evacuate. First-aid crews take to the streets and man the flaming towers. Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United. (2) Flattened, the first company of New York City’s finest fire fighters, police, and first-aid crews CRASH and BURN inside the cascading avalanche of steel daggers. The 110-story Twin Towers are brought to their saber knees and then to their foiled ankles. Grieving, a 47-story sister building 7, collapses in distress into ragged ruins. Billowing, nearby brother buildings in the zone remain ablaze. WTC mass exodus: pyre and plumes of smoke hover, flying concrete shards and soot, repugnant jet fuel, raining dust and debris, thousands of frightful fleeing bystanders are entombed. Fatalities, makeshift morgues ferry the sacrificial corpses to New Jersey. Tons, 1.2 billion scorched scraps are hauled to S.I. Fresh Kills Landfill. Dogs sniff and succor. DNA matches: a gruesome, grueling, and grisly task, steam still rising, pickaxes poke for parts. Ground Zero: dug-up remains are draped with the U.S.A. flag, saluted, re-buried. Every find a divine miracle. Bodies 30 feet below ground: 10 fearless firemen, 3 fearful civilians. High-flying stars and stripes fly low at half staff. Scalpeled surgeons, bedpan nurses, and swarming, selfless volunteers man the hospitals. Boiling, vigorous New Yorkers, from every mosaic melting hot pot take to the streets and wait for hours to donate their warm vital blood. Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United. (3) Slamming, ramming into Grade A U.S. Steel, four American jumbo jets are commandeered: flight crews are maced; by razor blade box cutters, pilots are knifed, passengers use their cell phones: “I Love You” are their final words. Diabolical, suicide bombers -- American men, women, and children transfigured into four human missiles: Flight 11, Boeing 767, Boston to L.A., 81 Americans, eleven crew members, CRASH and BURN, into the north tower, N.Y.C. Flight 175, United 767, Boston to L.A., 56 Americans, nine crew members, CRASH and BURN, into the south tower, N.Y.C. Flight 77, Boeing 757, Washington to L.A., 58 Americans, six crew members, CRASH and BURN, into the Pentagon, in D.C. Flight 93, Boeing 757, N.J. to San Francisco, 38 Americans, seven crew members, CRASH and BURN, into an empty field, in PA., by unsung heroes:“Let’s Roll!” Federal aviation officials ground flights: planes dip, drive, and nose-dive at the nearest airport. Soaring sky high, safe and sound, squawking seagulls with whimpering wings remain in flight and brave the fight. Zippered up, bridges, tunnels, and highways lock gates. Fiercely, five warships, frigate ships, and aiming bull's-eye, guided missile destroyers man the N.Y. coast: Two aircraft carriers: USS George Washington and USS John F. Kennedy man the N.Y. skies. Operation Noble Eagle: combat air patrol to shoot-em-up and shoot-em-down. In steely determination, it is business, but not business as usual. Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United. (4) It is more than a terrorist attack - It is an act of war! It is a national tragedy! The free and democratic world is attacked: White House evacuates. United Nations evacuates. Treasury evacuates. State Department evacuates. Justice Department evacuates. World Bank evacuates. All Federal office buildings evacuate. Israel evacuates all diplomatic missions - 12 months of merciless jihad: soulless suicide bombers maim, mutilate, and murder Jews. All N.Y. State government offices evacuate. New York’s primary elections are postponed. Trading is suspended: The American Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, and New York Stock Exchange. 110 stories, Chicago’s Sears Tower evacuates. Homeless, a frozen zone, 20,000 N.Y.C. residents are displaced. Chartering a Saudi jet, 11 Bostonian bin Ladens evacuate. Slumbering, F.B.I., C.I.A., I.N.S., and N.S.A. agents rouse. It is the first war of the 21st century! No-man's land, hermetically sealed, the President of the U.S.A. is whisked away. Blinding black smoke and clouds raining ash, heroic, Lady Liberty stands tall in the New York Harbor. Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United. (5) Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani addresses New York: “Deaths are more than any of us can bear.” Senator Hillary D. Rodham Clinton addresses New York: “We will not be cowed by evil, despicable acts of terror.” President George W. Bush addresses the nation: “These acts shattered steel but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.” “We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbored them.” "Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done." Nefarious doings, suspect numero uno is "The Evil One," the cannibal Saudi militant Osama bin Laden and his vile circus of vicious cavemen. Virulent videos, visible, rallying all Muslims: "God Willing, America's end is near...” Operation Infinite Justice: seek and destroy Al Qaeda. Operation Enduring Freedom: target cells, villainous metastasizing cancers. FL 93 terrorist manhunt: 20th hijacker (?) Ramzi Omar or Binalshibh (?) Americans man their maps and ask: Where the Hell(?) is Afghanistan(?) WW III: Worldwide Coalition Bombers vs. Terror-Bender Troglodytes. "America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining." Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United. (6) Heaven sent, where 70 virgins await each Islamic martyr on a homicidal-suicidal mission, 19 corrosive terrorists pulverize into an Arabian desert sand storm: desolate and deserted; no bad guys; no car chase; no planes; no black boxes, no survivors, no witnesses, no testimonies, no revenge to seek; no justice to exact; no war to win; and no Hollywood movie. Arise. Awake. New world order and Office of Homeland Security: cockpit dead bolts, armed pilots and martial art stewardesses, no curb side check-in and Arab profiling strip searches. An inferno, charred bodies incinerate into ashes, few funerals, many memorial tributes, urns of WTC dirt comfort. Cremated. Sobbing. Closure. Weeping widows, wailing orphans, donations flood the Red Cross. International terrorism: a worldwide menace. Terrorists: a worldwide monstrosity. One true empyrean: arise, reborn, a phoenix, names of loved ones are inscribed on walls of the observation deck, sacred ground, a shrine, the hatched angels hover, protecting Twin Towers rebuilt. WorldWISE: democracy, liberty, freedom, love, prosperity, goodness, security, and peace, “We Shall Overcome.” Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United. (7) A cataclysmic collision course between good and evil; angels aflight and devils afoot. "Thou Shalt Not Murder," the first set of twin tablets of the Ten Commandments crumble and are reengraved: Operation Infinite Circle. Singed aftershocks: fear, disbelief, terror, rage, grief, depression, revenge, numbness, and nightmares. Twin Tower totals: 90,000 tourists a day, a person from every bend and curve of the globe may have perished; 50,000 employed; 25,000 rescued; 35,000 in subway evacuated; and two-thirds empty airplanes. Each story a miracle, 8,700 casualties. Fatalities from 80 nations, mournfully, 3,000 consumed. Outstretched, GOD’s hand of mercy, love, compassion, and nerves of steel, vanquished the evil incarnate, “GOD WILLING.” Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United. "Allah Be Praised": Deliverance of Videotape of Guilty and Gloating Murderers. A Modern Day MIRACLE. Amen. "GOD is Great": Evil one, Osama bin Laden is Extinguished. America Gets the Last Laugh and the Final Burn. THE END. Operation Stars & Stripes Forever: U.S.A. Flame of Liberty and Justice Burns Eternal. Long Live the U.S.A. Poetry note: each of the seven verses spirals downward and then spirals upward. The Sole Intention of My Poetry is to Add LIGHT to Your Soul Sharon Esther Lampert Poet, Philosopher, Politician, Prophet and Princess (Kadimah, The Tribal Princess of Israel) BIO: "My Life is an OPENBook, to KNOWMe is to READMe" http://www.poetryjewels.com E-mail: [email protected] Special note of gratitude to my darling muse, A. Cohen, and my dear proofreaders: mystical F. Fojas, magical A. Rabinowitz, musical I. Ruderman and maven P. Winters. http://www.poetryjewels.bigstep.com/generic.html?pid=102