| | A Year Has Passed |  |  |  Way too fast the year has passed.
 Yet we'll always remember
 that day in September.
 
 The loss of lives
 of husbands and wives
 Fathers and mothers
 sisters and brothers.
 
 Thousands went
 to help and search.
 What sites they saw
 made stomachs lurch.
 
 Though physically
 we were not there,
 In hearts and minds
 we all despaired.
 
 We did not think
 it could happen to us,
 But now that it has
 we have to show our stuff.
 
 Those people can run,
 but not hide forever.
 They better believe
 America's more clever.
 |  | By Debra Oliver Copyright 2002
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