[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3811]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        A POEM BY DEBBIE ROGERS

 Mr. HUTCHINSON. Mr. President, I ask to have printed in the 
Record, a poem by a constituent of mine, Debbie Rogers, on behalf of 
the victims of September 11, 2001.
  The poem follows.

                           God Bless the USA

     Twin Towers once stood regally, but majestic in the sky,
     Pure evil took them down today, Americans stand and cry.
     Two planes marked for death, as the world observes them 
           crash,
     Once titanic against the skyline, now scattered in debris and 
           ash.

     Four planes all together, carrying innocent lives on each 
           one,
     Leaving disbelief and carnage, when the hellish butchers were 
           done.
     There was no kind of warning, no message did they send,
     And the total devastation, is so hard to comprehend.

     Emergency Crews work frantically, keeping hope always alive,
     They dig with bleeding hands, praying someone does survive.
     Thousands hurt and missing, death lingers in the air,
     Families in such torment, the world mourns in deep despair.

     Our whole world has been disrupted, as we watch the breaking 
           news,
     Praying they find survivors, and all the missing clues.
     We need closure for the families, and justice for us all,
     We'll deal with this catastrophie, as Americans we stand 
           tall.

     Were proud to be Americans, we won't take this without a 
           fight,
     We won't cease in determination, till this wrong is made a 
           right.
     We'll rise above the smoke and ash, remembrance in our heart,
     Of all the innocent families, these monsters tore apart.

     Now vengeance seems to call, like a beacon in the night,
     God forgive our thoughts two wrongs don't make a right.
     But we'll stand on honor and justice, there'll be a reckoning 
           day,
     This deed won't go unpunished, God Bless the U.S.A.

       In Honor and in Memory, September 11, 2001, by Debbie 
     Rogers.

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