<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><p align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-center;"></p><div style="text-align: start;"><a name="Two Thousand One, Nine Eleven"><b><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Two Thousand One, Nine Eleven"</font></b></a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> by </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Paul Spreadbury</span></div><p></p><p align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-center;"></p><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Two thousand one, nine eleven</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Five thousand plus arrive in heaven</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As they pass through the gate,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thousands more appear in wait</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A tall bearded man,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">wearing a stovepipe hat</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">steps forward and greets them,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Then says, "Lets chat".</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They settle down in seats of clouds</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A man named Martin shouts out proud</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I have a dream!" and once he did</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Newcomer says, "Your dream still lives."</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Groups of soldiers in blue and gray</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Others in khaki, and green then say</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We're from Bull Run, Yorktown, the Maine"</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Newcomer says, "You died not in vain."</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">From a man on sticks one could hear</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The only thing we have to fear.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Newcomer says, "We know the rest,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">trust us sir, we've passed that test."</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A man with a twang from New England shores</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Then proclaimed in a voice they had all heard before</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Courage like yours does not hide in caves</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You can't bury freedom, in a grave,"</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A silence fell within the mist</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Somehow the Newcomer knew that this</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meant time had come for her to say</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What was in the hearts of the five thousand plus that day</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"In the land of the living, we wrote reports,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Watched our children play in sports</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Worked our gardens, sang our songs</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Went to church and clipped coupons</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We smiled, we laughed,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">we cried, we fought</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Unlike you, great we're not"</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The tall man in the stovepipe hat</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stood and said, "don't talk like that!</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Look at your country, look and see</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You died for freedom, just like me"</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Then, before them all appeared a scene</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Of ruined streets and twisted beams</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Death, destruction, rubble and dust</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And people working just 'cause they must</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hauling ash,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">lifting stones,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Knee deep in hell</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But not alone</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Look! Blackman, whiteman, brownman, and yellow</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Side by side helping their fellow!"</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So said Martin, as he watched the scene</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Even from nightmares, can be born a dream."</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Down below three firemen raised</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The colors high into ashen haze</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The soldiers above had seen it before</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Iwo Jima back in '44</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The man on sticks studied everything closely</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Then shared his perceptions on what he saw mostly</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I see pain, I see tears,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I see sorrow - but I don't see fear."</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"You left behind husbands and wives</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Daughters and sons and so many lives</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">are suffering now because of this wrong</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But look very closely. You're not really gone.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All of those people, even those you've never met</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All of their lives, they'll never forget</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Don't you see what has happened?</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Don't you see what you've done?</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You've brought them together, together as one.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The man named Abe stood and said</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Welcome my friends," and from there he led,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">five thousand Newcomers, all heroes to heaven</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On this day of our Lord, two thousand one nine eleven.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">---------------------------------------</span></div><p></p><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></body></html>