Beautifully written both with clarity and feeling. Thank you for your eloquence with regard to this tragedy committed upon our nation. May we always remember and be mindful of what we have…and what we can lose.

How was that trivial?

from Time's James Poniewozik, on Glenn Beck:
"What he purportedly wants is to bring back our feeling of "unity." I remember that feeling. After 9/11, I remember hardcore liberal New Yorkers rallying behind Rudy Giuliani, saying nice things about President Bush when he spoke at the WTC ruins. I remember thousands of American flags being flown out of apartment and brownstone windows, not as political statements or in the you-better-prove-your-patriotism spirit of flag pins and Freedom Fries, but simply because we felt we Americans were all in this together.

So since March, what has Glenn Beck been doing to re-establish that sense of nonpartisan national brotherhood? Calling President Obama a racist, declaring that the government was bringing fascism upon us, asking his fans to dig up dirt on political figures he doesn't like, and predicting civil-war-like uprisings. Because that's how you bring people together ….

You want to bring back the feeling of national unity and civility, Glenn Beck? You could start by not using this tragedy as your personal political platform."

Trivializing 9/11? You've got to be kidding. How can remembering the innocent lives that were lost, the heroes that died and the warriors that were born out of adversity be trivial? How can recognizing that it was evil that attacked our land, using planes as weapons, in the quest to destroy our way of life, our freedom, and our democracy. How can pointing out that those lives will not have died in vain for though evil's prize was the death of freedom – they did not attain it – and Freedom will survive…. American's will not bow to terrorists and thank God for the men and women who continue to keep us free.

We Remember 9/11 – We Will NEVER Forget – the Atrocity, the Horror, the Abomination, the Raging Fear, the Anger, the Heartache, the Shock and Uncertainty, the Excruciating Pain, the Attack of EVIL – PURE EVIL on our Land – - – Neither will we forget the lives lost, the heroes that gave their lives to thwart even more attacks, the Warriors who vow to serve and protect our beautiful nation, and the Americans who joined together to get us through this HELL ON EARTH that was thrust upon us that day.

No, trivializing 9/11 would be making it into a day of service instead of a day of remembrance. Trivializing 9/11 would be calling the act of terrorism a "man-made disaster."

No there is NO trivializing 9-11 – WE WILL NEVER – NOT EVER – FORGET THAT DAY…

Dear CGNTVDssdnt, I saw nothing political in Chele's beautiful poem and sentiments. As an American, you have your right to admire President Obama just as others have their right to disagree with some of his policies but please, do not seek to denigrate one's personal feelings and tribute toward a special day in our history and both those that were lost and those heros that were lost or injured in trying to save others. That day, probably the worse day in our country, was also the finest day in bringing American's together. If you want to disagree with a political issue, do so, but this was a tribute, not political.

Beautiful. Thank you.

so bad. funny bad.

No, liberals might have a "cognitive" answer instead.

I'm waiting for your poems about Pearl Harbor and D-Day. OR HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN?

We will never forget the atrocity, the horror, the devastation.

It is precisely what this nation has visited upon others around the globe.

America's chickens have come to roost and we shall not forget.

Let us fight the true enemy: Our Imperialist government and our militaristic view of the world, coupled with our view of ourselves as exceptional and entitled.

We caused this. Only we can stop it.

One thing that some poems have is a regular meter. Not this one, though.

This was one of the worst poems my second graders turned in to commemorate 9-11. I will never forget.

Again, and this time, with feeling! More FREEDOM please, also more TRUCKNUTZ. That's a dealbreaker for me.

Just a few questions for the author. Why did you give up on rhyming after two stanzas? Why did you give up on any attempt at meter at all after four? Why did you do this in this fashion? I suspect you knew what you were doing, so why didn't you take the time to fix it? Does 9-11 not mean enough to you that you would go to the trouble of creating something of coherence or beauty? Did the tragedy seem so trivial to you that you thought it fit to memorialize in this slapdash, careless style? This is ugly, and it makes the events of that day seem petty and maudlin, and is that really what you intended?

I was very glad Chele wrote this. Until I followed the link to this poem from my church website, I had completely forgotten about this whole thing. Thank you, Chele, for insisting that I NEVER FORGET. They should investigate this tragedy and prosecute the offenders, and anyone who looks like the offenders.

Something to think about:

1) None of the hi-jackers were from Iraq, but 14 of the 19 were from SAUDIA ARABIA (Which American political family is it again that has such a close relationship w/the Saudi Royal Family, oh yeah, the BUSH FAMILY. Remember W holding hands w/their leader? Strolling through the Rose Garden?

2) Ever see the 8/6/01 memo that was handed to Bush while he was on vacation? The one titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike inside US"?! It mentions an imminent threat, hi-jackings, etc. Bush apparently had another sip of sweet tea and jumped back on his mountain bike.

IF President Clinton or President Obama had received that memo and DONE NOTHING. The GOP & the "Talking Heads" at FOX would be screaming from the top of their lungs.

I could go on about this, but I think you get the point…..

Wow, subject matter aside, one of the worst poems I have ever read. Subject matter included, one of the vilest attempts to legitimize one of the worst poems I have ever read by prostituting sacred emotions from the nation's collective consciousness.

Please go back to singing and writing cheap pop music about Jesus. At least then there's no chance someone will accidentally mistake it for art.

Does the Government & Propaganda Media lie to you?
Future of a Nation that can not trust the Government & Propaganda Media?

Ventura Sheehan Perot Paul Nader McKinney Kucinich Kaptur Gravel Gonzalez Clemente Choate Carter Baldwin Anderson

Roses are red violets are blue, this is where my poem stops rhyming.

Jebus on a cracker that verbal splat sounds like the Night Before Christmas being hit with a jetliner

Let’s see if I can do worse:

And me in my kerchief
my wife in her boots
The one’s with the spike heels
Her muff in my snoot

Arose with a start
my hard on still standing
rolled out of the mattress
on floor we did landing

When out of the clouds
came silver jet-planing
Osama bin Laden
and Abdul Insaning

Come Infidel,Jihad,
come towers a-crash
I dove for my whiskey
got totally smashed

The Teevee shrieked babbling
panic and fright
Only Bush to protect me
and to all, "We are soooooo fucked"

I just don't understand why there wasn't a poem on February 8 commemorating the loss of beloved American freedom icon Anna Nicole Smith. These guys must be racist or something.

This "poem" is offensive to anybody w/2 brain cells to rub together. Jesus Harry Christ, can't you just leave it alone?

NEVER- NOT EVER! # I've, Haaad, the time of my liiiife #

What about Disco? I loved Disco music but it died and now I have a sad. I will ALWAYS REMEMBER Disco.

It is quite obvious that many of the comments on Chele's poem and comments were made by the same individual. She wrote from the heart. Obviously others liked it is it was linked to other sites and to various church sites. Of course I guess the purpose of the vitriolic attacks is an attempt to silence her from saying what is on her mind. Keep it up Chele. There are those of us who appreciate your sentiments.

There is no discernible attempt at rhythm. The rhyme scheme is clumsy and forced, and is seemingly abandoned midway. It's very "telly" and lacking in imagery. It's extraordinarily cliched and not very evocative – it might as well just say,

"Look, yet another
patriotic poem about
the Twin Towers attack."

When handling a heavily emotional and overused subject matter such as love, war, patriotism or death, it will almost invariably fall flat unless handled with extreme finesse and highly skilled craftsmanship. This poem has neither of those. It is, I think, a little offensive to wordsmiths, to patriots, and to those who lost loved ones in the attack, to publicly post a "tribute" so poorly written as to be insulting and trivializing of a monumental tragedy that had such a profound effect on our country and our people. For shame.

What a sack of amateurish shit.

To publish this artless and inept rubbish as a "memorial" to the dead is an insult to their memory and to the people who have suffered loss and bereavement.