9/11, of Symbols and Lives

On this day of remembrance, we recall the graceful

towers that reached toward the sky.

We praise and extol the virtues of those martyred souls

who perished in their flames;

I think of the Pentagon, which suffered the same fate,

and begin to wonder why

The souls lost there go largely unmentioned; surely their

loss is valued the same…

© 9/11/2003 Thurman P. Woodfork