Five Days Before Hell

             
I remember what I was doing, exactly seventeen years ago today;
In Old Town, Alexandria Virginia, for some business and some play!
I was visiting my very close friends, Fiona and Gavin Korn;
She had an Antique Shop on Cameron Street, fine art the walls adorned!
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He was the head Attorney, for the F.B.I.’s DEA;
It turned out that that Thursday, was a very special day!
They had captured the number 2 drug lord, in all the whole wide World;
It had taken two years to nab him, the Agency’s elation swirled!
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So after Fiona and I did our business, we drove down to the F.B.I.;
We were going to a dinner celebration, at a nice restaurant nearby!
Over thirty of us sat outside, we drank and ate fine food;
Everyone with smiles and lots of laughter, all in a real great mood!
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But five days later, on that Tuesday, our lives forever changed;
The Twin Towers went down with thousands, victims of hijacked planes!
From happiness to horror, our Nation then shed its tears;
As we cried for fallen Americans, and loved ones very dear!
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                               A sunny Tuesday
                     Became the darkest of days
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