Dear September: An Unread Letter

[ikissedtheskyonce]

Dear September,

Where is your pride?

Forget the anti Americans

Leave politics aside

Dear September,

Will they ever understand?

People lost their future

Will father time lend us a hand?

Dear September

I have been waiting

Will you ever write me back?

You lost my letter

Do you hate your month so bad?

Dear September

I do not think they understand

It's not just an American thing

It's about losing women, children, and men

Do they realize that foreigners died

September, have you received all their letters too

A land where our fathers died

Well this is my letter to you

#dearseptember

[renogaza]

that fountain.. is a massive waste of space.. just sayin..

i feel very disconnected from 9/11 because i was 10 when it happened, had no friends in the states apart from my aunt and uncle both of whom were at least 500 miles away from Manhattan, and i only found out about it in the news, that and the fact that i didn't buy it for a second helped, i did mourn for the dead because my parents told me to but i was very disassociated from it at the time, and because of that i feel very unattached from it now

i do feel sorry for all the death.. but that's only a fraction of the total number of deaths in 2001 alone, i'm not American or patriotic by any stretch of the imagination so my heart goes out to the whole world, not just America.

[renogaza]

also if that's the 9/11 national memorial museum on ground zero, then where is this badass of a building?

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[PT1911]

a couple of blocks over actually. I was just there

[FallOutBoy2001]

@PT1911 Beautiful building. I love how the sun glimmers on it. I think it's located right on the next block.

@OP The fountains aren't a waste of space. I know multiple people that lost family and friends, my mother lost one of her co-workers, and I have friends that grew up near Ground Zero and the surrounding area. It was no fault of anyone in that building that they died. They deserve the memorial, as that area is now their final resting place. Many of the bodies were never recovered.

[renogaza]

@FallOutBoy2001 true they do deserve a memorial, but not a massive fountain of death, you can't use it for anything and is a pretty good spot for people to commit suicide in (i don't support suicide)

it would have been a much better use of space if they at least made them into underground car-lots with a park on the surface and some green and life and maybe even a pond or playground and a large black granite monolith/obelisk in the center to commemorate the dead instead of a fountain of abyss, i think the dead would appreciate it much more if their afterlife was surrounded with life instead of a seemingly bottomless pit of despair.. or do American's find peace in keeping their dead restless?

[FallOutBoy2001]

Well I'd honestly be surprised if someone manages to die by jumping into the tower footprints. It's not really a secluded area as well, so I'd assume there are people there at all hours.

I like your idea of the park and the monolith, not so much the car park. New York does not more green spaces

[FallOutBoy2001]

*need

[renogaza]

@FallOutBoy2001 if a person just jumps instead of waiting for someone to notice like most suicidal people tend to do (because they don't want to be the guy who just dies and everyone doesn't notice until someone trips on his corpse), if they just jumped without creating a commotion then they will definitely succeed, even if there are security in the area they won't be able to reach him/her in time.

new york may not need more parks but its always better than a bottomless pit of despair, and its good for the ecosystem so why not, carparks are always needed in cities because there is never enough space to park your car in there

[FallOutBoy2001]

I still don't think you would die if you jumped into the fountains. They aren't that deep and while you may break bones, not enough to cause death.

I still think a car park might be disrespectful, but I totally agree with the park idea.

[renogaza]

@FallOutBoy2001 an underground carpark may be disrespectful but it is a very efficient use of space, sewage lines and subways don't go under parks and building a carpark in a massive hole like that is a hell of a lot cheaper than opting for landfill, engineering and architecture nowadays is becoming less and less practical so this is why thought of this logic.

if you land head first on the fountain you could die of severe brain hemorrhage or massive internal bleeding or a fractured neck/permanently damaged spine, so it is still quite possible

[renogaza]

another way is to build a below ground open-air train station hub that is a lot more hightech than the grand central station, that would make a perfect pair with the new WTC right next door, but again it would probably be disrespectful, either because of noise or because of air pollution, but if thats the case it could be made so that the station only supports intercontinental routes only and only use bullet trains, since these trains are entirely electric powered they produce very minimal background noise and have no pollution whatsoever, on top of which it would make traveling from the west coast to the east coast much more convenient and decrease the number of flights between the corners of America ten fold thereby decreasing air pollution and massive expenses on jet fuel and airline maintenance.

i'm pretty sure Manhattan doesn't have a bullet train station, i don't think even the whole of America has one yet, but i could be mistaken.

[renogaza]

in japan a train station called shibuya station in tokyo has commemorated a famous dog who died waiting for his long dead master for over 30 years, so its not uncommon to have a memorial in a train station

[Saoirse_Nua]

Nice poem

[jameson187]

I remember people getting off the train in my town covered in the dust from the debris. They had to be hosed off and check out for what they thought was an anthrax attack as well.

[FakeName123]

Roses are red
Violets are blue
You twin towers are gone
World goes on without you

Can I become a poet now?

[ikissedtheskyonce]

No but you can become a troll :)

[sdistotallyme]

i was sitting in a college lecture hall and they put this on the big screen. The psychology professor said out loud "this will stay in your long term memory".

[jman46241]

A beautiful and well constructed poem. I don't quite understand the title, it seems to be misdirected..

[PT1911]

Makin me feel fam... had a flashback back to 4th grade...

[colourz]

Jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams or cause a building to collapse like that, only a controlled demolition does

[helloitsmethere]

Extreme heat weakens steel beams.

[colourz]

@helloitsmethere sorry, you're 16, i can't take you seriously.

[helloitsmethere]

You're a dumbass if you judge people by their age.

[colourz]

@helloitsmethere the correct term would be ignorant*.
if you think building collapse from an impact like that or from high temperatures, your the idiot.

you have no knowledge on infrastructure or the material that building was made of. If you do please enlighten me since you're so damn smart. (which i highly doubt you are)

[helloitsmethere]

If a controlled demolition was to bring down two buildings like that, the materials would have been pouring from the bottom, not where the planes crashed.
You are the real dumbass.

[colourz]

@helloitsmethere so you're a demolition expert now, you're so accomplished for a 16 year old (sarcasm)

run along and do your homework lol

[PT1911]

oh wow, you're so enlightened.

Go do you're own homework

What if I told you jetfuel burns at a temperature (around 1500 F) that makes steel beams reach less than 10% of their structural integrity? What if I told you that skyscrapers are designed to crumble like that as to not hit other buildings that are falling?

There's more, but I really shouldn't bother because you have your tin foil hat on and think you're en-lighted by spreading conspiracy theories on the internet.

[colourz]

@PT1911 oh look, the crybaby from my mattress commercial question

[PT1911]

Guess you were conceived the one time your parents didn't use a condom

Bad luck for them I guess.

You know, if we are going to be low and insulting on the internet.

[colourz]

@PT1911 TRIGGERED! take cover in your safe space before your SJW takes over

[PT1911]

Oh dude.

If anything, i'm exactly the thing an SJW hates: a white, heterosexual, catholic, straight male.

Besides, I support the God emperor

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[colourz]

@PT1911 UH OH! HE can't CONTROL IT!

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[PT1911]

What?

[helloitsmethere]

@PT1911 THANK YOU!!!
@colourz FYI my father works in construction and he told me that skyscrapers can collapse like that due to the infrastructure and they are MADE THAT WAY so don't act all smart, bitch.

[colourz]

@helloitsmethere Ted Mosby is your dad? No way 😯