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A stroke of lightning Everything is on fire What could we have done? Bombs fall and friends die On this day, black as the smoke That now fills the air That smoke fills the air The only light we can see is from burning ships We will not back down As dark as the day now looks Brighter it will be
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Nov 11, 2019
Nov 11, 2019 at 9:18 PM UTC
December 7th
What I thought was blood on my mind Was the memory of hidden girl’s life Humanity burning inside distant diaries Until their horror became our strife What I thought was water to cleanse Was from a spear ****** into his side While he cried again for our peril From madness we could not hide What I thought was a horn blast of angels Was the sound of a thousand rising suns While the last witness was asked to forget The death of a thousand mother’s sons What I thought was a prayer for peace Was the sound of hell being born again And when the fire liberates itself from grace We are reminded that flesh is made from sin
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Dec 7, 2016
Dec 7, 2016 at 10:19 PM UTC
Infamy
Dawn of Valour Quiet harbour dawn— Pacific waters lie still beneath soft sunrise. Battleships rest in the calm unaware of coming storm. Engines pierce the sky— dark wings cross the morning light above Oahu. Sudden thunder splits the peace as fire falls upon the fleet. Arizona burns, smoke climbs through shattered blue air over silent decks. Men rush through flame and water amid chaos and courage. Across the waves spreads shock that circles the wide world like gathering tide. A sleeping giant wakes now to the call of bitter war. Yet from broken steel rises strength and unity for battles ahead. Memory keeps the harbour where sorrow meets resolve. Now calm waters rest— red poppies and white crosses face the quiet sea. Peace blooms where the guns once roared in remembrance of that dawn.
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Mar 17
Mar 17, 2026 at 4:25 AM UTC
Attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941