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Subject: Re: Anxieties Beyond the Corn

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LM

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Date Posted: 13:15:07 09/13/01 Thu
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In reply to: Lori S. Maynard 's message, "Anxieties Beyond the Corn" on 11:49:17 09/13/01 Thu

Good read Lori, I imagine there will be a lot of fear gushing for a while to come. Thanks for sharing!! LM

We're living in the shadow created
>by the eclipse of our faith.
>We know that we will prevail,
>but it's killing us to wait.
>Anxieties and tensions
>are running at full tilt.
>Mourning and screaming
>for those so tragically killed.
>Something happened in my home state
>and it happened just last night.
>A man forgot his bag
>in a local resteraunt, that is right.
>Inside the bag, a British passport
>and detailed maps of, now, ground zero.
>Police combed the hotel rooms,
>I guess they never found this foreign "hero."
>Today, I saw a small Ryder truck pulled over
>five cops behind him, people rushing...
>What is going on here? We live among the cornfields.
>We're small America compared to New York.
>Even if irrational, my fear is gushing.
>Lord, we are lost and need guidance.
>Our flags and symbols of freedom still stand
>though eerilly sillouhetted
>by the tears and the destruction of our land.
>
>�September 13, 2001 Lori S. Maynard

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Re: Anxieties Beyond the Corn	Moonchild	14:25:05 09/13/01 Thu