Benghazi Memoriam

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Benghazi Memoriam

In the year of our Lord Twenty Hundred and Twelve,
 on the sacred day of September Eleven,
Little did the four of us think
 that on that night we could be in Heaven.
One would think that, on that special day,
 extra measures would be taken
In a Libyan city so far away
 from the shores of our great Nation.
One would think that, in Election Years
 (as that one was), aid would swiftly come.
Yet, all our pleas went on deaf ears
 and thus our days would soon be done.
Why were our electronic mails ignored?
 Does a U.S. Ambassador not merit attention?
They were somehow lost in the thousands more
 that someone felt were not worth retention.
How many public servants face
 the peril that we faced on that night?
Or even acknowledge the costs of freedom,
 the rule of law, and the worth of each life?
So, in this new Election Year,
 we humbly ask you (if you could)
To remember us and to say a prayer
 for Stevens, Smith, Doherty, and Woods.

      

[metmom]

I read about some of how Stevens was tortured.

It was horrific.

I’ll bet the others fared the same.

No way Clinton should be commander-in-chief.

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