Grandmother, tell me how much you remember
What happened on that fateful day in September
We had tragedy preceding and fought many wars
What made this one-day so contrary and more
Dear child, you’re right, we’d fought in the past
We’d defended the weaker against many a-wrath
We’d offered our hand whenever in need
And lifted up others, that they might succeed
But on the eleventh, so early that fall
A strike fell upon us and changed one and all
Though many we’d helped forever in past
Now we were the ones who were under attack
But Grandmother why? Why did they come?
Because, dearest child, they sought your freedom
In great jets they roared through, they demolished the towers
Mistakenly deeming that they owned our power
Two more strikes hit us then, in P-A and DC
Thousands were murdered and billions still grieve
We watched in deep horror…with anger and hate
Until grief overcame us, nearly sealing our fate
Yet, somehow, and really I’m not quite sure how
Peace settled the country. We heard not a sound
And voices rose then, so loud and so strong
We stood shoulder to shoulder and challenged the wrong
As warriors, our spirits we held up on high
Like the red, white, and blue, you see up in the sky
But the evil had vanished, They’d managed to hide
They’d dared scoff a country with God on its side
And, oh, what a shame, for He had a plan
And delivered the cowards right into our hands
We remember for families who needed us most
We remember a unity joined coast to coast
We remember for all that we could have been
For what once stood for and stand for again
We remember for mothers were taken from daughters
Our sisters and friends, our uncles and fathers
The day we as a people were brutally wronged
Yet as a strong nation continued on strong
Remember September, for we did not fall
Indivisible with liberty and justice for all
We remember all this. And, child, you should too
For this country of freedom it stood strong for you