# My proud piece of semi-patriotic art **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 18, 2001, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-proud-piece-of-semi-patriotic-art/82323 "2001-09-18T03:01:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-proud-piece-of-semi-patriotic-art/82323/1 "2001-09-18T03:01:40Z")
As an attempt to express some of my feelings about the events of late I made what I think is a cool piece of art. It moved me to make it. I got out my American/Peace flag (american flag with peace sign instead of stars) and a black permanent marker. I used the marker to scrawl lines from the song “American Tune” across the lines of the flag, coming up with something pretty moving. Try and picture that flag, with the following on it > [@](#): > > I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered > I don’t have a friend who feels at ease > I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered > Or driven to its knees > But it’s alright. It’s alright. > For we lived so well so long > Still, when I think of the road we’re travelin’ on > I wonder what’s gone wrong > I can’t help but wonder what’s gone wrong > > In memory of the events of 9/11/01 I’m going to anonymously post it in a public place somewhere, maybe even at the capital, I’m not sure. Any thoughts on this? Anyone else done something similar? LC ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-proud-piece-of-semi-patriotic-art/82323/2 "2001-09-18T03:07:44Z")
[hijack]Uh, Lucki? May I ask why you have changed the spelling of your name?[/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-proud-piece-of-semi-patriotic-art/82323/3 "2001-09-18T03:20:42Z")
I changed the spelling of my name because it just plain looks cooler. And less like an ad for cereal. And it comes up with way cooler anagrams. Back to your regularly scheduled thread. LC ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-proud-piece-of-semi-patriotic-art/82323/4 "2001-09-18T05:01:51Z")
On the night of the attack I had to do some volunteer work. This keeps me in an office for quite some time with nothing to do, so I did a sketch. It was two women whose photographs I’d seen in La Presse. Perhaps you’ve seen this one… one Asian-looking woman in a sleeveless sweater is reaching out her hand in horror, while below and to her left an older white woman with short red hair clasps her hand to her mouth. Anyway, I sketched that photograph, and included a protective verse: In this fateful hour I call on all heaven with its power And the sea with its deepness And the rocks with their steepness And the snow with its whiteness And the sky with its brightness And the lightning with its rapid wrath And the fire with all the strength it hath And the winds with their swiftness along their path And the earth with its starkness And the night with its darkness All these I place As a shield in time and space Between us and those who would harm us. ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-proud-piece-of-semi-patriotic-art/82323/5 "2001-09-18T05:31:51Z")
**Lucki** , I appreciate the sentiment you’re attempting to express with that. I like you, and am assuming innocence, so I won’t comment further. **Matt** , I like that poem, very nice. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-proud-piece-of-semi-patriotic-art/82323/6 "2001-09-18T05:34:48Z")
My cousin-in-law wrote this: Like the sun they rose in the east United and American But time doesn’t work quite right today Because in the east they set We watched in horror on TV We listened on the radio As they hijacked our security In the heart of New York City But we will mend our shattered hearts We’ll remake our broken cities The terror will not win today Because we are United and American AB 9/11/2001 [sub]matt - L’Engle? Isn’t that where I’ve read that?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-proud-piece-of-semi-patriotic-art/82323/7 "2001-09-18T06:13:14Z")
While we’re on the subject of poetry inspired by Tuesday, I wrote this in my Augustan Age class today. When the words come I can’t block them. 9/11 Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Here the wound, but where the stained mark from the blood of hate and rage? Here we are now; here we stand, heads held high to face the coward, in our minds memorial flowered. Six thousand bags are coming here- death surrounds us, front and rear. Yet in the midst of grief and pain let us not from joy abstain. Celebrate the lives we shared. Papers show our tempers flared; people beaten, killed for how they look or dress. Do not allow all this to multiply in hate; we all must heal. It’s not too late. We will rebuild, but first to find all who are trapped, dead or alive. For them we must, with them we will for all eternity survive. I’m still waiting for a picture that matches this poem. I’ll put it on my webpage if I can, and if not I’ll link to it. ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-proud-piece-of-semi-patriotic-art/82323/8 "2001-09-18T08:09:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by chique \* > \*\*[sub]matt - L’Engle? Isn’t that where I’ve read that?[/sub] \*\* yup ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-proud-piece-of-semi-patriotic-art/82323/9 "2001-09-18T11:40:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by purplebear \* > **Lucki, I appreciate the sentiment you’re attempting to express with that. I like you, and am assuming innocence, so I won’t comment further.** Awww, come on Bear! It’s not gonna kill me, what is your actual reaction to this? I think that making the comment you did is actually more vexing than actually posting your negative reaction. “Assuming innocence”, huh? Well, gosh, was it criminal, or what? LC