** My Poet's Voice: These Are My Words! **: Behind "And the Banner Yet Waves"

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1.18.2007

Behind "And the Banner Yet Waves"

And the Banner Yet Waves" was written for a banking newsletter when I worked at a bank in the 1990s.

I wrote it, but the president of the bank asked me to change one word in the poem.

I had written:

"What a tragic, wasteful cost." (I meant that war is a tragic way to lose lives.) The president said that he understood what I meant, but some people might be offended by the phrasing of the words. He offered me some words that I could use, but I didn't use any of his suggestions. I changed it to, "What a tragic, tearful cost." He liked the change. I did, too.

I posted it here to pay tribute to September 11th.

The Banner Yet Waves...

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