Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ A Day to Remember ❯ A Day to Remember ( Chapter 1 )

A Day to Remember

 

Me: This is just a short one-shot to remember the heroes that died on 9/11 and those that died in the airplane crashes and in the Twin Towers.

 

Disclaimer: *sniff* She doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh. On with the fic.

 

 

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At dawn, the scene shows Joey standing at Ground Zero.

 

Joey: Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light…

 

Mai: *walks in behind Joey* what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?

 

The sun slowly rises, shining onto Ground Zero, where flags are waving.

 

Yugi: *walks in* Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight…

 

Duke: *comes in as well* O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?

 

Dartz, Valon, Kaiba, Raphael, Allister, Yami, Malik, Marik, Bakura, Ryou, Tea, Tristan, Rebecca, Vivian, Grandpa, Ishizu, Odion, Shadi, Professor Hawkins, Weevil, Rex, and Mokuba walk in.

 

Everyone: *joins in* And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

 

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

 

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh! Thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Me: *walks in with a huge American flag and waves it slowly back and forth* God bless America!

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Me: I'm not a Christian, but since every single president seems to end their speeches with `God bless America,' I'd thought I'd put it there too.