Thirty thousand. An antiwar poem by me. #poetry

On July 28th, 1945 the Empire was struck —
     three air crew and eleven people died.
On September 11th, 2001 the empire was struck —
     thirty thousand committed suicide.
     

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Notes:

1. Remembering the 1945 Empire State Building plane crash. https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/07/27/remembering-the-1945-empire-state-building-plane-crash/

2. High suicide rates among United States Service Members and Veterans of the Post 9/11 Wars. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2021/Suicides