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Stuart is lately (2025) fixed on 9/11 and is watching numerous videos and movies based on the unimaginable disaster. An acrophobe, he cannot fathom the choices the victims faced above the impact zones. He believes Welles Remy Crowther is one of the greatest Americans and defines heroism. He is trying to work it all out through poetry. It is past the time of rescuing anyone, but he offers some solace in alternative views of that day, ones of imagined rescue. In the real world, he has sent fire safety ideas to fire departments in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, the last of which has an active helicopter rescue plan. He views that day as Hell on Earth and hopes you will allow him to rectify the tragedy - even if only through poetry. "Day of Fire" is the only epic poem on 9/11. In it he loosely follows Dante's Inferno, only it is set in the Twin Towers. The journey is not down through the nine circles of Hell, but down from Hell and to The Light. He thanks Father Mark Hanna, hero from the Port Authority, for his invitation to read the poem before the mayor of East Brunswick, New Jersey on 9/11 for the 25th anniversary. This poem refers in deed but not by name many of the day's heroes.