23 20 70359 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story "Toward A More Perfect Union", Twelve months is barely enough time to comprehend the lessons of 9/11 and its aftermath, but some instruction may be gained with determined scrutiny. I offer three primary considerations: the most obvious, the most difficult, and the most important. The most obvious lesson is the realization that not even the largest and costliest military power on earth could prevent a domestic terrorist attack. The natural corollary to this--that terrorism cannot be effectively dealt with by military means--has not been learned by our government; even though we see this truth demonstrated regularly in other parts of the world. The most difficult lesson is a dawning apprehension of global anti-American sentiment. We have until now believed ourselves benevolent, the champions of liberty. Yet how can this self-perception be reconciled with such hate-motivated attacks and the subsequent mass demonstrations in foreign cities? Are we failing in our responsibility to the world? There is painful understanding to be gained here, and we must summon the will and the courage to approach it. The most important lesson is a recognition of democracy as a precious and fragile living thing--easily uprooted by ignorance or fear, constantly in danger of being trampled under by greed and ambition, especially vulnerable in the wake of enemy attack and the presence of external or internal threat. Like any living thing it will wither or atrophy through neglect, and if subjected to enough abuse may cease to exist altogether. It cannot be taken for granted. To thrive, democracy must be taught and practiced, celebrated and debated, and defended, if necessary, from our leaders. We offer a fitting tribute to those who lost their lives in the attacks of September 11 by learning this last lesson and ensuring that democracy did not perish with them. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story Toward A More Perfect Union: Lessons Learned - Or Not - Since 9/11 September 11, a day that opened Americans heart. This day was a wake up call for everyone. It made Americans realize how evil people are out there. Just to imagine how many people died in that disaster, makes people understand how valuable life is. New York, the city of the Twin Towers; The city of a new history. I am from John Hands Class and Ill be writing about this topic. Children's crying, running , and screaming, while others were making published out of a disaster. Reporters began to realize this when they saw what the reality was and how bad this was. The September 11, made America a better union by bringing everybody together, but also insecure. If we had prevented something like this everything would be the same or better than before. Interrogations were done everywhere I could say that even in my school were real scare that they didnt let us take back packs. I was frustrated that I didnt know what to do. Just by passing through the gas station and seeing the prizes oversimplification made my heart feel sad, for the only reason that I though it was going to be the end of the Word. At this point, I started to think about how many things I didnt get to do and also the things I took for granted. In conclusion, Ill like to say that people don t do anything until something happens. All I can say now is that even though we had that disaster America is looking forward "Toward A More Perfect Union and a better World". Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp101.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story Facing History: The Now People and the Past We are the Now People. The past has no hold over us. We are the land of progress eternal. The past is a nuisance to be destroyed or an object to be commercialized. "History is bunk," said one of our great capitalists, Henry Ford. Americans believe in fresh starts, in letting bygones be bygones. Millions come here to escape their pasts, to flee history and start over. The future is our stock in trade. When tragedy strikes, we look for "closure" so we can "move on." History is for academic weevils and their dusty tomes. Or so we thought. On September 11, 2001, the past caught up with us. When the dust settled, we found ourselves enmeshed in something we thought unimportant - history. Yet we remain in a state of collective denial. We still do not know why 9/11 was allowed to happen. George W. Bush swore to the American people that Osama bin Laden would be captured or killed. One year later, bin Laden's whereabouts remain unknown. Instead, the hawks distract us with fantasies of assault on Iraq. Few object, for we haveindeed ""moved on."" Meanwhile, the President claims that his past business dealings are irrelevant to today's investigations of corporate fraud! On September 11, 2001, the ""American Century"" came to a spectacular end. Fat and complacent, secure in its imagined superiority, America was totally unprepared for its reentry into history. Many speak of the United States as the hyperpower, a globalized Empire about to lead the world into a New Golden Age; a Pax Americana with liberty and McDonald's for all. Yet history is littered with the dust of vanished Empires. If we continue to ignore the past, the Now People will have no future. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp73.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story We owe this country big time. Now we must be more vigilant in protecting our priceless freedom. We are facing realities we have not yet encountered, and we have nowhere else to go. We must be commmitted, not merely involved. It can be explained like a plate of ham and eggs. The ham (pig) is committed, while the egg (chicken) is merely involved. There is a sense of continuity that stretches throughout our country, like a work in progress, like a beacon, to the rest of the world. We are THE living example to a watching world. Our strength likes in our interbreeding, our melting pot, our many cultures. If push comes to shove will we lay our lives and the lives of our citizens on the line, to protect our way of life? This question must be answered. Maybe we will just have to learn to handle it better. Liberty, taken literally, is the right to choose, and we choose to start to heal up the American way of life. We must give our time, money and the inconvenience required. We need an Alpha Dog. In a war, when a Marine officer is killed, they do not look to the next officer in line to command. They look to the one who takes command immediately, whoever is the first. This is the Alpha Dog. We need an Alpha Dog.! Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story It has been a year since we watched two planes fly into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, stunning our minds and changing our lives. At the time, many of us asked why this had happened. A year later, judging from the news about our ""war on terrorism,"" it seems we still have not answered that question. For that answer we need to look, both within the United States, and at our relations with other countries of the world. Twenty years ago, for several years, I lived in Amman, Jordan. The people I knew in Jordan, despite their anger at our support of Israel, admired America and the American people. One of our close friends, a Jordanian who worked for Jordan's English language television network, said he did not understand why Americans, who had so much freedom and the power to influence their government's behavior seemed so uninterested in that government's foreign polices. I told him that Americans led busy lives, and that we depended on our news media to let us know what was going on in the world. If the media did not present both sides of an issue, most Americans did not know their was another side. He shrugged--such a waste of such freedom and power. We may not know much about the people of the Middle East, but our government's policies affect their day to day lives, and in some cases, their freedom or lack thereof. Our democracy within a Republic depends on well-informed citizens. We owe it to ourselves, to the founders of our Republic, and to the world that is so impacted by our behavior to find the answers we need, to make decisions based on a sense of justice and responsibility. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp76.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story "Toward A More Perfect Union", "On September 11, 2001, I rolled over in bed and, as always, fumbled for the remote to turn on the morning news. I woke up to a nightmare. I grew up in the shadow of the Big Apple, and I sat shocked as the skyline, solid as a mountain, crumbled. Like so many Americans that morning I felt helpless. At the time, people talked about the loss of innocence, and one question was heard across the nation, "Why?" Those attacks were considered a wake up call and a chance to reflect on our nations role in the world: could we be accountable for creating a hatred felt so deep terrorists would smash planes into our buildings; do we need to be more aware of our civic responsibilities? If childhood ended that day, we must now be in adolescence. As a nation ourresponse was to strike back with raw emotion and a year later, our nationsleaders are not directing the nation to becoming a responsible citizen of theworld. Bush is threatening war with Iraq, whether were with him or against him. He breaks treaties. American citizens are held without charge in military prisons, while his Administration defies court orders. He tries to silence dissent with pleas of patriotic duty and secrecy. It seems hes intent on shredding the very rights he claims hes protecting. Why? Its time we honored our civic duties, speak up, and stop sleepwalking through the world. In 1941 Senator Robert A. Taft said, "(T)he right of criticism in the long run will do the country maintaining it a great deal more good than it will do the enemy, and will prevent mistakes which might otherwise occur." On September 11, thousands of voices were silenced; do we want its legacy to silence even more? Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp62.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story ""Toward A More Perfect Union: Lessons Learned - Or Not - Since 9/11"" As a person who saw the Twin Towers destroyed, I say passionately that what people should have learned from 9/11 is how dangerous contempt is, and the urgent need to be against it. Eli Siegel, poet, philosopher, and founder of the education Aesthetic Realism, showed that contempt "the lessening of what is different from oneself as a means of self-increase as one sees it" is the cause of all the cruelty and injustice that has ever been. In the international journal, The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, Class Chairman of Aesthetic Realism Ellen Reiss writes: Contempt is what impelled the persons who arranged for human beings to be killed and buried under 110 stories of rubble near the Hudson River on a beautiful September morning. Yet our leaders have responded to this contempt by having enormous contempt themselves: by trying to make the Constitution worthless and democracy redundant, and by continuing to act with brutal indifference to what millions of people around the world feel and deserve. Ellen Reiss explains: Every one of us would like to issue an executive order: ëI want the world on my termsóand fast! And I wont stand for any questioning in the matter. In the instance of a national leader, the ability to have things on ones own terms and unquestioned affects millions of people, often in the most crucial, intimate, agonizing, life-or-death ways. And this contempt pervades the American attitude to the rest of the world, friend and foe alike. In "#1 Rogue Nation," USA Today writes: Around the world many see the US as arrogant, hypocritical, self-absorbed, self-indulgent, and contemptuous of others. For the world to be safe and 9/11 made this an emergency people everywhere must study and oppose contempt everywhere, including in themselves and in their leaders. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp67.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story Toward a More Perfect Union We should take a deep breath and admit that the shock of September 11 left us behaving like idiots. Like others I was shocked, but on reflection not really surprised. Finally, to get some perspective I pretended that commuter passenger planes had plowed into 2 office buildings in my home town, Great Falls, Montana, killing some people and taking out 10% of our office space. So, I divided 3,000 by 8,000,000 (9/11 deaths and New York population) and then multiplied that by the Great Falls' population of 54,000. Thus equivalent deaths locally would have been 20. The first thing that struck me was that between life and other insurance that most people carry and local churches/charities/social service agencies we could have taken care of 20 families ourselves. Certainly the whole of Montana could have taken care of these families. Yet, after September 11 various groups, organizations, and individuals here in Montana--and elsewhere--went hysteric raising money and goods for New York. Why? I guess we do so because we were dumbfounded that someone/anyone could dare attack us. We felt we had to do something. However, upon sober reflection the only thing we really had to do was to demand a change in our belligerent foreign policy. The sad irony is that our foreign policy has gotten more bellicose. And, as a pathetic footnote, Congress has gleefully joined the Administration in shredding the Bill of Rights. Shame on us. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp204.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story Post 9/11 Journalism Continues to Forsake Public Interest If ever there were ever an event that highlighted the essential role that journalism plays in America, it was the 9/11 tragedy. Immediately after the terrorist attacks, most of the nation tuned to national news outlets for information, wisdom, and guidance in figuring out what exactly happened and why. What we got from the news media reflected the shameful state of journalism in America. With some exceptions, the national news outlets -- particularly television news programs -- simply lacked the staff and expertise to report on the story with requisite depth and nuance. Forced by their giant corporate owners to squeeze more profit from news operations, the network news outletsóin the years leading up to 9/11ósteadily cut back on foreign news coverage. The 9/11 tragedy exposed the problem, but in the aftermath nothing changed. For example, earlier this year Disney, which owns ABC, tried to lure David Letterman from CBS to ABC by offering him Nightlines time slot. The reason: Nightline was not profitable enough. If there was any remaining doubt about whether media corporations might take their public interest responsibilities more seriously after 9/11, it was erased by their unrelenting and largely successful lobbying campaign to pressure the Federal Communications Commission to rescind regulations limiting large corporations from owning multiple news outlets. This regulatory change would, of course, allow media corporations to make even more moneyóat the expense of professional journalism. Neither the surging patriotism after 9/11 nor the aura of public interest surrounding journalism after the attacks has inspired the corporate media executives to acknowledge that the demands for maximizing profit from news operations should be lessenedóeither voluntarily or by government regulationóto keep Americans informed and our democracy viable. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp165.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story Toward A More Perfect Union Written Sept. 2001 The past six weeks the weather in New Jersey is picture perfect. The vivid bright orange, yellow and red leaves are prominent. This autumn Americans lives are persecuted by sudden terror and fear. Our lives and our families are threatened. First, the World Trade Center Attack, and now Anthrax What is next? The United States General Accounting Office has for the past fifty years reported to Congress and the President failures of our aviation security and the potentiality of terrorists attacks. The General Accounting office informed Congress that the Department of Justice, the FBI and the CIA were accepting bribes, using government funds for personal use and all government agencies were negligent in protecting the security of America. June 16, 2001, Florida/New Jersey Four are arrested on Arms Smuggling Charges According to CNN report on Friday U. S. Stinger missiles and other high-tech weapons to private buyers in Pakistan. Sources close to terrorists groups. There is a probable cause that show the men attempted to transport explosives with the knowledge they would be used to kill, injure, or destroy property in violation of U. S. law. Press Releases 2000 An Immigration and Naturalization Service official in Boston, was indicted and charged with two counts of soliciting and accepting bribes. The inducement charges that from May 1999 until June 2000, Theodore Filandrianos solicited and accepted bribes from naturalization candidates in return for assisting them with the naturalization process. Why doesn't Congress listen to these reports? Are we to blame because we are not involved in our government activites? I do not want myself, my husband, children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, or friends and family to become a victim of disaster to aid the greed of power and might. Congress has not been governing for the people by the people. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story Retirement is a bad subject, starting to think like a politician though." "They'll just have to throw Me out !!!"" Enie Menie Minie Moe. Which way will the Nation go. It's hard to say with all this Pride. But, GOD, you bet is on OUR side. The Great God of Moses, teaches this. The Laws of Allah, tell us that. I guess it's either, Hell or Bust For this Nation knows, in which God, WE trust. In time, I'm sure this all will pass. Like a bad midnight, attach of gas. The Nation's woe and fearful blight. Will pass away just like the night. But until we're told that it's all clear By, We The People, we hold so dear Remember the Pledge of Liberty and Justice for all. (May not apply in your state) And pray we get to Vote again. That's All. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp139.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story Toward A More Perfect Union: Lessons Learned or Not: Since 9/11 My heart racing, my foot tapping as I watched nervously the twin towers colliding with the cause of a single aircraft on each building. I felt as if I were in a dream, a dream being watched, but I wasnt dreaming. As I saw the smoke, the lights, people scared and running with his certain look on their face, I knew this was going to be a day never forgotten. September 11, 2001, who wouldve thought that would be a day to take a big part of NY and never be forgotten. The twin towers played a big part of NY and now that part is missing. Many peoples lives were taken and changed forever. This past summer when I visited NY and passed ground zero, I was deeply saddened as to what I saw. There was once two tall buildings and now are gone with nothing but construction and flowers by the gate left by families who lost a loved one. As much as this was a tragedy, this also played a big part of unity. We not only learned to unite and work together as a nation, but to be proud to live in the United States of America. September 11 has brought a big impact on the way people now act and feel. There is a lot more respect, kindness, and generosity towards one another. We also learned the U.S. government should have taken terrorist threats more seriously. We do know now that any little threat we should take seriously and be prepared for anything about to come. September 11, is a day we shall never forget. A day that not only brought the nation together, but more aware of whats about to come our way. One nation under God, we shall stay strong and united. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp129.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story What So Proudly We Hailed American Consumerism Sullies the Flag It seems Americans have always been prone to passionate buying stampedes. Remember the infamous Tickle-Me-Elmo, and in more recent consciousness, the Furby? Now, as forgotten Elmos and Furbies litter basements, garages, and give-away piles across America, the country has moved onto a more ëpatriotic frenzy of consumerism. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = ""urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"" /> Yup, the good old Stars and Stripes has been enjoying its precious moments as the new most wanted item. Americans are buying as much as ever, just for a different reason. Christmas inspired the Furbies, and September 11 inspired the flags. But the big difference is that sticking the flag on everything causes much greater damage than a few Furbies. I know what Im expected to say: the flag frenzy is good, its patriotic, it stems from innocent love of country, unlike those selfish past shopping sprees. Sadly, that couldnt be further from the truth. By commercializing the American flagóusing it for advertising purposes, wearing it, sticking it on carsóthe flag is trivialized. Americans are quickly losing their reverence for what used to be the sacred symbol of our freedom and ideals. Dont get me wrong. I wouldnt mind if every house in the country had a flag flying proudly from its flag staff. But flying flags on cars is a completely different story. Much too quickly, car flags become a tattered, barely recognizable red white and blue piece of cloth. The simple fact is that hardly any fabric can endure 70 mph speeds. If I remember correctly, people once had to be careful to not let the flag touch the ground. So how did we get to this point, where it is perfectly okay to transform Old Glory into a shredded rag and drive it through mud puddles? Immediately following 9/11, car flags were everywhere. Now their presence has waned. There have been many reports of flags soaring off of cars on highways. It certainly seems likely that many of these missing flags are littering the sides of interstates across America. We call it patriotism to let the symbol of our country rot next to cast-off apple cores? According to the United States Flag Code, "the flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever." However, companies of all sizes are flapping Old Glory on billboards and storefronts, confusing the message of consumerism with the message of patriotism. This breach of the Flag Code just further blurs the line of what are acceptable uses of the flag. More upsetting still is the fashion trend that has sprung from 9/11. Wearing the Stars and Stripes used to be considered desecrating the flag, and warranted arrest! Hard to believe in these times when the flag is slapped on everything under the sun. Among the most upsetting clothing items are flag handkerchiefsówhat person with a healthy respect for their country would consider blowing their nose on its symbol? The list goes on and on. There are shirts made from real flags (ready to have Coke spilled down the front by the patriotic wearer) and flag thongs (I wont even go there). Trivializing a symbol does not show respect for it. Religious groups wisely keep their symbols sacred. Christians do not use the cross as, for lack of a better example, a toothpick. What makes Americans think that blowing their nose in the flag shows love for country? Im sad to say that the flag wavers do not even seem to have good intentions. In the days following 9/11, people were flag-crazy and the stores were not stocked up yetóa lethal combination. Many people were stealing flags off other peoples cars, showing a more selfish side to the "innocent" display of love for America. The flag trend is just that: a trend. The vast majority of people with their flag accessories are just following whats fashionable, pushing and stealing if necessary to keep up with the Joneses. The herd mentality seems especially dominant in American culture. This new ëpatriotic trend is a prime example of too much of a good thing. The American flag is being trivialized right and left; the Stars and Stripes have become commonplace. Once not too long ago, people felt a tremor of pride whenever they saw the noble American flag rippling in the wind. Now with the flag on everything from Chinese take-out containers to flower pots, it is impossible to still feel that same surge of respect a thousand times a day. In these post-9/11 days, Americans have lost much more than they realizeóthat intangible but essential thing called reverence. Without it, the glorious American flag is just a piece of red white and blue cloth. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp17.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story Melvin, have you rehearsed the song I wrote for you? Well, boss, we wrote something of our own. What do you mean, something of your own? I write the songs around here, I call the shots, I deposit the checksÖ But boss, there's something we thought needed to be said, just listen. It's about September 12th. You mean September 11th, 9-11, right? No boss, I mean September 12th. Really? What happened on September 12th? Just listen, boss. Soon the media will dwell On a day we remember all too well. The World Trade towers and the fires they'll show. We'll all grieve and rightly so. But something else tragic happened that day Not so very far away. Twenty thousand gave up the ghost Just when the world could have helped them the most. What are you talking about, Melvin? What 20,000 gave up the ghost? Where? Well, boss, I'm talking about the 20,000 people who die each day in the world from starvation and preventable disease. Every day, September 10, September 11, September 12, that's about 7-1/2 million people a year, boss. Not to mention the millions more who just live in grinding poverty and miserable conditions but do manage to survive. Well, that's hard to believe, Melvin. I mean, that may be so, but I don't see what that has to do with what happened on 9-11. I think it's disrespectful to even make the comparison, why, it'sÖ It's what, boss? It's what's been on my mind, that's all. Here, sing along with us. Well, I hardly think I'll be singing alongÖ How can we forget the day, Three thousand got blown away. But what a shock to start to explore That that day, and the day after, and the day before Twenty thousand dropped like flies Right before the world's uncaring eyes. So while you bask in our bounty and wealth Remember September 12th. Melvin, that's shocking. That's absolutely insensitiveÖunpatriotic! What's unpatriotic about it, boss? Well, with all due respect to those starving Africans and everything, the 3,000 who died were Americans. Well, mostly Americans. Well, are Americans lives more important than other people's lives? WellÖwell yes, by God they are. I don't think God would agree with you on that one, boss. September 11th, we'll never forget. You remember where you were, I bet. While America went about its biz We found out what terror is. But not so very far away Millions barely hang on every day. So while you enjoy your radiant health Remember September 12th. Well, Melvin, perhaps they're used to a life of terror, as you call it. We're not. What happened here was intentional, preventable. Well, the 20,000 a day are preventable, too, boss. That's what the experts say. Really? I find that hard to believe. Just look it up, boss. Anywhere. There could be plenty food and water and health care for everyone if we cared enough. But when was the last time you heard it even brought up in the papers or on radio or on TV? Well, well, let me think. That's my point, boss, I guess it's not very important. Well, frankly, maybe that's just their bad luck. If they just applied themselves and pulled themselves up by their bootstraps. Gimme a break, boss. Do you think you could survive for a week in those conditions, without your credit cards, without adequate food, water and health care? I think it would be Sayonara for you, bossÖ In fact, when your time comes your little soul might even , boss. Well, we can't spend our time worrying about everybody in the world, Melvin. We have plenty to do improving the moral fiber of this country. We can't be worrying about the whole human race. I think it's a waste of time to even try. Right, boss, moral fiber. I guess people like Bill Gates and the thousands of people who are struggling to help turn things around are just dreamers. Yeah, Bill Gates has no grasp of reality, he never accomplished anything, right, boss? Well, well. So while we bask in our bounty and wealth, Remember September 12th. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp186.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story Toward A More Perfect Union: Lessons Learned- Or Not- Since 9/11 September 11, was a wake up call for the Americans. Then, what did we see when we open our eyes? Now that we see that our United States have been attacked, people started to get together because of this horrible thing that had happened. Nobody had the idea that this could happened; September 11, is a day to remember. This day was a big tragedy to our US. Many innocent people was killed, families were destroyed, little innocent children were attacked but, who would of think this was going to happened exactly this day? This is a day that opened Americans eyes to the reality, a wake up call. In plain sight, I think that there needs to be more protection, the government needs to consider that there is a big risk in our lives. And, what will happen this next 9/11? Nobody knows, expectantly, if something like this happens, we need to get and be ready. Authority of the government need to be prepared in order to avoid another affliction like 9/11 and to make a better world full of peace. Apparently, to my point of view, I think that this day we would never forget, this would stay in our minds for the rest of our lives. It is a day that all things that were happening stay in Americans heart. Finally, Id like to assume that September 11, is a day that opened all Americans heart, and that of course made this day a historical day. 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San Benito High School Assigned by John Hand English 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story It serves them right a taxi driver told me on the day after 9/11, in Sri Lankas capital, Colombo, while expressing sorrow at the tragedy. When Colombo Airport was attacked in July 2001, the US Government advised its citizens to stay away from here. The attack on the WTC proved that targets in the USA were as prone to terrorist attacks as Sri Lankas. However, his grim satisfaction at justice seemingly done was more than mere fulfilled vindictiveness. A decade ago Bill Clinton said something to the effect that, under Bush, America was in danger of becoming like Sri Lanka. This tendency, of making this island out to be just one step above the civilisation of the apes, was one perpetuated by cartoonists like Gary Trudeau and the author of the Brenda Starr strip and it represented something more than the mere parochial. It was an expression of a superiority complex, sneering at what was considered the innate backwardness of the darker-hued people from poorer countries, the affairs of which were not considered important. The strange thing is that this attitude did not change after 9/11. What followed seemed to be not so much the outpouring of grief at the tragedy, as vengefulness at this insult to the pride of the superpower. There was rage against Muslims, who were subject to public venom; retaliation against someone was the need of the hour. Taking a long hard look at how other people look at the USA may be the way to avoid a repetition of the tragedy of 9/11. Understanding the viewpoint of my taxi driver might be a step in adopting a foreign policy that is acceptable to the rest of the world - and that would need to be one that looked at the rest of the world differently. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp82.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story America has always been thought of as a very strong and independent nation by millions of people. But do those people still feel that way? There have always been threats against America by terrorists but obviously not all of them have turned out to be false. There were threats prior to 9/11 that make it seem like the government did not take them seriously enough. Does this not sound like Pearl Harbor? There were attack warnings back then too that also went ignored. If the government, or our leaders, would have addressed these warnings with as much concern as they have for wanting to be the most powerful country, maybe none of this ever would have happened. Since that day almost a year ago, security all over the nation has been increased tremendously. People coming into this country are being checked more closely to make sure they are not terrorists. That is all good; but what about those terrorists that have lived here in the states for several years now? We may not know it, but did anyone know those men who had lived here and taken flight lessons here would crash airplanes filled with innocent lives into the Twin Towers and kill thousands? So what has America learned from this? Even though, no one will ever be able to replace those innocent lives or fill in those empty places in so many peoples hearts, I hope America has learned that we arent a perfect untouchable nation. Anything can happen at any given time, but hopefully our leaders will make the right decisions and take all, even very unlikely threats, seriously. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp147.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story September 11th, 2001 marked the end of national media attention to Election 2000: there was a sense, in the dog-days of August 2001 that the 'official' line of 'just get over it' was crumbling and that the greatest political crisis in the U.S. since Watergate was about to make a resurgence into the headlines. The September 17th issue of Newsweek contained articles critical of the election 2000 decision, and Rolling Stone was preparing a story on the Washington Press Corps' slanted coverage of Al Gore's 2000 campaign. The NORC recount was gathering steam and spooking the administration; GOP representatives had begun to show up at Recount locations to scrutinize the methods employed and criticize the inclusion of ballots they considered tainted. The attacks in New York and Washington changed all that, and Election 2000 disappeared down the memory hole. The national media immediately adopted all the trappings of a full-blown war-time reporting service, replete with flags and ribbons. Self-censorship, blind devotion to the every utterance of the Administration, and the suppression of criticism became the core attributes of the national media, particularly the Big Three networks and the cable news outlets. Newsweek published on September 17th as planned, but the attitude of the national media transformed from one mildly skeptical of the Bush administration to one of slavish admiration. Questions about the disputed election of 2000 were relegated to the scrap heap of history: they were 'so September 10th.' This posture of abasement at the feet of the Executive Branch seemed to suit the national media to a 'T'. Where media outlets had been slow to attack the administration on the support it gave 'bourgeois rioters' in Miami, and had frozen out journalists such as Bob Parry and Greg Palast before September 11th, now they condemned questions about Election 2002 as 'unpatriotic,' even 'treasonous.' Relieved of the responsibility of acting as a 'national watchdog' by the broad support the Bush administration enjoyed post 9/11, the major media outlets became what they seemed to have wanted to be all along: unthinking cheerleaders for a Cheerleader Presidency Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp228.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story What have we learned from 9/11? Look at the budget and tell me where this government should put our taxes - in the coffers of a bunch of greedy corporate welfare recipients, or into our own people and communities? The tax base a year ago was said to consist of: 90% from individual citizens in this and only 10% of it came from corporations. Now the corporate taxes have dropped two more percent to even less ñ around 8% while the rest of the country groans under the weight of debt and corporate welfare. Hello? We already know that almost 50% of the working people in this country are working below poverty level which means that the very tax dollars taken from the poor are a huge part of over half of the tax base. This money is being put into places like subsidizing Enron-like corporations for so-called ""services"" - what services? You mean it is a ""service"" to gut the municipalities of the energy they depend upon and throw states into a state of emergency so a few CEOs can get their golden parachutes and leave the rest of their workers to starve while states pay the bill? Some service! What is happening here and why am I weeping? Perhaps it is because it is only getting worse. I have lost count of the staggering number of corporations who've benefited from this sort of ""support"" which is nowhere near the paltry 2% of our national budget going for social welfare or the 4% taken from out of 47% of the budget being used to pay our nations finest - soldiers who make wages that put them below the poverty line. Soldiers being used as political footballs in the name of 9/11. Nothing has changed my leaders' mind- nothing Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp218.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story Toward A More Perfect Union We Are Not Alone Stephen Sondheims "Into the Woods", like the best traditional fairy tales and myths, deeply resonates in reality. In the Winter issue of the Sondheim Review, comments attached the events of 9/11 to the song ""No One Is Alone"". The thought was that Americans had been brought together for comfort after the experience of terror, and that is a plausible use of half the song. There is, however, a more important implication for the present unease, and that seems not to have been noticed. In the song, the phrase ""you are not alone"" also insists that what one does has consequences, and there is another relevant sense in which Americans are not alone. Since World War Two, our fundamentalism- economic rather than religious- has led us to kill perhaps six million people, directly or through sanctions and surrogates. Several hundred thousand of these victims have been Muslims, beginning with our replacement of the socialist government of Iran with the hereditary Shah through our recent restoration of the feudal monarchy in Kuwait and our first Afghan war in which we replaced another socialist government with primitive fundamentalists. The 9/11 perpetrators were "our" Saudi fundamentalists left over from our first Afghan war, but now our self-appointed leaders have killed again in Afghanistan, perhaps because of all the countries in the world it is least able to fight back, and our masters feel impelled to kill somebody in retaliation for 9/11. Adding absurdity to homicide, our leaders and press tell us that we are hated because we are so good. It is because we are not alone, and we are not careful of the things we do. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp202.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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