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 September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I wish to contribute this on the fifth year anniversary of 9/11. Here we are 5 years down the road and I do not feel like we have adequately responded to the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11/01! We entered IRAQ under false assumptions and I feel that we (the country) were lied to at that time. We were told that Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) and that this was why it was urgent for us to get into IRAQ and overthrow S. Hussein and eliminate the threat to OUR security, especially after the attack on the WTCs and the Pentagon. Lo and behold, there were NO WMDs, not even Chemical threats found in IRAQ! Should we have invaded IRAQ? Was S. Hussein a tyrannt? Yes, I believe he was 9a tyrannt) and now we are engaged in attempting to bring stability and order to what we believe is to their benefit, a type of democracy. Is this right? Is this our place to do? Should we be spending all of this money on IRAQ, when we have storm demolished areas of our country that have not been rebuilt? Should we be paying for the establishment of some sort of democracy in IRAQ, while we have starving, underpriveleged, underpaid, uneducated and unemployed legions in the USA? NO! Since we are already there, should we pull out? No, not just all of a sudden, however our politicians, must be held to account for their mistakes and we must be told the truth. Recently our President admitted to CIA camps around the world holding terrorists, which he claims that he did not know were torturing or mistreating their captives. Is this wrong? I believe that it is wrong that he claims that he did not know something, I believe that he did know and is attempting to distance himself from it for political reasons, only. Our country, sadly is in terrible shape, economically! I fear for our children and their children. I believe in GOD and Country and I love the USA and for our history but I feel that the time that we are living through now will go down in history as a dark period in our history and I pray for the grace of GOD and wisdom for our politicians. 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 story20560.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2006-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 152.163.100.70