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 "Satan in the Smoke" Emails Description An account of the resource On the morning of September 11, immediately after two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in Manhattan, photojournalist Mark D. Phillips took a picture that would prove to be one of the most evocative and disputed images of that tragic day. Many peple later construed the image of the smoke in his photo of the burning buildings to compose the face of Satan. These e-mails related to this picture provide a revealing portal into Americans' responses to the attacks in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. I have spoken to several fellow employees who are "spooked" by your picture. I don't understand why they would be. Provided it is not a doctored photo, everyone assumes that because it is a picture of Satan that it must be a message >from him. Couldn't it just as easily be a message from God that the tragedy that was occurring was Satan's doing? When the incident first happened, I was sure that God was "on our side" so to speak. Then someone started talking about the fall of the city of Babel as described in Revelations 18 and saying that the twin towers were Babylon. Since I never understood Revelations and never really studied it, I was susceptible to the idea. If that was true, then heaven rejoiced at the downfall of the towers (or city of Babylon). For a few days I was starting to wonder if we were on the right side (after all, if heaven rejoiced, then whoever did the bombing must have been doing God's will). After a little research, I came to believe that there is no chance that the twin towers could represent Babylon. According to the timeline of events the Bible gives, it is not time for Babylon to fall yet. Therefore, when I saw the picture on the side of the building, it kind of reaffirmed to me that the bombing<bold> was</bold> the work of Satan. It was kind of a reaffirmation that yes, we are on the right side. This was an evil act, committed by evil people. Just because God put a stamp on it to show us all that it was an evil act should not make us more afraid or "spooked" than we were before. Evil may have won the round, but we know they can not win the war. We should all thank God for pointing evil out to us in such an amazing way. So often, evil acts and evil people are not recognized for what they are. I, for one, see this sign as a good and comforting thing, a message >from my Lord to remind me that this tragedy was an evil act and that it will not go unpunished by God. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:09:00 -0400 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients "'info@stellarimages.com'" <info@stellarimages.com> September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. Dorcas Calhoun <DorcasCalhoun@ACMGinc.com> September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. 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. email 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. 2001-09-21