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. While what is represented as your photo as shown in the e-mail someone sent to me could certainly be construed by some viewers to be a photo of a face or caricature of a face, my response to it is: WHO KNOWS or what does it matter??!! One can always visualize images of, what seems to be, animals, flowers or inanimate images in the clouds all of the time -- so what?? Are people <bold>actually</bold> so shallow as to attempt to make this into some image of satan or the image of what has been presented by mankind as satan? If so, they are victims of their own ignorance! Also, being scared "to death" as one person being interviewed on TV put it is <bold>un-American</bold>!!!!!!! this nation is a courageous, brave and strong one! These atrocious, hateful and despicable events perpetrated by <bold>even more hateful and despicable Terrorists</bold> who are <bold>lower </bold>than creepy, crawling things of the earth only cause me to <bold><underline>REDOUBLE</underline></bold> my faith in the American Spirit and determination to overcome this type of cowardice!!! I have renewed my confidence in our elected leaders and their appointees' resolve to root out and destroy this cancer called terrorism!! I, for one, am <bold>not</bold> scared - I fly all of the time in discharging the responsibilities of my profession and I have every intention to continue doing just that!! I will not allow a group, network or whatever to steal from me what we in this nation has built and should put our total existence to maintaining and strengthening - that is the ability to live free of fear! President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was <bold>totally correct</bold> almost 60 years ago when he reminded the American People that "<bold>the only thing to fear is fear, itself"!</bold> He is still correct - today!! People can't allow themselves to become cowardly lions! That is Un-American, also!! My first response is photos can be altered or doctored - I'm not accusing anyone - but given today's technology, who believes anything seen in a photo anymore? Who even believes the news media anymore, for that matter? From my perspective, one of the essences of being an American is to <bold><underline>question</underline></bold> -- anything and everything!! Jerry September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:12:45 EDT September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients info@stellarimages.com September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. STAN1CPA@aol.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. Pictures of World Trade Center 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 Pictures of World Trade Center 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