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: Bearing Witness to History" Stories Submitted Online Description An account of the resource Visitors to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's, "Bearing Witness to History" online exhibition submitted these reflections beginning in 2002. NMAH Story NMAH Story: Story How did you witness history on September 11th? Share your experience. I watched on television with my father. I was preparing to go to the funeral of a lovely family friend who had been killed the previous Friday in a tragic horse riding accident. It was altogether a dreadful day. My father, was 75, sat there and cried and said, "The world has gone mad." At that time, we didn't yet know that we were to lose several family friends. NMAH Story: Life Changed Has your life changed because of September 11, 2001? If so, tell us how. It's so easy now to be overcome with emotion when thinking about the senselessness and evil of this act. My country is at war and it is a war not of our choosing. We will never be the same here. I know a lot of people who served overseas and all of them said something to the effect of, "Well, now Americans know how the rest of the world feels. This is the way things are." Well I don't agree with that. The rest of the world shouldn't have allowed terrorism to continue for so long. As usual, it will take the Americans to set this problem right. And we will do it. Right or wrongly, we will accomplish it. NMAH Story: Remembered What do you think should be remembered about September 11th? That hatred and revenge are terrible emotions and resulted in thousands of innocent lives to be lost and thousands of innocent children to lose a parent or loved one. But Americans need to be more aware of the rest of the world. There is widespread hunger and poverty beyond our understanding all around us and we continue on our merry way. This doesn't work as we have now witnessed. This breeds hatred and contempt. We need to find a way to reach out to those that hate us and help them to understand that we are not bad. The problem is, though, that we allow American corporations and the government to do really stupid and harmful things around the world with no repercussions. To many bad things are done in the name of "progress". This is really greed. We cannot continue to exploit people and expect them to like us. As a people, we are very good but our institutions let us down too often. People should pay attention to what we are doing around the world and they should protest when it isn't right (and voting would be a good idea also). NMAH Story: Flag Did you fly an American flag after the events of September 11th? Have your feelings about the American flag changed as a result of September 11th? Yes, I am still flying the flag. I have always respected the flag as a symbol of all that is good in my country. I continue to respect it but hope that everyone (government and private companies) behave in a respectful manner that does not insult our flag when we are operating overseas. All cultures are different and we need to understand that, not exploit it. 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 nmah877.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. 2002-09-04 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 64.12.96.70