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. Like the majority of america, i watched the devastation on CNN at school until the media started doing it's job and showing the most grotesque scenes of people jumping out of the twin towers and such. It sickens me that ratings are still an issue in a time like that. NMAH Story: Life Changed Has your life changed because of September 11, 2001? If so, tell us how. September 11 hasn't changed my life drastically. I think I live too far from ground zero in Arizona to really grasp the concept of the twin towers being absent in the Manhattan skyline and the real effects it has. But in the long run, this whole thing sickness me. No matter what we say, the U.S. brought this upon itself. I'm not condoning the attacks in anyway, 9/11 was a horrible act and should never be condoned or rationalized, but the fact is, the U.S. isn't the great shining beacon of freedom and democracy everyone in the U.S. is lead to believe. I read somewhere that 15% of the population has passports. 15%. That means 85% of Americans have never been outside of the U.S. before. They are ignorant to the situation outside of this country with the exception of what they see on T.V.(media, what a joke). Americans don't realize this kind of thing happens all the time in countries everywhere but here. I forget who it was that said this but he was a british politician that said "American hides between their 2 oceans." What he said was very true. American is very isolated from the rest of the world. American is nothing like Europe with many countries sharing boarders with each other. This is why American are so ignorant. They are ignorant the fact that America is just too nosy into other peoples problems and that is the reason why people outside of this country are so anti-american. But instead of doing a head on aproach like vietnam, they do sneaky little things like giving weapons to Iran to fight Iraq and Iraq to fight Iran. WE gave weapons to Osama to fight Russian in a revolution, and when we asked for them back, he said no. Whoever is reading this, 10, 100, even 1000 years from now, just remember, America isn't the good, riteous country people said it was. This country might have the best form of government, but that doesn't mean it is always right in it's causes. NMAH Story: Remembered What do you think should be remembered about September 11th? see above 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? I did fly a flag. I think this whole issue about the flag and it's meaning, the questioning of the pledge of allegiance, it's all just nonsense. Questioning if we should say a pledge in the begining of school because it has one line that refers to "God" is ludicrious. Do kids, the people that are actually saying this, care? 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 nmah3031.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. 2002-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 68.63.194.238