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 TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story THE HOME ON 9/11: agenda interrupted In the retirement home's living room that morning, several elderly residents are relaxing after breakfast, watching TV, getting ready for their community exercise period - a regimen that contributes to the quiet dimensions of their daily lives. The program is suddenly interrupted by breaking news and the residents are becoming upset at what the announcer is saying, starting to speak loudly to one another: ""incredible, outrageous, awful..."" A few of them are starting to cry, touching one another. Then, after a pause, they all shout at once, some jumping out of their chairs, pointing at the TV. The shouting and yelling does on for several minutes until a few nurses arrive, attracted by this disturbance, themselves becoming upset. Why such wailing? The announcer estimates that fifty thousand people have been working in the World Trade Center complex of buildings into which two airliners have just crashed, full of passengers and fuel. Eight thousand body bags are being made available to the rescuers, a rough estimate of how many fatalities are expected. A woman walking a stroller a mile away when the first tower collapses is caught in a wall of debris, dirt and soot and simply disappears. Meanwhile, as reported live on CNN, many Palestinians are celebrating in the streets, shooting guns off harmlessly, singing and jumping out of sheer joy, distributing candies to cheering children. Difficult juxtaposition of images. Relatives of the missing are desperately walking around New York City with photographs of their loved ones, but that is no longer the condition of many of the bodies that they are looking for. Some bodies are now part of all that ash; the others are in pieces, identifiable only by DNA analysis. Hospitals are releasing lists of body parts: we have a lady's lower arm...can you identify this watch? we have a muscular upper arm...can you identify this tattoo? All the home's residents are fixed to the television set for most of the day and evening, missing meals and activities. Few residents at the home can sleep that night. Memories of Pearl Harbor keeps them awake. Are we going to war again? Will it be the grandchildren's turn to disappear? You can hear the whispering - comparisons of World War II and Korean War stories. In some rooms, the whispering goes on into the early hours of the next morning. Yes, of course, it is happening again! Haven't you had enough time to build such unexpected interruptions into your daily schedule yet? Haven't you lived long enough to know better, for crying out loud?? 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 tp168.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. 2003-03-03