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 ""Toward A More Perfect Union"" Let's call him Doc. He is one of the Little Men. I've known Doc for a bout 20 years. My contacts with him have been fleeting, my conversations with him short, but I know that he sometimes lives on the street when he is losing the battle against his chemical, emotional, mental, physical and spiritual demons. When I saw Doc a week or so after September 11th, 2001, he was on one of his losing streaks. The horrible images of the destruction of the World Trade Center and at the Pentagon were still fresh in my mind. I asked Doc what he thought of it all. He looked at me, cocked his head to one side, thought a moment and said, ""For a motherfucker like me, it was just another day."" We have learned more since 9/11 than I can set down here. I wonder if we have learned anything about Doc, his brothers and sisters, his sons and daughters? Do we know that the Doc's of this great country, worried about finding a job, a place to stay, something to eat, ""ain't feelin'"" our pain and sorrow, our anger and loss, our need for revenge? Does the more perfect union we have attempted to forge in the aftermath of the attacks include Doc, who, like Rudyard Kipling's Tommy Atkins is ""chucked out"" in peacetime, but who is ""Savior of his country when the guns begin to shoot?"" Have we learned that the Little Men count as much as the Big Men--maybe more, since there are so many more of them? I last saw Doc about a month ago. He was sober, happy, healthy and working. A spirit such as his is one which this union will need to live long and prosper. If it rejects him, brands him a loser, can it long stand? 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 tp68.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. 2003-02-28