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 Nothing characterizes our age more than its inevitability. Only a child would not expect another terrorist attack. "It is not if but when." And it is only always a matter of time that "our resilience" will prevail to everywhere accommodate ""our destiny."" Nothing is more inevitable than "our" destiny. Why all the talk of inevitability? Since 9/11, the official eschatology has been mostly pronounced by those who have the power to make it so. The rhetorical masterstroke has been the unity of Americans to embattle the "evildoers." Our destiny means "we will prevail" just as surely as we will be offered reasons to prevail. It is around these reasons that the Great Men convene to meet our destiny. Caught up in this inevitability have been disparate evildoers: illegal aliens who remain detained without charge, some others held incommunicado, to citizens who don't-watch-what-they-say enough to evade detection of TIPS volunteers. But these are, we are told, the costs of our destiny. With so much inevitability to preserve, one wonders about the culpability of the Great Men. Our destiny requires blood. About this inevitability we'd do well to recall that not long ago 58,152 persons were destined to die inIndochina. To be sure, these dead were no Great Men. Only one person from the Harvard class of '70 served in combat. Only one Congressman's son ever saw battle in Vietnam. It turns out that who is either with us or against us is just as possible as our collective future. One thing we can know--even as Iraq and elsewhere become inevitable--is who makes history behind our backs. Often we'll findit has not been, inevitably, "us," but some others whose blood will neverflow eagerly to meet our destiny. 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 tp205.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. 2003-03-10