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 Digital Archive Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Dear ones, Almost anything one can say about the terrorism last Tuesday is not adequate. Seeing the plane crashing through one of the World Trade Towers, seeing the buildings fall and the slow disappearing of the rubble beneath--these are events and sights none of will forget. It's like a bad science fiction movie. As someone older than you, as someone of a previous generation, as someone who loves you, as a father and friend, I feel the need to communicate my thoughts about our lives right now. I know you didn't ask, and it's not necessary to respond. I was a wee babe when Pearl Harbor was bombed, a child when the atom bomb was dropped twice on Japan, but I lived through the Cold War days of the Fifties when we feared nuclear war, and I lived through the terrible days of the Sixties and Seventies when a series of assassinations--John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lennon--and our well-intentioned misadventure in Vietnam occurred with the loss of forty thousand American lives and who knows how many from other countries, both sides. Here's something I "professed" to my two freshman classes this past week, many of whom were living away from home and family for the first time: On a day like this, when our feelings have been so wrenched, when sadness, fear, and anger take turns in our hearts, it is good to remember that terrorism is not normal, that such evil is not normal, that such acts are cowardly. It is not courageous to commit suicide. Especially when you kill innocent strangers-and when you don't even stick around to live with the consequences of your act. Courage is in those firemen who go into a burning skyscraper to try to save the trapped people. Courage consists of sticking something good out, of staying in it for the long haul, whether it be getting up and going to work every day to contribute your part to the world and to support your family, whether it be staying in a relationship with someone you love and respect through good times and bad, whether it be living with hope and ideals even when such matters are challenged. On days like this, it is good to remember that our civilization, with all its shortcomings and all its marvels, exists on the basis of an almost unimaginable amount of human cooperation and good will. The clothes we wear, the food we eat, the buildings we inhabit, the cars we drive, the roads we drive on, the schools we go to-all these things daily depend upon human courage and cooperation of an almost unimagainable scale. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 9-16-2001 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. The time in which we live 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 email711.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. unknown 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. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. unknown Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. yes Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-10 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 24.245.49.152