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. This is an unashamed exercise in writing about the US and what happened there. I just want to write about it. The horror of the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon remains on my mind. Very much so. I keep asking myself - what kind of rancid, horrific, evil, fanatical hatred could have caused the events of Sep 11 2001? It thoroughly eclipses Dec 7 1941 in US history as a date that will live in infamy. Yesterday was thoroughly immersed in it. Defence is now on a special security alert. I'm not sure how much I can say about the details, other than that they are there. I'd spent the night that it had all happened in a anxious state over a Toastmasters speech on passive smoking that I would be giving the next day, and being quite unable to get myself to rehearse it. I first heard about it at about mid-morning at work when I picked up a copy of the Canberra Times and saw the huge headlines. At lunchtime, every TV available at work was turned on. But it was in the evening when I got off a bus at Manuka to go to the Manuka Toastmasters meeting that things picked up. I went past a Catholic cathedral at Manuka [inner Canberra] with police surrounding it, and discovered that a VIP church service was held held to commemorate the victims. I looked in and it was quite crowded. I arrived at the club and rehearsed my speech. I very nearly changed it to cover the events I had now learnt about. At one point I went out and got called in by Kaye, the club president, who was watching the events on two TVs tuned into two different channels, together with another long-term member called Mike. Both channels were concentrating what had happened with some precision. As soon as a talking head appeared on one of them, the other switched to replays and vice versus. I couldn't bear to watch the scene where that second plane crashed into the second WTC tower more than about twice and soon returned to rehearsals. The entire meeting itself took place under the shadow of the events of the day. Shock and emotion were apparent. Still, we got things done, the meeting went by quite smoothly with little reference to Sep 11 and I passed my speech - which stuck to the topic of passive smoking. Most of us stayed for dinner afterwards and Sep 11 was the main topic of discussion. Many had seen it on TV last night and reference was made to seeing people jumping out of the doomed towers. Speculations were made as to where the fourth plane was headed and what happened. Comparisons were made with "Independance Day" , "Air Force One" and other such productions. I did however get a seat at the table that faced those wretched TVs,and I departed in a glum mood after getting six more replays of that second plane hitting the tower and the collapsing towers. I departed to several goodbyes. But there was no escaping it in Kingston [ a neighbouring suburb]. I looked around and nearly every pub in the Kingston area had a TV on showing what had happened. The only one that did not had a barmaid who I know casually, who knew someone who had been lucky enough to survive the WTC attack. I went home and managed to get to sleep eventually. Today was quieter but still noteworthy for the shadow of Sep 11. One more thing worthy of comment was a passage from a book that I had read quite some time ago. I remembered it last night,and it makes a comment of sorts about the media side of this affair. In page 47 of "How to become Prime Minister", ex-ALP MP Barry Cohen wrote of how there had been a very little-known massacre of 25000 persons in Syria. But because it wasn't on TV after Sale of the Century and because Bob Hawke didn't cry (the passage was in the context of the Tienaman Square massacre) noone was moved by it. What Cohen would have to say about the Estonian deaths, tortures and deportations of 1941 (10,000+ people involved there) must be speculated upon. My maetrnal grandfather and his family was only too vulnerable to this. They certainly came close enough. But Cohen's argument about not being on TV applies here too. Will war break out over this atrocity? We shall see, I guess. Oh well, I hope all is well with you. Actually, I did see a portion of a sermon on TV where a gentleman of Negro origin - I did not catch the name or denomination - mentions that if vengenance was taken we would be headed for an eyeless and toothless society is worth mentioning. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 14 Sep 2001 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients Arno 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. Sep 11 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/. 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