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. Subject: The Phrase what do you folks make of this note that came over the transom? i presume i got it because i use the phrase several times in SAJA ROUNDUP: Tracking media coverage of WTC Attacks and Beyond > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 9:43:00 > From: > Subject: Fwd: Ground Zero Update > > Words are very powerful. They can paralyze a country or empower a people. The term, "Ground Zero" helped us to understand the magnitude of the damage at the WTC. Now our national leaders have asked us to try to get "back to normal" and the President officially ended the national period of mourning. > > Word associations for "Ground Zero" are 1) a site of a nuclear explosion, something you almost never heal from 2) a visual picture of the stock market crashing towards the ground or towards zero 3) complete annihilation, and so on. "Zero" should no longer be associated with the heart of commerce in America, the WTC. The term "Ground Zero" does not help to restore consumer confidence, does not comfort the children, and does not foster healing. > > The media can help to heal the wounds and help America to get back on its feet. I would like to suggest that we now refer to the WTC as the "Site of Remembrance and Renewal." Please help promote hope and healing for America. Please consider referring to this site as "formerly ground zero, now referred to as the Site of Remembrance and > Renewal." ------- > ----------end Forwarded message ---------- I present you with the winner of the "most stupid thing to be said about the WTC destruction" award. ------- Actually, this wasn't as awful as I had expected: I was thinking something like: let's turn the term "Ground Zero" into "Ground Hero" ..... ------- Ground Hero would be awful. I've been irritated by the whole "ground zero" thing because I think it's a sign of intellectual laziness. But the "Site of Remembrance and Renewal?" Pul-leeze. It is not. It is a site of immense destruction and murder. You can't undo annihilation. It's a one-way ticket. Something destroyed tends to stay that way. The whole email irritates me. Emailing a rep. of a journalists' group to exhort him to change his language, and pass it on? What is this, the telephone game version of groupthink? Her idiotic listing of the connotations of "ground zero" is indicative of an intelligence that does not surpass the average fern. I like that the 2nd "word association" for that terrible-unhealing-unpatriotic phrase is a "visual picture" of the stock market crashing. What a maroon. And I quote: "The term 'Ground Zero' does not help to restore consumer confidence, does not comfort the children, and does not foster healing." Um, neither does being BLOWN TO PIECES, ASSHOLE. BUT THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED. Painting it any other way is a lie. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. September 27, 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 Phrase 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 email348.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. 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. 2002-08-19 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 66.32.226.239