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 It has been a year since we watched two planes fly into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, stunning our minds and changing our lives. At the time, many of us asked why this had happened. A year later, judging from the news about our ""war on terrorism,"" it seems we still have not answered that question. For that answer we need to look, both within the United States, and at our relations with other countries of the world. Twenty years ago, for several years, I lived in Amman, Jordan. The people I knew in Jordan, despite their anger at our support of Israel, admired America and the American people. One of our close friends, a Jordanian who worked for Jordan's English language television network, said he did not understand why Americans, who had so much freedom and the power to influence their government's behavior seemed so uninterested in that government's foreign polices. I told him that Americans led busy lives, and that we depended on our news media to let us know what was going on in the world. If the media did not present both sides of an issue, most Americans did not know their was another side. He shrugged--such a waste of such freedom and power. We may not know much about the people of the Middle East, but our government's policies affect their day to day lives, and in some cases, their freedom or lack thereof. Our democracy within a Republic depends on well-informed citizens. We owe it to ourselves, to the founders of our Republic, and to the world that is so impacted by our behavior to find the answers we need, to make decisions based on a sense of justice and responsibility. 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 tp76.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