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 The very first time I went to the World Trade Centers was on a thunderstormy afternoon. The towers rose into swirly clouds like beanstalks climbing to strange heavens. I loved looking up at the buildings measured in miles, not feet. Then, a few years later, we went into the World Trade Center 1 to bring my daughter to a friends' office on the 17th floor. We passed security and got photo IDs, and were quite thrilled. I felt mildly nervous as we rode up the elevator, and laughed at myself, for thinking anything would ever happen. Or would happen there of all places, for after all, lightening never strikes twice. Lightening has hit the Empire State Building more than 15 times in 15 minutes. Suddenly everything I had told my children was wrong ( being children, of course, they always knew that). I had said no one would attack the US mainland, that it was a nonsensical idea, nothing rational could be achieved by doing so. I woke up Sept 12 not remembering and then, when full consciousness came back, I thought I could never feel safe again, that the world was irrevocably different. In that, I was also wrong. We go by the broken bridges not thinking about what happened any more. We grumble about having to fight the solemn crowds around the WTC site to get to our subway station. But sometimes I remember waiting for my son to get home from evacuating his school four blocks north of the towers collapsing into movie clouds of dust and it's hard not to cry. 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 tp184.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. 2003-03-03