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 AFTER THE TOWERS MELTED It may have been blasphemous, even cruel, but someone wrote poetry after The Great Plague. Others wrote in the midst of it, dying. It was written in the trenches in France. Scott wrote it at the South Pole. During the Chicago Fire, The Blitz, somewhere in the cellars of Dresden, on the tilted deck of the Titanic, someone scribbled a last thought, held tight to a burning image. As we do, the two nameless strangers leaping eighty floors hand in hand. Hiroshima did not escape this blight of perception, nor did Rwanda. The ovens at Birkenau were rank with it. Everywhere great suffering reaches into our lives, poetry arrives. With its wan smile and rumpled clothes, its useless gestures. Which it knows to be useless. Like a drooling old grandmother, like a crow in the middle of the road, it tells us what we already know. Nothing surpasses the afternoon. Or the wind urging these clumsy branches toward the future, wherever that is. 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 tp23.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. 2003-02-24