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A 3 page paper which examines how a visit to the Jimmy Carter Museum and Library’s exhibit of 9/11 memorabilia could be seen as reflective of other historical events such as the Civil War. The focus of the paper is on letters and quilts. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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the emotions and the lives lost will always be remembered in different ways. The fact that museums are already creating displays and exhibits that depict what the attacks meant to
people, and also demonstrate how people dealt with the attacks, indicates that it was a powerful, one of the most powerful, events in this countrys history. It was, however, not
the only powerful event which led people to save letters, write letters, and design quilts in order to cope with the disasters. The following paper provides a way in which
a student, viewing the Jimmy Carter Museum and Librarys 9/11 exhibit could relate the 9/11 exhibit to memorabilia from the Civil War, primarily letters and quilts. 9/11 and the
Civil War What makes 9/11 so different from the Civil War, when we speak of history, is that 9/11 happened in one day. It was not a war that people
could prepare for and it was not a war that people could pray would end. By the time 9/11 began it was over for those who died. But, for those
left behind there needed to be a way in which they could more adequately deal with the suddenness of the event. As such they wrote letters to loved ones who
had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defined a tragedy and helped people cope.
During the Civil War many men in battle wrote letters to help them feel that they were alive and had a reason to fight. They wrote letters to their wives
and their wives wrote letters back. Family members wrote to one another as a means of keeping their mental state together and helping put, somehow, words to what was happening.
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