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Sep
11

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Reflection on Patriot Day 2024 and the Healing Impact of Art

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Reflection on Patriot Day, 2024 and the Healing Impact of Artwork

“The most important factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows.” ~Dr. David Ausubel

 Diaries, Journals, notes, and transcripts are linguistic artifacts of reflection.  These archival artifacts help us to retrace our thoughts and actions (Button, 2023).  Diaries, Journals, notes, and transcripts are linguistic artifacts of reflection.  These archival artifacts help us to retrace our thoughts and actions (Button, 2023).

Artwork in all media formats is another pivotal act of reflection.  “In times of emotional unrest, children often express themselves through art,” (9/11 Museum, 2023). There were 72 million children, most who experienced indirectly the events and trauma of September 11, 2001 (Del Rosario, 2021).

Hope Buzzelli, who was born just two months after September 11, 2001, is the daughter of Pasquale Buzzelli, the structural engineer who was found alive on top of the rubble and ashes of the fallen Twin Towers (Hasson, 2017; History Channel, 2021). Pasquale Buzzelli was trapped inside the north tower of the World Trade Centre as it collapsed, and he fell 18 floors to the ground and was rescued alive and barely injured (60 Minutes Australia, 2021).

Hope, like so many of the children who survived and observed expressed her emotions, memories, and thoughts through art. Today, as a young adult, Buzzelli’s artwork is her emotive outpouring and her vocation as an artist in New York. She still paints wearing the sweatshirt from Ladder 20 FDNY.

Creating and representing events, thoughts, and recollections through artwork is an important expressive and psychological benefit (Malchiodi, 2003; 2018; 2020. Visual renderings stimulate two to three times as much narrative than just talking alone (Gross & Haynes, 1998). A visual collection of 75 renderings by children ages five to eighteen was the result of a collaboration by the New York University Child Study Center and the Museum of the City of New York.  In 2002, this artwork was collected in the book “The Day Our World Changed” by Harry Abrams. The Day Our World Changed is on sale through traditional booksellers. This book is also available for reading without charge at the Open Library, a section of the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/dayourworldchang00good/page/38/mode/2up?view=theater

For Personal Reflection- only if appropriate and not trauma-inducing for you: Please take a few moments or many minutes to digitally click through the page of artwork contained in the online book, The Day Our World Changed.

 

 

                                                                         References

60 Minutes Australia (2021). 9/11 survivor remembers the horrific terror attacks 20 years later | 60 Minutes Australia. [Video File.]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRpzOaFmUQM

Abrams, H. (2002).  The day our world changed. Open Library. https://archive.org/details/dayourworldchang00good/page/38/mode/2up?view=theater

Ausubel, D. P. (1968). Educational psychology: A cognitive view. Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

Del Rosario, A. (2021). History Channel Sets 9/11 20th Anniversary Programming Slate With Four Documentaries. Deadline. https://deadline.com/2021/08/history-channel-9-11-20th-anniversary-programming-slate-four-documentaries-1234816409/

Gross, J., & Hayne, H. (1998). Drawing facilitates children’s verbal reports of emotionally laden events. Journal of experimental psychology: applied, 4(2), 163. https://doi.org/10.1037/1076-898X.4.2.163

Hassan, S. (2017). And then there was Hope. The Valley Echo. https://pvhsecho.com/and-then-there-was-hope/

History Channel (2021). 9/11: The Legacy.

Luke Button Blog, (2023, May 22). 4 Strategies To Remember An Idea That You Forgot.  https://www.lukebutton.co/blog/how-to-remember-ideas

Malchiodi, C. (2021). What We Learned from Children’s Drawings of 9/11. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/arts-and-health/202109/what-we-learned-children-s-drawings-911

Malchiodi, C. (2020). Trauma and expressive arts therapy: Brain, body, and imagination in the healing process. New York: Guilford Press.

Malchiodi, C. (2014). Neurobiology, creative interventions and childhood trauma. In C. Malchiodi, (Ed.), Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children (pp. 3- 23). New York: Guilford Press.

Malchiodi, C. (2003). Art therapy and the brain. In C. Malchiodi (ed.), Handbook of Art Therapy (pp. 17-26). New York: Guilford Press.

 

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Aug
2

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Weekend Ed. Quote ~ August 2

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“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
~Theodore, (Teddy) Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States (1901- 1909)

Theodore Roosevelt Quote about Effort

 

More Weekend Ed. Quotes

References

Roosevelt, T. (1900). The strenuous life; essays and addresses. The Century Co.

Audio Recording: LibriVox:  https://archive.org/details/strenuous_life_1110_librivox/strenuouslife_01_roosevelt.mp3
Also available from Google Books
Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/00005559

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Weekend Ed. Quote ~ June 7

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“History teaches a working understanding of change. History helps us better understand how, when, and why change occurs (or should be sought) on a larger scale.” ~Trish Thomas, Williamsburg

History Terms Word Cloud

 

 

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Jun
6

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D-Day 1944 President Franklin Roosevelt and the New Media of Radio

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D-Day 1944 President Franklin Roosevelt and the New Media of Radio

Posting in observance of the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the storming of the beaches at Normandy, June 6, 1944.

A frequent educational focus addresses New Media and its uses in the classroom. 

On June 6, 1944, the New Media of that time was radio. Radio connected Americans to news of World War II. Radio was a common media used by the 32nd U.S. President Roosevelt. President Roosevelt’s talks and radio addresses were known as “Fireside Chats.”  The Fireside Chat series of evening radio addresses were given by Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944. His final Fireside Chat occurred on June 11, 1944 just a few days after the D-Day battle.

In a radio broadcast, President Roosevelt used his time on radio to pray. He read a National Prayer to 100 million Americans on the evening of the D-Day invasion of Normandy. 

See also the print resource posted on the History.com website: https://www.history.com/speeches/franklin-d-roosevelt-delivers-d-day-prayer 

Questions for this optional classroom discussion…

  1. Why was the radio such an effective communication tool in the 1930s and 1940s? What would be a comparable method of communication today?
  2. How do you think FDR’s radio presence affected the public’s perception of U.S. entry into World War II? 
  3. Why do you think it would have been reassuring to hear a president’s words of prayer over the radio? 
  4. Can you imagine this kind of address happening today? Please Explain.

     Thank you for considering the bravery, and sacrifice of the heroes on D-Day and the way that the New Media of that period helped Americans to feel reassured and hopeful. 

 

 

                                                                  References

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Presidential Library and Museum (2009). Fireside Chats Of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
     Marist College http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/firesi90.html

History.com (2024). Franklin D. Roosevelt Delivers D-Day Prayer.
https://www.history.com/speeches/franklin-d-roosevelt-delivers-d-day-prayer

The National World War 2 Museum (2024, June 6). Franklin D. Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer, June 6, 1944. [VideoFile.]      YouTube. https://youtu.be/_dl6Gpa6QYM?feature=shared

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May
27

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Memorial Day Weekend ~ Monday

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red Poppy in cemetery

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/john-mccrae-in-flanders-fields.htm   

In Flanders Fields

by John McCrae, May 1915

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

American Legion Family - National Poppy Day

 

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May
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Memorial Day Weekend ~ Saturday

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The Significance of Red Poppies to Honor Those Who Gave The Ultimate Sacrifice

Red Poppies Graphics FairyRed poppies have been a symbol of the aftermath of battles. The pairing of Red poppies and mourning for soldiers’ sacrifice has been linked to the Napoleonic war when red poppies (Palaver rhoeas), would be observed growing over soldiers’ graves.
Professor Michael was professor at the University of Georgia at the time the war broke out, yet she took a leave of absence to volunteer at the New York headquarters of the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA). Two days before the armistice, Professor Moina Michael read the poem “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae. The poem was published in the magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal.
Inspired by John McCrae’s poetic verses, in 1918, Professor Michael wrote her own poem in response, which she titled “We Shall Keep Faith.”

We Shall Keep the Faith
by Moina Michael, November 1918

Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet – to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.

We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
Of the flower that blooms above the dead
In Flanders Fields.

And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
We’ll teach the lesson that ye wrought
In Flanders Fields.

silk red poppies
Professor Michael gave fabric blooms to her academic colleagues to wear in remembrance of soldiers.  After the war ended, Professor Michael returned to the university town of Athens, Georgia, and thought about the best way to continue her practice of remembrance.
She began to craft and sell red silk poppies to raise money to support war veterans as they returned to the United States.
Over time, Professor Michael organized a campaign to create a national symbol for remembrance which would be a poppy in the colors of the Allied nations’ flags entwined around a victory torch. At the beginning of 1920, she secured a pledge from Georgia’s branch of the American Legion, to adopt the poppy (minus the torch) as its symbol.
In September, 1920, the National American Legion voted to use the poppy as the official U.S. National emblem of remembrance.
American Legion Family - National Poppy Day

                                                                 References
Pruitt, S. (2017). The WWI origins of the poppy as a remembrance symbol. History.com.
   https://www.history.com/news/world-war-i-poppy-remembrance-symbol-veterans-day

National American Legion (2021). The Poppy Story. https://www.legion.org/poppyday/history

Dec
7

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Remembering Pearl Harbor Today

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In pictures: The attack on Pearl Harbor (CNN)

 

President Roosevelt Speech — ‘A date which will live in infamy’… (You Tube)

 

Tulsi Gabbard Walking to Pearl Harbor in Memorium

https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1600449110884044801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1600449110884044801%7Ctwgr%5Ec481b92f4e3482fa6c8fcd23db853171a308b464%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitizenfreepress.com%2Fbreaking%2Ffdr-speech-a-date-which-will-live-in-infamy%2F

 

Additional items posted throughout today.

 

Hawaii remembrance to draws Pearl Harbor survivors

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