143 20 7169 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 September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: On a normal day my wife Karen and I drive down to work together to midtown Manhattan, that morning I had a doctors appointment and my wife traveled down by bus to Port Authority. I finished my appointment and headed down the Palisades Pkwy towards the George Washington Bridge as I approached the bridge I saw we were being detoured away from the bridge,I thought there was an automobile accident. I had also just put my radio on and heard that the first plane hit the Trade Center. After turning back towards home I heard the second plane hit and I knew we were under attack! Meanwhile my wife arrived into Port Authority not knowing anything was going on until a friend of hers told her. She was stuck in the city and I had no way of getting her out. Luckily a co-worker of hers had an apartment in the city and invited her to stay with her. My wife called me at home to tell me she was okay! My wifes co-workers apartment wasn't far from the Empire State Building and all night they heard sirens and smelled the smoke from the burning Towers. They kept hearing that the Empire State Building might also be a target and they were very scared as the apartment wasn't to far from there. After the 3rd day I was able to get back into the city and was able to be reunited with my wife. It was very upsetting to me everyday going to work and passing the city skyline,as I drove thru the Lincoln Tunnel and saw where the Towers once were standing there was only smoke. May we never go thru this horrible act of terrorism again, and may God Bless the souls of all who have perished. "God Bless America". 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 story4075.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. 2002-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 64.12.96.8 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 September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: When I found out what happened on September 11 I was in my school doing homework and then I heard that the Twin Towers were attacked by terrorists.As soon as i found out I got scared and wanted to go home.I was very sad for the people who died and angry at Osama Bin Laden Who caused the attack. i was thinking that i am glad to be alive and not in those buildings.But i felt sorry for those people who died there and all the Firefighters and Policeman who also died.All of those victims thst died were innocent and had nothing to do with the Millitary or any other things because they were jusy citizens.I am still scared of what might happen in the future and if there will be anymore theats or attacks. God Bless America!!! 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 story8080.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. 2002-09-23 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 209.175.105.14 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 September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: My husband and I arrived in Washinton DC on Monday morning(our first vacation in years). We took the Amtrac and got into Boston Monday evening. Went to Logan airport to rent a car and drove the few miles to our motel. We talked about all the things we hoped to see in Boston on Tuesday before we once again boarded Amtrac on Wednesday to head back home. The next morning the world had changed, forever. My husband said something is going on in New York - they are talking about it on his police scanner. We turned on the tv and sat in horror as the pictures and the devastation began. It was not possible to fatham the depth of the pain and suffering that was going on there. It felt like it was our neighbors who were parishing. And the date was 9-11. After the plane hit the White House I told my husband we needed to do something normal, like get dressed and find a restaurant. Everywhere we went the faces told the same story we felt. Just so much shock and disbelief. Our waitress could not understand why the restaurant was open. She felt everyone should be home trying to deal with this loss. We live 30-40 miles from Wright Patterson Airforce Base, located in Dayton, Ohio. I told my husband we had to get home because who knew what would happen next. Our best course would be to get inland and head North I needed to be with my babies - my 2 girls, ages 37 and 23 and the 5 grandchildren. If our personal world was going to end too, I had to be with my family. We tryed to call home but the lines were all out. I finally reached my sister at work and told her we were going to drive home and to call the kids and tell them we're okay and on our way. On the drive home it was very strange. There were no contrails in the sky, no planes, trains or public transportation. Everywhere we went, our gas attendants, waitresses and almost everyone we talked to, had some connection to the towers. They had a relative or knew someone who escaped or was missing. The closer we got to home the more frantic I felt. I was afraid something was going to happen before we could get there. I just needed to be with my babies. We finally walked in our house and my oldest daughter was here. I grabbed her and hugged her and cryed and cryed. I talked to or held all of them that evening. My family has always been important to me, but even more so after 9-11-01. 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 story8037.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. 2002-09-21 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 66.119.33.167 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 September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was sitting in the livingroom when my daughter brught her three year old son so she could go to work. We watched as the second plane hit in horror. My niece was in NY on business and I was terrified. Luckily, she was standing in a parking lot outside her hotel across the river and heard the first and actually saw the second plane hit. She finally managed to get a bus home on Friday. My three year old grandson said in his innocence, "Uncle Teddy, a fireman, needs to get his ropes and climb up and help them people climb down." At that moment, I knew, we as a country, had lost a precious part of ourselves, our innocence as a nation. We had been attacked on our own soil. God Beless America. 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 story4277.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. 2002-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 66.119.33.167 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 September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I don't think I will ever forget what happened to our family on September 11th, I first heard when I woke up later then usual (I didn't go to school that day) and my mother told me that the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York had just been hit by two airplanes as if that wasn't bad enough, I was about to hear that we had been hit closer to home. The most devastating aspect of September 11th was when I heard that a plane had gone through the window of the Pentagon. I went numb I couldn't cry at the moment I couldn't take it all in. My Uncle sometimes goes to the Pentagon for meetings as he is an airforce doctor. My family has always said that my uncle Tim was born under a lucky star. September 11th drove this point closer to home then ever. Every year without fail my Uncle always met in the same room in the pentagon. However, because my Uncle felt that the group was getting stagnet he chose to move the group to a different location. All of his collegues protested that it was an inconvenience, eventually though they all agreed. All of us my family and my Uncle's family didn't realize the significance of his decision to change his meeting place that month. It turns out that the plane went through the window of the room where my uncle would have been at that exact moment had he not made his simple decision to change his meeting room. I realize that my family was one of the lucky ones we didn't lose anyone. I just wish everyone else had been as lucky as we were. 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 story9498.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: Before I begin my story I would like to give thanks to all the people who lost their lives on this horrible day! I want to tell the family's of loved ones lost that day they will never be forgotten! God Bless the United States of America! I was leaving a meeting from work and just got on the highway headed to my first appointment of the day. I remember thinking what a beautiful day it was, so I opened my sunroof and turned on the raido. The radio announcers were yelling and saying oh my God-oh my God I could not make sense of what was going on, cars on the highway began to pull over and put their flashers on. A shaken radio announcer Mary Skanlin from Kc-101 sadly reported that the World Trade Center in New York City had been hit by a commerical airliner. I pulled over and picked up my cell phone and called my boyfriend, I wanted to know if he was listening to the radio to make sure I was understanding what I was hearing. Working fairly close to home, I raced there and turned on the Tv, thats when the second plane hit the second tower, I could not believe what I was seeing. I felt my heart sink into my stomach. I was in shock and tears welled up in my eyes, I immediatly called my boyfriend again and begged him to come home. The next broadcast come over the Tv, the Pentagon had been hit by another plane and now they feard more hijacked planes were out there. I thought to myself, this is it, we are under full attack and my heart pounded anticipating the next hit. The intensity in the air was unbearable. Then all hell broke loose, the the first tower collasped. As it fell, to watch all those people running for saftey from smoke and debries was too much to watch. I buried my face into a pillow and sobbed, felling so scard and helpless. My boyfriend, Billy arrived home, he was also in shock as he listed to the radio on him drive home. It wasn't until he seen the visual on Tv that he began to cry. We held each other tight and then the next broadcast, another plane crashed in Pennsylvaina, and then the second tower collasped. We felt completely helpless and scared. I called my parents, my brother and my sister, I needed to hear there voices. Then Billy and I decided to walk down to the church at the end of our street. They were just letting the kids out of school, there were allot of parents around scrambeling to pick up their children. Everyone had the same look on there faces...shock, fear and overwhelming saddess. We walked into church and the sound of people crying and praying still gives me goose bumps. For us, it was the only place that we felt we needed to be. Even now just thinking about these horrible acts of terror stirs up the exact same feelings I felt that day. I don't think I will ever completely recover from that feeling of sorrow and loss even though I did not personally know anyone who perished in the attacts, I feel stangely close to them and I think I always will. 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 story8105.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: When I heard what had happened I was shocked. I had just gotten back from NYC on September 10th. I visited the WTC on Sept. 10th and my hotel was only 3 blocks from it. It really hits home when you are so close to a situation like that. September 11th will always be a day I will definately remember for the rest of my life. 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 story9512.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. 2003-09-09 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 155.91.6.72 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 September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I want to start by say I feel for all who have lost loved ones in that tragedy. Well, all my life has been spent in New York City, I am a black male and have been from the foster care system to the welfare system to struggling with employment to being homeless because of no employment. I just got fed up! At 42 years of age I needed a change in my life and being in New York and have tried it all there was no way I was staying any longer. I got into a new relationship and had my first baby girl, Kiara, she is so beautiful not to mention she looks like her daddy. My patients had run out. I took my family and moved to Newark as a temperary stay until our next move. After a year we decided on moving to Charlotte. Well, I was the first to go and when I got everything together the rest of the family will come down. OK, I had a little trouble leaving and so I made a determination that I will leave on my birthday hook or crook so I pawned my camera and borrowed a few dollars and boarded the greyhound on September 7th. My employer was supposed to transfer me to that state and I was trying to change my Army Reserve Unit to Charlotte after 18 years of New York National Guard and Army Reserve. I was on the public phone in Charlotte trying to talk to my employer in NY on September 11 at 8am and they told me to call back. On the way back to my cousins apartment someone on the street said a plane hit the World Trade Center! I thought about a small plane may have strayed and hit it or something not to bad. I went and turned on the Television and I thought this is not real! Then I sat down and screamed OH MY GOD! about 10 times. Then the second plane hit I could not contain myself with swearing that we are at war! I felt helpless and then my fiance and children are there. Then the Towers fell. I cried for about an hour alone with the TV. I worked in the Towers and traveled everyday from NJ day and night through the Towers. The day I left NY was from the NJ Path. My employer location was on 6th Avenue and 51st Street. My Reserve unit was the Combat Support Hospital at FT. Hamilton. I immediatly wanted to go back to help, when I called my family they told me to stay where I am so they can move. I stayed. At this time I can't watch anything involving the Trade Center tragedy without a tear. 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 story1325.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. 2002-08-20 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 12.20.14.2 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 September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I heard the first reports by accident while flipping the dial and landing on Howard Stern. I came into the office and turned on the radio because there had been a plane crash in New York. We all listened in horror as the second plane was reported. Several factors will always make that day unforgettable on many levels for me. First of all, I was three months pregnant and I was so worried for the unborn baby in me - what kind of world would my baby know? Secondly, I truly believed we were under attack and that this was the beginning of WWIII. Thirdly, we had a college-age intern in our office from Germany, she was terrified and didn't know if she would be immediately deported, or if she would be allowed to return home or not. I've written an account of that day in my daughter's baby book and saved the Sept. 12th newspaper for her. My hope is that she will never fear like I did that day and every day since. 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 story6611.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. 2002-09-12 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 64.5.161.104 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 September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I had just returned from my annual leave from Europe and was getting back to my business environment with full throttle--after one month of absence my desk was full and a major upcoming event on the 12th had to be prepared. So I started my work on Monday 10 with all the energy I had. I gathered with my team to see whether all preparations had gone according to schedule and after i realized that everything was on time I entered into the final dialogue with our Chinese business partners for a final briefing, since they were a part of the big meeting we were preparing for the 12th. And as it goes in China, I had to invite them for dinner on the 11th. The atmosphere was very pleasant that evening especially because everybody felt that both, we as well as the Chinese had done all to their best to make the meeting a success. So we decided to continue our evening and move on to a karaoke bar. I usually avoid these places mainly because it does not really reflect my attitude towards good entertainment and also for a simple reason: they usually don't have enough english songs for me, which makes me feel bored. But I decided to sponsor that part of the evening also, so I had to go and "give face" to my Chinese friends. One chinese song after the other appeared on screen but mine was still not coming and I decided to leave after the the one I had chosen--it was Frank Sinatra's "My Way". After almost one hour of waiting in that bar I could see that my song would be soon on-screen so I took over the microphone from a colleague who had just finished his song. I do not remember the exact time but it must have been between 2030 and 2100 hours local time, which is +12 hrs to New York time. Just at the very moment I wanted to start singing my mobile phone rang and I was quite annoyed. But I picked it up and was telling to my good friend that I have no time now 'cause I was in the middle of a song. He insisted and asked me whether I heard the news about a plane accident at the WTC--appearantly that was plane number one and nobody really believed it might have been a terror strike at that moment. I was very short with my comments and told him to call me later, I would be busy right now....So I sang my Sinatra song I had been waiting for! Time passed by, a second call comes in-this time from a friend in Shanghai. She was telling me about a second plane that hit the WTC. Her voice was trembling. That was the time when I asked my Chinese friends to switch from the karakoe video channel to national TV... CCTV1 was broadcasting the live pictures coming from CNN. I was looking once, twice and I looked back to the rest of the audience in the room and we thought we were in the movies. It was a mixture of disbelief and horror that shook us. The Chinese were sort of smiling, which was a clear signal to me that they were not able to cope with the situation so we quickly turned the TV back to video. I packed my things and rushed back to my hotel and was watching the catastrophe over and over again until i finally slept from fatigue.... One year later I still feel horrified about the idea this could happen to anybody, in any city, at any time and I hope our civilizations are andvanced and mature enough to cope with the imminent threat of terror. With my deepest respect to the mourning and equally courageous citizens of NY. Anastasios Goudoulakis 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 story5631.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. 2002-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 61.145.144.146 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 September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: My father is an Independent Duty Corpsman in the Navy, and was based at the navy annex about 100 yards west of the pentagon. When the plane came in to hit the pentagon, he was watching on the news for information on the World Trade Center attacks. As soon as the plane passed by, he was on his way down to the pentagon. The Navy Annex clinic was the first group to set up triage for the disaster. as people came in, My dad was the first to treat them. I was en route to my 5th period classwhen I heard something was wrong. I had a headache, so I stopped by the clinic in the building for some Motrin. while I was listening to the radio, I heard something about shutting down the government buildings in richmond, and I concluded that there was a bombing down there. It wasn't until I got into 5th period that I found out that the World trade enter and the Pentagon had been atcked with commercial aircraft. I didn't see my dad until about 11:30 that night, and that was only long enough for him to say, "hi, I'm leaving for New York, and I don't know when I'll be back". We didn't see him for another week. He was on The UHS Comfort aiding in the recovery efforts at the world trade center. HE recived the bronze star for his work on that day. I recieved two weeks of school lockdown and another week of terror. 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 story10426.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. 2004-02-08 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 68.69.98.47 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 September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was in 10grade in high school, an i was in my 2nd period Mr Ingram's class *Ag Science*. But i didnt find out till i got to my there period Coach Shamblin's class "World Geography* I got to my class an the news was on. We all sat in our seats an the teacher said we didnt have to do work 2day. And told us what had happend for sum of us who didnt know at the moment. We all sat there an watched the towers go down juss in sec's. It was so horrable. We watched sum the stories ppl was saying, about how they lost there loved ones in there it was so sad half room was in shock an tears. We couldnt believe our eyes. An everyday in high school on September 11th from that moment on we did special things. like Made an american flag outta the whole school *Seniors 12thgrade* wore navy blue shirts, *Juniors 11th grade* wore red shirts, *Sophmores10th grade* was split with red, white ab blue shirts, an *Freshmens 9th grade* wore white shirts. The school put it in news paper for our paryers an rememberance of 9-11. My Prayers go out to all them & the troops. GOD BELSS! 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 story11766.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: It was made known to me of the incedent on 9/11 from my HOA teacher Mrs. Berzins. I wasn't quite sure how things were going to happen that day, and all of my friends and I were debating what wraith the US would retaliate with on whoever did that. It's still hard to picture everything that happened. . . But the thing is that it hardly effected me personaly because noone I know was really effected by it, but it did hit me like it hit the nation. I feel that retaliation is necessary, but haste will be our enemy in bombing efforts, for I'm a Catholic and I feel that no innocent's should be hit, however I do trust the military forces we have to hit the correct targets. God Bless America-- I send my prayers and condolences to any who lost a love one on 9/11, Alan Shingler, Jr. 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 story8099.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: when i woke up that morning it started just like any other day, but the whole world changed in the amount of time it took me to take a shower. it was like something i had never felt before. i wasn't scared and i wasn't exactly shocked either. it was strange. the events that happened that day haven't really had a strong impact on me. i didnt know anyone directly involved with the events. the on thing that had an emotional impact on me was all the children who lost their mothers or fathers that day. my dad died when i was two months old and i have had to grow up with only the memories of the people who knew him well. im seventeen now and i have just started to realize that he has been the missing piece in my life and that has had an impact on the kind of person i am. I feel i can relate to these children and i know that if they are raised in a good home and with the memories of their lost parents, they will turn out to be just fine. i wish them well. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: My son, who is 14 years old, wrote the following poem. It b rought many a tear to those who have read it. Our Heroes. We cannot change what has already happened, We can only look forward to the future and grab it. Make the wrong turns into right, Let the day turn into night. Sleep.... so peacefully, dreaming away, Then hope that you'll come back someday. While we dream, there are people dying, While you dream, children are crying. And thats why we fight over seas, So people here can sleep with ease. David Battiste 14 y/o. Dekalb, Illinois. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was home with my husband and daughter, getting her ready for Kindergarten. My sister called and said put on the local cable news station, that one of the towers had an explosion. It was so new, that no one knew it was a plane yet. I can still feel how I felt about those dead already and those on the upper floors. Then people started calling in, saying it was a plane. But nothing was confirmed yet. As we watched the TV, we saw the 2nd plane hit the second tower. We knew there was something terribly wrong. Never in the history of NY, had even 1 plane ever hit a building in the city. My husband wanted to keep our daughter home, but I wanted to keep things semi normal even though this event would change NY and America forever. As we continued to watch the TV stations, we also listened to our police scanner. Once my husband heard a call dispatched to a patrol car, that a school was contacted by phone, that the children should not be out a lunch time today, the decision was made. If we were under attack, our child would be with us. We pulled her out of school as so many other parents did the same. We found out my husband's cousin was safe that day. He was off from work. Twice he has escaped from terrorism in the World Trade Center, since he was there for the garage bombing, as well. His fellow workers did not make it then. In the days that passed, I could not keep my daughter away from the news. At night I would change the TV station to one of her channels and the next day, I would hear the news. I told her, "Just watch your station, Honey." And she would reply,"I want to watch the Twin Towers, Mommy." Eventually, it caught up with her and she wouldn't go to bed by herself. I finally told her that all the bad people were caught and she said, "Even the ones under the sand?" We had never spoken about Bin Laden or the deserts. She learned this from the TV. I told her, "even the ones under the sand." She has gotten better, but she is still not 100%. For the 1 year anniversary, I kept the TV off. I knew the school would touch on it slightly and I would speak with her afterwards. She was okay that day. But she has decided on her own to make a book as a tribute to that fateful day. I have saved her drawing from last year of the Towers burning and will keep all these things together. Life is truly not the same since these attacks, but I believe the worst thing we could do, is stay at home and be afraid. Watching the TV, that day, was like watching a scene from a movie, with all the smoke surrounding the city. But we will not give the terrorists completely what they want. We cherish our freedom. Not a day goes by that I don't think of that horrible day. I thank God that no one I knew personally perished, but I do have friends who did have someone perish. I continue to go to the baseball games and basketball games. And when I sit in Madison Square Garden or ride the trains and subways, I do often wonder if we'll be under attack again. But life goes on, and for the sake of those innocent people who perished that day, I need to live for them. God Bless America!!! 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 story7048.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: The morning of September 11th was a typical school day. We were in English class when our teacher told us that he heard that a plan had flown into the TwinTowers. I don't think I had ever really heard much about the TwinTowers before this, so I had to ask where they were. My teacher said that the TwinTowers in New York had been hit. About 1 or 2 hours later, we heard that they had collapsed and that thousands were either trapped or killed. We all watched the news during our gym class and were in a somber state. There was no joking and no laughing. We all felt sad for all who had family that were in the Towers. Truthfully, I was a little scared because I was afraid that something might happen close to our area. Then something did happen. A plane was flown into the Pentagon and a plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. That was a little too close to home. I was scared but I knew that I could trust in the Lord for protection. 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 story9532.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: It was 1st period, a "B" day. I had biology that day and my biology teacher told the whole class that New York, Washington, and a rural area in Pennsylvania was attacked. That day, I was worried because I have relatives in Brooklyn. I called them and they said they are okay. When I got home from school, the September 11th, 2001 or 9/11 as everybody calls it was all over the news. I felt bad for those people that died on the plane who were supposed to head to their designated cities, And those people that died in the World Trade Center who didn't have time to get out of the building when one plane hit hit in the south tower and another in the north tower. I just wish that the attacks never happend, thanks to the terrorists....America will never be the same ever again. 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 story11243.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: As any other day i was just getting breakfast . Had my other children off on the school bus.As me and my youngest daughter are eating breakfast i flip on the tv and to my surprise the first tower was hit . At this time i do not know what is going on i sat there in surprise . As the events unflod i am still in disbelief as i think we all were. i decide to call my mom who works second shift as i knew she would be in bed and not know anything about it . as i talk to her and watch my daughter asks who is turning 4 on september 13th why is there a plane in the buiding ? how do you awnser something like that to a 4 year old that we teach love and respect and peace to ? it was a very hard time as a mother . as the day goes on my husband is calling who is at work and had just went on lunch and happened to turn the radio on and heard a little what was going on . i told him what we knew so far everyone was so surprised . my other chilldren arrived home that afternoon from school . my oldest who is a boy and in 1st grade was able to watch on tv what had happened . He had so many questions why did the planes fly in the buildings and why are all those people dead you see my son is very intelegent he understood i think more then i did .he realized those people did not survive . for the weeks to come everytime we drove anywhere he would count the american flags hanging on houses . it was a hard decision to let my children watch the tv . usually you try to keep them from violence and sadness but i felt they needed to see what happens when there are bad people that do such horrible things . as for today one year later my youngest turns 5 she does not remember my son still asks questions about it . today they go to school in red,white,and blue !!! god bless america and all that have lost someone special in there lives . and bless us all for we have all been hurt and sadened and will never forget .this is the land of the free and the home of the brave and i think everyone has proved how brave we all our. my prayers our with everyone !!! united we stand !!!!!! 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was a senior in high school. I got up that morning, as I had every morning, without any idea that something had happened. I got dressed for school, watching SportsCenter on ESPN. There was nothing about the attacks on ESPN, so I had no idea that anything was wrong. I went to school that morning, listening to a CD in my truck. Once again, I had no idea that anything was wrong. I was sitting in my first period class, when my teacher came running into the room, mumbling something about the World Trade Center and a plane crash. She was hard to understand, but she turned the radio on in the class. That was the first time all day that I had heard anything about the attacks. Then, everyone thought that the crash was just an accident. My teacher was in charge of taking pictures for the yearbook in my school's lunch room, so our class went into the lunch room for the rest of the period. Not 10 minutes after we got into the lunch room, another teacher came running into the room screaming "Another plane has just crashed into tower 2 of the World Trade Center. We are under attack." That is when I realized that our country would never be the same again. All day long, my teachers tried to give us work to do but no work was ever done. Every classroom was clued to a tv or a radio. That afternoon, all planes were grounded. Normally, a few planes flew over our practice football field. On that day no planes flew over, giving off a very strange and odd silence. One small plane flew over our field and within a few minutes, U.S. Air Force Jet planes were escorting the small plane back to the ground. I got home that afternoon and was told by my dad to go and fill my truck up with gas, seeing as how no one had a clue as to exactly what was going to happen. All the way to the gas station, I kept looking into the sky scared to death and wondering if we would see anything like that again. At the gas station, I spent 45 minutes trying to get to a gas pump. Within those 45 minutes, the gas prices went from 1.59 a gallon to 2.10 a gallon. It was the most absurb thing I've ever seen. Thank God a cop was there and forced the station owner to bring the prices back down. All day long I felt that everything that had happened was just a big horrible dream and that I was going to wake up. Sometimes now, I still wonder if it all is just a dream and that I will wake up to find that September 11th never took place. All I can say now is "God Bless America." 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