200 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: I am an over the road truck driver. The morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was sleeping in my unit at our terminal when I was awakened by a message on my computer. It was my daughter wanting to know where I was at. I was in the New York area a few days before and she wanted to make sure I was ok. I turned on my T.V. and saw what was happening. The second plane was just hitting the tower. I just sat there stunned,trying to comprehend what was happening. I didn't have to leave any time soon so,I just watched as it all unfolded. I sent my daughter a message that I was alright. My wife called me with the same questions. I assured her I was fine. One of my brothers,who is also a truck driver,called asking where I was and if I was ok. I just spent most of the day watching the news,wondering who,what and why,like most of the country was I suppose. I was on Long Island the night they turned on the search lights. As I went back to New Jersey around 20:30 hours,it was quite a sight to see them! I cannot imagine what was going through the minds of all the people. All I could do was pray for them. 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 story8047.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. 66.112.36.195 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 Grandmothers funeral was the day before. I was in Kingston Ny with my family getting over the shock of losing the most important person in my life.And then the phone rang and the world was swept from under my feet. " erika turn on the television", said my uncle. "DO YOU SEE WHATS HAPPENING? They crashed a plane into the world trade center!" I immediately turned on the t.v. and saw the world trade center on fire. And just as mind grasped what had just happened it happened again. Only this time right in front of my face. The second plane seemed to come out of no where and slam into the second tower. That was the final nail in the coffin formerly known as the world trade center. It seemed to me that the sky itself was falling. The pentagon was destroyed, the world trade centers gone, and a plane filled with heros fell from the sky saving the lives of the intended victims of the terroist the were aboard. What was happening to the country? WHAT would happen to me? What would happen to my brother who was is the army? All of these questions and not one person who could give me any answers. Why us? Why now? How could this happened? It is now a year later and some of those questions still remain. Has anything changed? Yeah some of it has. We wait longer to get on planes, and we are now prepared to shoot the planes down if we have to. But has the core of this problem changed? Has the U.S. done anything to diminsh the hate these people feel for us? 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 story3674.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: How did you witness history on September 11th? Share your experience. I first heard of the attack was when a customer came into the store and told us. I was with my co-worker, Janet, and we thought someone had made a mistake. Another customer came in and told us the second tower had been hit. I was shocked. I was dying for information. I wished I had a T.V. I turned on the radio in the store, searching for news and explanations. Everything was so sketchy and confused. No one really seemed to know what had happened at first. Then it came the report of the Pentagon being hit. I felt like I was living through the begining, the very first moments of world war three. And all I could do was listen to the radio. Has your life changed because of September 11, 2001? If so, tell us how. Yes I worry more about the safety and security of my family and my country. I wonder how this could have happened and wonder if they are doing enough to prevent this from ever happening again. the security I've taken for granted in the United States has been shaken. I really have to wonder what kind of people are capable of such misdirection that they can feel justified in what they did. What do you think should be remembered about september 11th? The tremendous loss of life. The every day heroes. Those that marched into the face of death to help others. That we should never take our country and our freedoms and our blessings for granted. Did you fly a flag after the events of September 11th? Have your feelings about the American flag changed as a result of September 11th? Yes! I've flown a flag ever since, and have one on my car. Yes and no. I've always had a flag and been proud of it, but now I don't save it for national holidays. I'm proud to fly it everyday and I've always said "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 story8814.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: September 10, I sat in my high school's AP Psychology class. I had been feeling sick for the entire day, and decided later in the day to call my mom and go home. She came and picked me up. The next morning, September 11, I woke up at 6:30. Still feeling sick, my mom called the school to tell them I would be staying at home. At 8:50 that morning, I was still asleep. My mom came in and woke me up, saying a plane had hit the WTC. I had expected it to be a small private plane or something. I went downstairs to watch, and was immediately shocked. Suddenly, another fireball shot out of the WTC, as the second plane hit. This image will forever be set in my memory. My mom immediately grabbed the phone, to call everyone she knew. Within a half-hour, they cut to a shot of the Pentagon, with smoke billowing up. For the rest of the day, wild rumors were heard everywhere-- a car bomb at the state department, vans of illegal immigrants with explosives being stopped, bomb threats to buildings all over America, a plane being guided to the ground by the RCAF in Canada. I had never been this scared in my entire life. They say that there is an event for every generation that changes their view of the world forever. For my parents, it was the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK. For their parents, it was Pearl Harbor. For their parents, the Great Depression, and for their parents, World War 1. For my generation, it was said to be the fall of the Berlin Wall. Then the first WTC bombing, then the OKC bombing, then finally Columbine. After witnessing these events, it is obvious that this is the event that changes out world. 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 story793.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: Well this is a poem that I wrote about 9/11 called "Guardians". Once there were two guardians that once stood tall. They stood side by side and had never left each others side. They had watched us every day from above. Then One day, the guardians that once stood tall had fallen to the ground. We watched from below as they had fallen. One had fallen, and then the other followed. As we discovered that one could not live without the other. We ran. We cried. Others had decided to hide. But we all could not believe our eyes. We watched in disbelieve as we saw are guardians die. At that moment we had asked ourselves why? Who is to blame for this? No one had known. Ordinary man became heroes that day, saving those that our guardians protected. Yet some heroes did not make it that day. For they sacrificed their lives for other. Making them true heroes, making them angel or even guardians as those that had fallen that day. Those heroes had been buried together with our guardians that day will never be forgotten. For they had never truly died because they live in our hearts and live in our minds. For their acts of heroism can never be erased from history, Let alone the memory of those that they help to safety. We wait for that day when they will be together again, waiting to be guardians to a city of heroes that will be built 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 story8887.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. 2002-12-27 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 24.91.128.61 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: This horrific situation saddens me for so many lives have been lost. I feel so sorry for all the families that have lost their loved ones. Things will never ever ever be the same! Relationships have been destroyed by such an evil force. I believe that, it will take forever to heal a broken heart. Something that is so devasting to comprehend makes you wonder why such terroristic acts of violence exist. Especially when you have known someone in your life for years, it has such an impact on your mind. A mother, a father, a daughter, a son, uncle, aunt, cousins, comprise not just immediate families but also extended families -- have special relationships that will last an entire lifetime. However, there are no words that can express my deepest sympathy for all the families out there that have lost a family member in this terrible tragedy. Trying to locate my cousin Angela was very hard for me to take because no one in my family knew where she was. She works for Columbia Records in New York City but lives in New Jersey. Later,by 4pm, my cousins from Quincy finally heard from her; she was safe. Thank God! I was absolutely devastated when I was told fellow co-workers from TJX were killed! Though I work at HomeGoods (owned by TJX, Inc.), it really it me hard because my fellow co-worker lost her father John Corcoran. There are people that I have worked with: in the Hingham 4th July committee, John Barbuto, his niece Christine lost her life. My friend Nicha Sabbag last told me that her father was missing...I haven't heard any news since. When I contributed to the 911 Fund where I work in a government building, I happened to meet a firefighter in the lobby who just returned from Ground Zero. All I could do was hug him....He was my hero! I wanted to express my deepest gratitude for all the hard work to save lives. It meant so much to me. I have been to New York City, Manhattan, back in 1992, on assignment for the Boston National Park Service. I remember visiting the Empire State Building, and also, The World Trade Center. I took lots of photos. I remember that there was a beautiful exhibit at the WTC and took some photos. I can never return now and visit the way it was. But things will NEVER EVER be the same. What we all had was special. But when something takes that away from the citizens of America, we all suffer though in different degrees, but we all suffer in one way or another. Things will never be the same, ever again! With Hope and Prayers To All >From A Concerned Yet Proud Citizen Valerie Ann Thomas 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 story8536.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. 2002-10-21 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 129.174.27.131 Notes Notes about this item. Valerie Ann Thomas 39 Bay Street, Apt 4 Hull, MA 02045 (781) 925-9486 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: Having been in the intelligence community for the past thirty-seven years, and being a senior contract military intelligence analyst, I was aware and relatively up to speed on terroristic threats and the level of preparedness of the County on 11 Sept. One of my students came into the classroom at the beginning of class relating how one of the administration had a radio on and a report had come in stating that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I assumed immediately that some idiot in a Cessna had made serious judgment errors and crashed into one of the Towers. Then screaming from a nearby office told me that something worse perhaps was going on. We received the report that a second plane, a full scale jet, had just crashed into the Towers. I immediately realized at that moment that a terror attack was underway. From that point, everything went downhill. I was contacted by my office in Washington and placed on the highest alert status. I spent the day attempting to comfort the parade of students who passed through the classroom. Several faculty at the school consulted with me as to what to do and say, how to treat this terrible attack in class. It was an unfortunate event which I wish we had been fortunate enough to have prevented. Paul J. Sanborn 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/. 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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 studying, in fact taking a nap, but jumped up with an odd urgent feeling around 2pm, standing on a toolbox and breaking it. Turned on CNN, there was the first tower burning. Phoned my parents to turn on their TV and began hours of watching, unable to work. When the towers fell I phoned my boss at his desk and told him that between 10,000 and 100,000 people must have been killed. I said that business would be scarce for a long time, and told him to send any urgent emails, in case the Internet got attacked by teams of hackers organised by the same terrorists. News websites were slow. A webcam near the WTC showed a street filled with nothing but grey dust. In my chat room, one of our group said her husband had been high up in a WTC tower. He never came home. David 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 story7280.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: After I woke up in the morning, I looked on the TV, and on the news it showed footage of the crash that just happened. I thought it was just a normal fire, nothing that would be devastaing, but I was wrong. As soon as I got to school during first period, we just sat in class and watched the news. As the towers collapsed, no one could believe what was happenening. After that, there was paranoia going around as to where the next plane or planes would crash. The whole day went by very slowly, with no clue as to what would happen next. 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 story8262.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: I first heard about what happened on September 11, 2001. I remember coming back from band. When I got to homeroom the tv was on. All the kids told me what happened. At first, I thought all the kids weere just joking, but then after I watched the tv a little bit I finally understood what had happned. I remember talking about it on the bus with my friends. We were all telking about it. "How many people were dying?" "Where had they hit?". We hadn't found out until the end of school day. Everything that was happening was all new to us. Once I got home I did my homework and watched the news for the rest of the day. It was weird because all the other channels had subsripts running about what was happening. I learned about how many people had died or were dying. I remember watching all sorts of peolpe helping other people who were hurt or looking for people who were buried under the debris. I think my life has changed because of September 11, 2001. I still have a little bit of fear of flying. I have changed the way I think about Afghanistan and the people who come from there. I know it is wrong but I think at first I discriminated against Afghans and other people from the Middle East, but I have decided they are not all that bad. I also feel that I am very lucky that no one that I knew died in or because of September 11, 2001 I think that all the people in the World Trade Centers and the World Trade Centers themselves should be remembered. I think that all of the firefighters and policemen who died or who are still living that helped out during 9-11-01 should be rememberd.. Teh people aboard the airplane that crashed in Pennsylvania who over came the hijackers should be remembered. The people in the pentagon and any civilian who helped out at the scenes cleaning up debris and helping the injured should be rememered. 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 story8512.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: I worked a few blocks away from the WTC at the federal building across from the courthouses. I was in an elevator when the first plane hit, which shook the elevator and shot it down to the lobby of the building from the 36th floor. We then heard about the second plane hitting and evacuated the building-where I walked all the way to 94th street where I lived at the time. I was not aware the towers had collapsed until I got home 3 hrs later. 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 story10477.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. 2004-03-12 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 24.58.1.159 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 would frist like to send my deepest thoughts out to everyone that day that was envolved or lost loved ones.my sister Michelle R. Black is a fire fighter in Red Bluff Ca, I know with with my whole heart that she would have done the same thing as all of the fire fighters in New York. My name is Terry L. Cooley we were living in Chester Ca, on that morning my husband Earl and I were asleep when we got a call from my husbands brother in Arkansas it was about 6:00 am our time he told us to turn on the TV that the New York twin tower was hit by a air plane then we seen live the second tower hit we new right then that this was no accident by that time so many things were happing that it seemed to make me instacly sick and I prayed to God that things would some how be ok but that would never happen life as we knew it was to never be the same. history was being made at that time. I thank God each and every day that things in this world would get better. they say that these people that attacted the USA should be caught and punnished to every extent of our laws but I think that, that is not enough. But God will take care of that in dew time. Our lives have changed forever but our countery is stronger than ever before I just wish that we caould have come together as a country before someone attacted us I love my country and eveyone that fights for us everyday.and those that are in the USA that came together as a family on that day in sept Allen Jackson could'nt have said any better in his song. thank you to our Presdient. I think that he is a great man for our Country. this last year has been very hard but the people in this country are very strong and we will servive this just as our grandparents did the other wars and the deperssion thank you America Terry L Coley Oroville Ca 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 story7362.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: My brother died of colon cancer September 9th after a 4 year battle. We were coming back from breakfast to get ready for his funeral on September 11th when his friend told us about the 1st plane hitting the World Trade Center. We are from Greenville, SC and just were staying a t a motel so ran to our room (we were in the parking lot) just in time to see the 2nd plane hit. Even though we were still numb from my brother's death, my mom, aunt, his friends and I could still not believe we were watching the news and not our own "War of the Worlds". This was real! Not some "made for TV movie", and it was happening on OUR soil. THIS could NOT be happening to US. We were use to hearing and seeing footage on the news of scenes like these from the Middle East, but from the United States, not since Pearl Harbor, and then, not to this extent. The people who lost their lives and loved ones in these tragic events will forever be remembered. It is a day that we must never allow to be forgotten. It would not only dishonor them, but also dishonor the men and women who serve our country past, present, and future, to protect us and the freedoms, we so often take for granted; the freedoms of which these terrorists are afraid. 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 story10153.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. 2003-10-03 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 65.58.107.218 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: "Thow Shall Not Kill" are words from the Bible that should be obayed by everyone, but unfortunatly they are not. On September eleventh of two thausand and one, the two World Trade Centers in New York and the Pentagan here in Virginia were attacked by terrorists. Although we lost two wonderful treasures in our history, the Pentagan remaines standing. What can't be replaced are all of the lives we lost from this incident and those who survived will have to live with the paine inside for the rest of their lives. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was eleven o'clock am, and I was sitting in English class. I was just a junior in highschool back then. Well, another teacher came in to our class screaming, "oh my God, we are going to die!". My teacher was confused and the whole class stopped talking. The other teacher explained that two airplanes had hit the two World Trade Centers and that foreign countries were bombing us. I was sitting next to a window and I just looked outside because I thought I could see the smoke but offcourse I couldn't because I was in Virginia. All of the classrooms had television sets and so, the whole school turned on their televisions and watched the news. Our whole class started crying as we saw the buildings collapse. It hurt me a lot because I had just visited New York and I went to the two World Trade Centers not too long before the incident had happened. I was also hurt because I thought of all the help that America gives to these foreign countries and yet, they turn around and kill thousands of inicint lives. I don't really know the purpose of this incident but I do know that God will punish whoever is responsible for this. I understand that security is geting tighter these days, and that is a good thing because we really can't afford any more incidents like this. In conclusion, incidents may occur like this one in other countries and people don't make a big deal about them because it's normal for other countries. Though, for the United States, incidents like this one arn't supposed to happen and that's why it was a big deal in two thausand and one and it will continue to be a big deal in the future. 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 story10236.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. 2003-12-04 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 164.106.70.162 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 called me from Philadelphia to ask me to watch the news as he had heard a plane had gone into the World Trade Center, he wanted more details. I found the nearest television and there was already another person there and she had just seen the second plane hit the second tower. There were stories coming in fast and furious after that, the Pentagon being hit, a possible car bomb outside the capitol building, etc. My husband called to say that his plane was cancelled and that he was trying to find a rental car to get home. I did not expect to see him for a couple days. Imagine my surprise when he was home before midnight. I am so lucky to be able to say that he came home that day, I know how many thousands more people can't say that. I had a prenatal appointment that day at 3:00pm and I prepared to tape the baby's heartbeat as I had at each appointment before that. I can hear the change in my voice from happy expectation the previous months, to stressed and oh so very sad that month. I will never lose that tape. It is an audible record of my devastation that horrible day. I was so shocked and lost that day, the first time I cried was when our elected officials stood on the steps of the capitol and sang "God Bless America". I still get tears in my eyes when I think of the non-partisan show of support for this great country and the wonderful people that lost their lives, but not their footprints on our souls on September 11, 2001. 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 story4420.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. 24.59.147.176 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: It was difficult to write about this event until a friend in Minnesota sent me a holiday card, in which she wondered how she could explain this to her daughter when she could not understand it herself: In Response to Caroline Rose (Draft 3.5) I am not sure how you can explain it, not even to an eleven-year old at the top of her form. We have had months to think about it, ask, ?Where were you?? without the rest of the question, talk it through. I was about to leave my apartment to vote, then to work, five blocks east of the World Trade Center. The man on the radio said to turn on the television. I saw the second point of impact the way you did, and thought, ?I will vote, then find out if the trains are running, to go to work.? After I voted, in the Senior Center, I stopped by the television room there. A man said he had an appointment, at eleven o?clock, at the World Trade Center. A woman said the appointment might still be kept if it was on a lower floor. It was on the seventy-eighth floor. She responded that it might be cancelled. My neighbor exited the subway at Twenty-Third Street and Fifth Avenue. She looked up to see an enormous fire, then went to work. The trains stopped running; it took her more than two hours to walk home. When the bridges and tunnels were closed, there was an enormous rush to gather supplies. In the market, a little boy asked his mother why she was buying so much food, and what could she answer? They were running low. There was a television on at the bank. We stopped mid-transactions to watch the building fall. Over the next weeks, we were numb, we were small-town quiet, we spent a lot of time talking. I was running errands downtown and passed a site about which I had wondered. It was a cemetery, stuck mid-block; 200 years ago, it was in the country. A woman I had never met struck up a conversation. This often happens here. We enjoyed that the cemetery was established by a man named Preserved Fish. I found out more about her than necessary: what she pays for her apartment, that she has kids. This often happens, as well, but as we parted, she offered me a hug, and what could I do? I hugged her back. This was new. One of the candidates for public office had his headquarters on the street where I live. It is a neighborhood commercial street with an all-night diner, cleaners, Swatch shop, kosher Chinese restaurant, that Gray?s Papaya you have seen in many movies at the corner. He stuck an ironing board outside his storefront, plopped on it a small colour television, and placed in front of that rainbow-coloured folding chairs, right in the middle of the sidewalk. For the whole first week, people gathered, talking it through. The posters went up right away, all over the City, memorials to individuals were stuck in street tree pits, candles lined the sidewalks, rememberances from many places were everywhere. They filled Union Square, since its construction, a park where peace marches assembled, and still do. The posters were heart-wrenching, hand-made and copied quickly: one man was last seen wearing a purple polo and black jeans, one woman was the pastry chef at Windows on the World, several had tattoos of a rose or a cross or a dragon, many had children. A lot of detail was crammed onto letter-sized paper until we knew these people, whether we really did or not. They worked at the top, trading bonds, or at the bottom, in the elevator pits, and the names were from every country in the world. They were from every place in the United States; the pastry chef last worked in a restaurant in San Francisco, where my sister now works as the pastry chef. Over time, things stabilized. Everyone returned to work, but not everything returned to normal. That first day back, I came out of the subway and turned to look west down Fulton Street. There was a gap where buildings had been. At night, it was brilliantly-lit, so that the remains and the cranes were without shadow. The smell was incredible, unforgettable when we dared to think about what we were smelling, and it was heavy. The streets downtown got cleaned twice a day, and still do. In these months, we have absorbed it, somehow, until something small shocks us again: I pulled my money from that bank branch five times last month, twice to buy theatre tickets from the booth in Two. I knew that man in graduate school; he was from Australia. I cannot get to New Jersey by train from downtown. There is no FM National Public Radio. Sometimes, it is a bigger shock: A woman I know will not shop in stores where clerks are Arab. The clerk in the newsstand in the apartment house next door might be Arab. He was looking glum, so I struck up a conversation, as often happens here. He lost two friends who worked in the World Trade Center, and another was in the hospital, badly hurt. I felt with him. A man I know does not mind if his telephone is tapped. Racial profiling has resumed. I doubled my donation to the American Civil Liberties Union. How would I explain it to an eleven-year old? These people were jealous of people in the United States. Even living here, they did not understand life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. They did not see that disparate cultures can agree to differ and that people across a vast land can function as one society and survive (even) themselves. A few years ago, in a hostel in Switzerland, I was asked why I like being a citizen of the United States. I liked it, in part, because anywhere in the world, I could say, ?The President of the United States is an idiot,? which he was, and I would not be arrested. What response could there be? I do not recall one. In part, I could not imagine my home being anywhere but the City of New York, the Capital of the World. You can ask an eleven-year old to keep her mind aware and her heart open, and to work so that anyone in the United States can always speak her mind anywhere. We got all the cards, the presents, the phone calls to talk it through. Thank you. Heidi B. Andersson/s 22 December 2001 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 story592.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. 2002-05-13 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 167.153.4.76 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: Hello, I am Michelle Wink. I am a full-time Military Technician and I was at work on September 11th, 2001. The day started like any other, my husband and I got up for work, we got out 3 1/2 year old son ready for Daycare. I was at work and one of our helpdesk Technicians was fixing my computer when my phone rang; It was my husband. He asked me if I had seen the news? I said no. "You need to go get to a tv and turn it on, The WTC tower is on fire, they think a plane hit it." I sheepishly walked into my Supervisor's Office and said "Sir, Can we turn your TV on, my husband just called and said that a plane hit the World Trade Center" He looked at me weird but did as i had requested....and we sat there in his office in such dis-belief of what was happening, and i couldn't move from the chair. It seemed like forever but others in the office started crowding around the TV and when the 2nd Plane hit, i screamed and started crying.....OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!!!! i have never been so scared in my entire life....i had to walk out of the room....Then immediately we heard something hit the Pentagon......then it was true, another airplane.....and then Pennsylvania crash which we now know was an attempt on the White House diverted by Brave Heroic people. I was dumbfounded, and shocked to say the least at the tragic events. At the time I was also 3 1/2 months pregnant, I now have a beautiful baby girl along with my 4 year old Son, I thank God every day that I have them and that they are safe. 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 story958.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: I was recently married on September 5,2001 and was leaving New York City for first time to live in Atlanta. It was very tough to leave but on the evening of September 10th we said goobye to my family in Long Island and drove to Manhattan to say goodbye to my husband's daughter. As we left New York we looked at the Skyline and I said I wonder when I will see that again.(not knowing how those words would haunt us forever) We drove all night and stopped in Virgina at 4:00am to rest in a hotel. As the world was experiencing one of the most tragic events of our history my husband and I slept. When we woke up around 11:00am my husband turned on the TV while I was in the shower and screamed "Oh my god, come out here and see this". We sat in horror and disbelief and just cried. We immediately became frantic not knowing about our families especially my brother who is a New York City Policemen. The telephone lines were down and we could not get through anyone. I immediately wanted to turn around and go back to New York. My husband wisely said there is no way that we will be able to get back in to the city. We sat feeling helpless and dumbfounded. It was hours before we could get through to our families but thank god everyone was fine. My brother however, was part of the search and recovery and rescue and will never be the same again. I almost lost a very good friend. She was in the first tower when the first plane hit but was smart enough not listen to being told to get back and stay. Thank god she ran out before the building collasped. I cannot imagine what it must have felt like to have been in New York and experience the horror first hand. I pray everyday for faith, strength and hope for all the victims and their families of the WTC, Pentagon and Flight 93. 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 story6677.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: I was sitting at my computer going over lesson plans, and my wife called me into the living room to watch the news about the first plane hitting the first tower. In disbelief, we sat there and watched the second plane hit the second tower, and later watched both towers crumble to the ground. As an American, I cried like a baby. It was as if something very valuable had been taken away from me ... my identity ... and I was vunerable and scared. And it was a horrible feeling to watch so many people in the two towers perish. And the continuation of the attacks with the Pentagon being hit and people dying and the fourth plane crashing in Pennsylvania with more innocent deaths made me angry. I'm still angry 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 story20743.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: My Nextel Phone went off and a good freind of mine said turn on the T.V. I was half asleep and aksed him why he said just do it. I turned on the T.V. the second I turned it on I saw the second hit the other tower. I remember my heart just went crazy I went from half asleep I ran downstairs and turned on the big screen yelling to my wife that we were at war. My grandfather used to tell me about Pearl Harbor and the stories were interesting but something seemed cold and distant about it, this was live and on every channel this was real. People were dying I couldn't even hardly speak, I just stood jaw agape and in shock as to the horror of this. I remember thinking of the power of hatred and how someone could do this to us what kind of hatred and lack of love for anything good and sacred a person would have to have to do this. I held my children extra close that day and since out of this horrible tragedy has been a great reminder that life is a gift, and that must be defended. I support our troops and pray for them to godspeed in ridding the world of hatemongers like the ones that did this to us. 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 story9916.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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