211 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 was driving down kennedy blvd in north jersey, when i saw the twin towers on fire,i could'nt believe my eyes . all i saw was the tip of one building burning and there was alot of smoke . all i was thinking about was that imagine i was there. 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 story11154.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. 2004-11-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 67.83.141.187 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 felt scare when i heard the new because my aunt worked there but I picked up the phone imidietly and call my grandfather and asked him if my aunt was at work but i calm down when my grandfather said that she had vacation but in a way i felt sad because everyone in the world are brothers and sisters so thats why i felt sad.my life wont be the same after the tradegy.REST IN PEACE BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF MINE. 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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 friend & I took a 6:30 AM train down to Hoboken that morning and proceeded to take the PATH train into the WTC as we've always done before. We were just going down to the city for the day, this time without our daughters. We'd just arrived, came up from the train and walked across into the Crabtree & Evelyn store. We were only in there less than 10 min. when we felt a muffled rumble. I assumed it was the trains down below. All of a sudden we heard a commotion outside the store and saw people running in droves past the store. One woman stopped in the doorway, and as she was taking off her highheels, yelled for us to get out because there'd been an explosion. We then thought it was a bomb because of 1993. We followed the crowd to the outside and there were papers and ash everywhere. There was still things falling down from the sky. We heard a man say that a plane had hit the tower. Everyone thought it was an accident at first. We started looking at all of the things on the ground. We saw a woman's black shoe lying on the sidewalk, airline and Amtrak tickets, stock papers, business cards from the 94th floor. Then we saw a credit card from the Bank of Boston. It was still intact except for being bent up a bit on the bottom. We didn't find out until a couple of days later by reading the paper that it belonged to a flight attendant from Flight 11. We turned over the few things we'd saved for ID purposes to the FBI. We were still in the area when we heard another plane flying and the loudest noise I've ever heard. The explosion was deafening! We began running again. We found our way to a telephone to phone home and stood with others on a street corner listening to a car's radio. Later we found our way to a coffee shop, only to be trapped in there through both collapses. The smoke and debris just came down the street like a tidal wave and engulfed the shop where we were. It was pitch black outside. People came in off & on covered with ash, some in their eyes and some bleeding. It was like being in a war-zone. Hours later we were able to leave there, covering our faces from the dust, and walked uptown. We did manage to get out of the city that night by walking to Grand Central Station. 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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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 have a story per se;I have a cousin who worked right next to the WTC and we were all worried about him.WE didn't hear from him for a few days.I can't imagine losing a loved one in it. 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 story9923.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 luck would (or would not) have it I arrived 15 minutes early to my Business Law class. That is why I did not know about the plane crashing into the first building. I stepped out of my car at 7:45 a.m. cdt. Everything was normal in school even when my professor asked us if any one had heard the radio... Then he told us of a plane crashing into one of the World Trade Center Towers. I said "Maybe it was one of the tourist planes, because there was no way a jetliner would have crashed into the building. The airports are just not that close to Downtown for that type of accident." I knew this because I had been a Flight Attendant for 10 years and had flown into all of the surrounding airports many times. We went on with class as normal, but I was anxious for it to be over so I could go listen to the news in my car. I had another class to attend and I had left my purse at home that day, so I had to go home. I got in my car and the first thing I heard was one of the Towers had collapsed and the other had been hit by another plane. I started crying and immediatley called my father who was at his house in Plano. I said hysterically "Dad, what in the world is going on?" His response was "Oh Trisha, it is so awful. Where are you? You need to get home right away. Two airliners have crashed into the World Trade Center Towers, One has just collapsed, and more planes had been hijacked." I didn't know what airliners had been hijacked and I was very nervous for my friends who I knew were flying on that day. My biggest concern was for my children. I had a 2nd and 4th grader at a local elementary school, and I had no clue of what was going on with their school. I went home, got my purse and went to get my children from their school to bring them home with me. The Principal tried to talk me out of this, after all, he had handled this type of situation before. I assured him that I know they would be safe at school, but I needed them with me. It was about me and how safe I felt. My dad came over and we spent the day together crying, and then playing games with the boys. It turned in to a great family day. (My husband was at work, and I don't think he understood the magnitude of the situation until he came home from work and could watch the news.) I feel a great loss, and so sad. I can't understand even to this day why people feel it is necessary to cause such destruction on other people. I pray that all can find a different way to solve problems. God Bless America! 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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 boyfriend woke me up on September 11 saying my friend was on the phone. He was saying something about America being attacked and thinking it was all a joke because Jodi, my friend, and I had just had a huge fight the night before. Jodi got me to turn on the television and we saw what was going on with the first tower. Then we saw the plane crash into the second tower. My boyfriend and I went driving around Fremont to see what was going on around our town, and we heard a loud, large jet fly overhead. We thought the attacks were moving towards Nebraska because all the airplanes were supposed to be grounded. Shortly after that we heard President Bush was in Nebraska at an airforce base, not more than half an hour away. We went home and spent the rest of the day on the couch together, glued to the television in shock. 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 story6019.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 11th was the Tueday before my wedding day (September 15th)and my last day of work that week. It was such a emtional swing to me because I had been so happly antisipating my wedding day that this tragety realy made me take stock of everything in my life. I was so grateful that I had found my one true love of my life yet so many other's had lost their loved ones. I gave blood which including the wait took 8 hours the next day. I didn't even care if my needle puncture showed on my arm my wedding day..I just felt the need that I had to do something and that was all I could think of. It was so great to be with so many others who thought to give blood, they were from all walks of life,young hairdressors to business men lined the outside of the building waiting to give blood. That week will always have a special day in my heart, as so much of my life was changing so was the entire worlds. It helps me be strong in my life and marriage because so many American's espically New Yorker's showed the world what we are made of. This country is the greatest because the people are so great and any trial will prove that we are always winners and can accomplish anything that we set our minds to. The group that tried to set up down really made us as a nation rise up and salute this great country. God Bless The USA!! 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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: 1. How did you witness history on September 11th? Share your experience. I was attending a master gardener class when our speaker came into the room and said the World Trade center and Pentagon were hit by an airplane. The room fell silent and you could hear a pen drop. My partner immediately tried to use her cell phone and offered help because she was a nurse. She left and our class was dismissed early. I kept my hair appointment because he assured me he had a T.V. and we could watch the news together. I was glad I wasn't alone tht afternoon because my sons were at school and my husband was at work. 2.Has your life changed because of September 11, 2001? If so tell us how. Yes I think everybodys life has changed. I tried to be more aware of my surroundings and I want to be more knowledgeable about world events. I try not to take things for granted and hope to live each day to the fullest. The family goes to church more often and we hope to show more kindness and peace in the world. 3.What do you think should be remembered about September 11th? There were so many courageous people that helped the victims and hurting people in D.C., New York, Pennsylvania and we should never forget their bravery. I think we should remember how patriotic our country became and all walks of life helped out. The store sold American flags. Red Cross received too much blood. People donated millions of money and services to help after 9/11. Our government showed leadership and really began to work together. 4.Did you fly an American flag after the events of September 11th? Have your feelings about the American flag changed as a result of September 11th? Yes I had a flag flying that Saturday on the front of my house and had miniture flags on top of our mailbox. My feelings are stronger for the American flag. Being a teacher I always had a flag in the classroom and taught facts about the flag to the kids. I still get goosebumps when the National Anthem is sung with the flag at sporting events. I love seeing people show their patriotism by flying the flag more often. 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 story8849.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: On September 11th, I turned on the TV shortly after the first plane crashed onto one of the towers. It must have been right before 9am. I had no idea what was going on. I was just about to get ready for work, when I found myself glued to the TV and in awe. My husband was on a business trip in LA and I was alone at home. I called him at around 9am and he told me that he was watching too. We didn't know what to think. At first, we thought it was an accident, but then we saw the second plane crash and the news reported the possibility of a terrorist attack. I could not believe my eyes when I saw the first tower collapse, both of us still on the phone, we were heart broken. We didn't think the towers would fall, we thought the top would just burn. So, I proceed to make calls to our family. My husband's dad lives in Queens, and I could not reach anyone in the NY area because all the NJ/NY lines were tied up. My dad works in DC, and no luck either. I got on the internet right away, and my sister in law who lives in DC, is on AOL IM - tells me she's scared because they won't let her out of her building. She works only a few blocks from the White House. She says the lines are busy and cannot get through to her family. I then call her mom and tell her she's ok. She didn't get home that day until late afternoon. Thank God for IM! I called work, to find out if people knew about this, my office mate and another friend said they were all listening to the news on the radio and that people had left work already and that the building was closing shortly. We live near the Jersey shore and this place called Union Beach is about 5 minutes away. On a clear day, you can see NYC from the small boardwalk. So 3 of us decided to go. We went there after the towers had already collapsed. We saw a lot of smoke and an intense fire going on. There were a number of people watching with us. It was very sad. I still cannot understand how these people could have done such an awful thing. My sympathies to all who were affected and those who lost loved ones. May God bless us all. 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 story1724.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. 2002-09-04 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 209.191.157.50 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 BABYSITTING FOR A FRIEND WHEN IT CAME ON THE TV THAT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER WAS HIT BY THE FIRST PLANE. I STARTED CRYING, I KNEW RIGHT THEN IT WAS A TERRORIST ATTACK. ALL I COULD THINK ABOUT WAS MY LITTLE GIRL,HOW MUCH I LOVED HER. SHE WAS TURNING 2 ON SEPT. 13, AND I COULDN'T THINK OF LIFE WITHOUT HER,BUT I ALSO THOUGHT TO MYSELF WHAT KINDA WORLD HAD I BROUGHT HER INTO. I WATCH THE TV FOR DAYS I COULDN'T TAKE MY EYES OFF IT!! FOR THE PAST YEAR ALL I COULD THINK ABOUT IS THE POOR CHILDREN WHO LOST A FATHER OR MOTHER ON THIS DAY. TODAY IS SEPT. 11 AND ONCE AGAIN ALL I CAN DO IS WATCH THE TV AND HUG MY LITTLE GIRL AND MY 8WEEK OLD SON AND THANK THE LORD FOR ALL HE HAS GIVEN ME, MY FAMILY , FRIENDS AND OUR FREEDOM TO BE IN THE USA. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS 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 story5586.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 came to work that Tuesday morning later than the others in the office. As I sat down at my desk, my co-worker Tim walked up and began to tell a group of us how his wife called him and told him a plane had hit one of the towers. I thought it was odd news, but was not shocked b/c I didn't understand the magnitude of the event (didn't know size of the plane, didn't see pictures of smoke billowing out of the tower). Then Tim says, "and you won't believe this", his wife was watching the live news while talking to him on the phone, and told him as a 2nd plane was hitting the other tower! Maybe two seconds passed before all of us in the office got over our surprise and voiced the understanding that this had to be an intentional terrorist act. The funny thing was that Tim said this with a kind of bemused grin on his face. And I grinned back at him this way. It was the kind of grin you put on when an extraordinary event occurs that you just can't believe. At that moment, we didn't have a TV so none of us in the office had seen pictures of it, we didn't think much of the resulting fire, and didn't know how large the planes were. We just didn't fully realize that hundreds of people had just been slaughtered. Then the group started to theorize about what would happen. Somebody pointed out that there would be a fire and it would probably trap everybody above the point of collision. Slowly, as we thought about it more and got more details, we came to the realization of just how huge an attack this was, and how many people may have died and may still die. From this point on, not much work got done. Myself and the other computer-savvy folks started scouring the Internet for news information. Practically all of the news pages were unavailable since they were being flooded with requests. Finally one of us found a small local news page that was slow but accessible. Then we saw pictures of the smoking towers. I started calling friends and getting calls from friends--email just didn't seem to be an intimate enough forum for discussing the matter. I wanted to connect with people I knew, to hear their voice. One of my friends called, saying in depressed shock, "Can you believe what's going on?" He was at home watching TV. Then he said to me, expressing a very sad, resigned, and desperate feeling, "oh god it just fell." But I didn't appreciate what he was saying. I just assumed that maybe a top part of one of the towers had fallen off. I didn't fathom that the whole thing could collapse. I wouldn't find that out until a few hours later. At lunchtime, one of the head management told us he was heading home for a long lunch, which he doesn't normally do. We all understood that he was going home to be with his family. So I called my girlfriend and asked her to come home for lunch with me. People just wanted to be with those they love that day. (Probably even at that very early point most people had already started having their life's priorities rearranged--started to understand with greater clarity than most of us ever had before what's most important in life.) I will never forget sitting on the couch next to her, turning on the news, and first seeing a replay of the 2nd plane hitting. As that fireball flew out from the building, I felt that awful feeling knowing that hundreds of people had just instantly loss their lives by the deliberate act of some other. My girlfriend and I let out small gasps of shock and then sat there silent for a long time, watching the news coverage, holding each other. The emotional impact and magnitude of the event had finally settled in. When I saw that collision and fireball, 5% of me marvelled at how it was like an action movie. 90% of me felt that deep, monolithic and appropriate feeling of horror and grief for those who died. This was a feeling I'd never had before; it must be the kind of thing a soldier experiences on the battlefield. And the other 5% of me pondered how I--someone who'd grown up watching action movies and playing video games and had always revelled in the fake war and death so prevalent in our entertainment culture--experienced a reaction entirely different from when I watched those movies. And I was glad that this horrible event had exposed so clearly and definitively my true humanity, which is so often obscured in the entertainment-centric nature of our everyday lives. I was shocked when I saw replays of the towers collapsing. I didn't think that was possible. I just never considered the physics involved. When my friend had mentioned it earlier, I had assumed that the top part might have come off and slid off the top. Watching the thing crumble to dust gave me such a deadening feeling in the pit of my stomache. I felt like I couldn't properly feel the depth of emotion that was relevant to this event. I felt like there weren't any emotions that could reflect the depth of horror seen in those images. In the days following, my life changed, as so many others. I saw things in a different light. My priorities in life were rearranged for the better. My pride in my country was reawakened. And, above all, I stopped taking things for granted. My feeling in the days and weeks after the event was one of grief, confusion, but also pride. I didn't feel much anger; I felt something much stronger than that. I felt a steely resolve and grim sense of determination. One other change I've noticed in myself and others since 9/11 is a greater desire to understand the world. I read the international news with a passion now. And I know others who now, despite never having watched the news for anything before, keep tabs on the latest headlines. Because of Americans' reaction to 9/11, I'm optimistic for the future of my country. And I'm optimistic for the future of the 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 story8916.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 woke up around 9:30 a.m on a balmy Tuesday morning, and turned on the tv. I didn't have class that day, so I thought I was going to be my usual routine , of laundry and clean my room. I looked at the tv, and heard some crazy news of someone crashed into the World Trade Center. I said what in the world, who can't fly a plane ?!? I then listened even more and realized that America was attacked. I couldn't believe it. Someone had come into out own country and used our own planes against us to kill innocent people. People who didn't even know what was coming. They had on chance to pray, or even to call their loved ones and tell them good-bye. I was shocked and am still in shock about this. I said a prayer this morning to all the famlies, and I wish them much happiness in the years to come. 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 story4074.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. 205.188.209.38 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: That morning I walked into English class and the TV was on and I saw a big building with smoke coming from the top. I asked what happened and she said someone crashed into the world trade center. At first I didnt know what that was and I wathched it for a little while longer and then I saw where it was. Then a teacher from accross the hall came in and was like THEY ARE MAKING US TURN ALL THE TV'S OFF so she turned it off. She looked like she was on the verge of tears. I was in awe that someone did that. it was just crazy. When i got home I saw all the news bullentins and how they had also hit the pentagon and tried to hi the white house. I finnally turned off the TV beacuse they just kept showing them over and over again and I was cick of seeing it. All day it was just kinda sad and quiet. Kinda freaky. 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 story3515.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: On the morning of September 11 I walked in to my mom?s room to see the first tower in smoke on the television. I asked my mom what happened, but my mom only said that she didn?t know but an airplane hit the World Trade Center. As I continued to watch the TV I saw the second plane hit. I remember all the news anchors were dumbfound and didn?t know what to say, but after the second plane hit they realized it must have been some sort of attack. I also remember going to school and asking all my friends if they had heard what happened. During lunch my friend was desperately trying to contact her brother who was supposed to be released from service in that army that day, but instead they called him back. It all seemed so fake and surreal? I couldn?t believe it. When I went home all my brothers and sisters were there and we sat around the TV watching the news. During dinner that was all we talked about, while we were washing the dishes that was all we talked about? that was all we talked about for awhile. I remember watching the people jump out of the windows in the World Trade Center and my sister saying ?Oh my God, that?s horrible. It?s just awful.? It was so hard to believe what was happening? I mean, I couldn?t believe it. I think it was harder because I didn?t personally know anyone in New York and I was so far from the World Trade Center that it was just surreal. During the assembly at our school on September 11 earlier this year I wanted to cry, but I think it will be okay. 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 story8323.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 working when my oldest son called me and told me what happened, forgeting that his younger brother worked there. It seemed like hours but with-in 10 minutes my son called from the street outside the buildings and said he was heading home. Less then a minute later the 2nd plane hit and the next hour seemed even longer as all the phone lines were busy and i could not reach my son. I finaly heard from him just before he came home at 10 am. I don't know how all the people who lost someone that day dealt with the hurt and sorrow, but my heart goes out to each and everyone of 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 story5297.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 at home sleeping when my fiance came home and told me to come into the living room. He turned on the tv and there in front of me was the remains of the world trade center. I did not believe it at first. It seemed so unreal like a movie. How could someone do this. It only took a few seconds for this to hit home. I immediatly grabbed the phone and called my parents. They were busy trying to get a hold of my brother. He is stationed at the Naval base in Italy. It took about 2 hours to even get a call through to Italy. He was on lock down. They had him on the highest alert. They were briefing everyone for war. Fighter jets were going up every hour. While I was at home crying and feeling safer than him, I couldnt imagine what he was feeling. To be only 20 and having to prepare to go to war. Now it is 1 year later and he is being shipped out on an aircraft carrier heading to the middle east. My thoughts now are is he going to make it home. 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 story7407.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 getting ready for work when my mom rushed in and told me to go to the nearest television. I watched as they showed over and over the planes hitting the towers. As that was happening a local station out here happened to be at the Pentagon and we watched live as the the reporter heard an explosion and saw construction workers running away. I also saw live the towers collapse. At this point I had to leave for work. It was the worst day I can possibly imagine. They closed work about 2 hours after I got there and allowed us to go home and spend it with our families. Even that first day I saw teenagers--no longer apethetic--standing along the road, waving flags; people take down the Confederate flags on their cars and put on American Flags; and banners hanging over highways. It was horrible, but it also brought out the best in our country. It gave me a new faith in America. God bless America and God bless all our soldiers fighting to defend it. 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 story1128.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. 2002-08-19 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 63.49.137.244 Annotation Annotations to this item. Patriotism Television Coverage DC: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: Well, my story is I was at work the morning of September 11th, 2001. I was a housekeeper at a motel, and the way I found out was I was having a break before I started work and a guest came to the office to get some coffee and said "Have you heard?" I said "Heard what?" He said, "A plane just crashed into the World Trade Center." My first thought was that is was a flying proceedure gone wrong. But when I tuned in to the t.v. I seen it for my own eyes. I was shocked. And then out of nowhere here came another one. I was scared cause I didn't know if I had family anywhere near it or involoved in it, and I still don't know if I had family involved. I found out a few months later that my father was there that day trying to deliver a truck load, he is a truck driver, and couldn't get through, and I thank GOD so much that he delayed my father cause if didn't then I would be grieving for my father right now. But instead I am grieving for everyone else who lost a loved one. I didn't know how to show or express my grief and my sadness except in one way which was to write a poem like I do every other terrible thing that happens in my life. I would like to share it with you out there and let you know that I sent it in to a poetry contest and it was inducted into the International Society of Poets. So, now millions will read my poem and remember 9/11/01. Here is my poem: ****** MY FEARS ****** As I sit here and wathc the news, I wonder if my kids will have lives to choose. How can someone be so evil, And kill so many innocent people? I wake up every morning filled with fear, As my eyes fill up with tears. I keep wondering how much time my family has left, Before we sunddenly meet our death. I spend everyday with my family for the best, Just in case it turns out to be our last. I am totally in fear for my children's lives, And hope they will get a chance to choose a wife. AMERICA is meant to be a land of FREEDOM, Not to be lived in with fear of our lives from terrorism. Life is very precious so live every moment you can with your family as if were going to be your last!!!!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!!!! By: NaKisha M. S. Bicknell 10/11/01 I don't want to hurt anyone with this poem, but this is the only way I can express what I am feeling about something. I hae learned a lot about that day and it has only made me stronger knowing I am still alive and knowing I am still here to help others. Well that is my story and the way I have learned from this terrible mistake. I hope all of you can learn and grow from it too. If you would like to comtact me and talk to my email address is: Nbick01@aol.com and Have a wonderful day and don't forget to tell your loved ones you love them before you go to work or school or even if you are just going to the store it don't matter tell them you love them and give them a big hug and kiss. Sincerely, NaKisha Bicknell of Longmont, CO. 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 story7612.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 a third year college student in all typicality, I had hit the snooze button on my alarm clock several times, unknowingly drifting in and out of sleep through the last innocent morning in America. I finally got out of bed at around 10:00 and began straigntening my apartment here and there--with a full schedule and a part-time job, this morning was the only free time I'd have to clean before my mother's arrival the following day. I recall that the portable phone was resting on the open kitchen counter; I don't remember it ringing or saying "hello," but I do remember the tone of my father's voice when he told me to turn on the television. One of the towers had already fallen and I questioned if it had ever been there at all because I was afraid of that reality. I watched the second tower there, wounded against the clear sky. I would later site the irony in 100% visibility on the day when no one wanted to be looking down from the top of the WTC. I watched the tower fall on live television; it was like watching a lit fuse. Never had I felt so completely helpless and far away from the great city; I envisioned a million Americans standing at our televisions holding our hands out as if to say, "No," as we would had we watched a castle of playing cards fall to the floor beneath us after hours of building such a masterpiece. It was the most critical moment in my life--being able to do nothing, standing open-mouthed and holding a garbage bag of my college-girl trash. From then on I think America finally became interested in The News. Trying to make sense of this now, still in the same apartment in Chapel Hill and approaching my senior year, I wonder about the unity we have now as America contrasted with the unity we had before the attacks. I think about the American condition on the night of September 10th versus that condition on the night of September 12th--or even tonight for that matter. We may have been happy with our lives for the most part, petty social problems surrounding us, living in an ignorant bliss. Life was good and I was in college and the weather and the boys and the shopping in Chapel Hill were SO far out of this world that I was completely blind to problems outside those of my solitary life. The morning of September 11th transformed me from that person living in the far-away Chapel Hill to a person living in a bleeding America. We have gone on with our lives--those of us college-girls who lost no one personally in the tragedy--we go to bars and we make good grades and we keep buying the same perfume we wore before the 11th. Looking up and reading the stories of Carolina alumni who lost their lives in 9/11 makes me want to empathize a situation I cannot, but I try to imagine myself as the in-love fiance of one man killed on that day out of simply wanting to feel more in common with those who are grieving. As a single and unattatched young woman, I imagine feeling a love so great for someone and then losing him to something of this magnitude; I think about the last time he smiled at me or the vacation we just shared: it was beautiful and romantic and we were happy, having no idea that soon one of us would be taken away and the other one left here with the pain of memory and survival. So I believe that the three most unifying days between America and my life in Chapel Hill were the 10th, 11th and 12th of September. Together to some extent we shared a quiet night, the last innocent morning, and the beginning of a future that would want us to feel. 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 story877.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 will never forget the day of the tragic attacks on our country on Sept. 11, 2001. It was a day after my son's 3rd birthday and we were outside cleaning up the yard from his party the day before. I had a feeling something was wrong and I came in the house to see if anyone had called while I was outside and I seen that nobody called. I started to walk to the door to finish outside and I felt a sudden urge to watch T.V. Mind you I am not a television watcher and I am not aware of current events going on. But on that tragic day I turned to the CNN channel for some reason to only see that the 1st Trade Center Tower had been hit. I stood in amazement as to what was going on in our nation. Then suddenly the 2nd tower was hit again, by a terrorist attack we were told. I thought that the first one was an accident due to air traffic control and this was something simply accidental. But as the nation was watching Im sure I wasnt the only one feeling like I needed to rush and grab my children from there schools, embrace them and let them know that I am here to keep them safe. I immediately tried to phone my husband as I knew he was an Over The Road truck driver to tell him of the news. But for some reason he wasnt answering the phone. The scariest part for me was the thought of knowing he was in New York delivering a load. I tried for hours to reach him, and of course he was using a Cellphone. I contacted all of the family to warn them that he may of been involved in this one way or another. I contacted our local wireless carrier in desperation on locating my husband. I finally reached him and let him know I was so worried, thinking I would have to raise our 5 children without him. I cried and he listened as I explained to him what had happened. While all of this is going on on television he is reassuring me he is fine and that the company he was working for had relocated him to Georgia and that he was safe and away from harm. I immediately called the schools where my children attend and told them I was coming to get them from school. The night of this terrible attack we as a family prayed for those lost in those awful and horrific acts of terrorism, knowing there we many lives lost and many lives changed forever. Nothing can ever take the feeling of loss away from those who had no direct effect in Sept. 11 loss of man, but we can always remember those innocent people who died for our country. We have many heroes in our nation and the had thing to deal with as a nation is that we will all have to eventually go on and live our lives. As easy as it is to say it may be much harder for some to do. I was not in New York, Washington, or Pennsylvania on 9-11-01, but I feel as close to those people as I have never felt before. Trust me when I say I greive for the familys who lost mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, and friends and neighbors or our surrounding fire stations and police forces. Our deepest sympathy goes to all of the familys, and I pray that God will give you some closier to this act of terrorism. May God Bless all those effected by 9-11-01 and may Peace be with all of you reading this. 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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