270 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: My husband is a truck driver with a major carrier and we had to deliver a load about 1 1/2 blocks from the WTC. When we heard the "blast" from the plane going into the building, I panicked because my brother worked. I didn't know at the time that he was on vacation, so was unharmed. I, however, was distraught and wanting to go over to the WTC to try finding him, but there was so much chaos and the streets were blocked off. My husband pointed to the buildings and said, "There's another plane and it's going into the building!! My God, My God! What's happening?!" I burst into tears. I could hear all manner of terrifying noises, screams, sirens... I fell to my knees and began praying, asking God to keep my brother and his co-workers safe. In the year that has passed, I have felt relief at my brother's well-being coupled with intense grief for those who lost loved ones, for all the innocent lives that were lost. September 11 is also my husband's birthday and so the day was especially difficult for him. We weren't able to get out of there until after 8 pm. It is a day I will never forget. It haunts me many times, interrupts my sleep and is the subject of many prayers. I am proud that we as a nation have chosen to band together with love, hope and American pride. We are not entirely a selfish people as witnessed by those who given of their time, efforts and energies to assist, comfort and help those directly impacted by this frightening event. I am blessed with greater appreciation for the freedoms we have here in America. My prayers will always be with the victims and their families, friends and surviving co-workers. May God bless the country with even greater unity, hope and love. 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 story4038.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. 68.129.6.167 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I walked in to my Government/Economics class and began to laugh with my friends like we had always done. I went to my desk quietly and sat down. My teacher Mr.Nuss had turned on CNN. Then as I looked up at the T.V. they anounced that a hi-jacked plane had been run into one of the World Trade Center towers. I was in shock. Then I saw something that had completely shattered me. I saw the second plane hit and the third that hit the pentagon. I couldn't beleave my eyes. I tried to collect my thoughts but I was just to frantic. For the rest of school I could not concentrate at all. I went to my boyfriends house right after school and told him that I was scared. It made say to myself what did we do to the terrorists that made them do such a thing to all of those innocent people? I tossed and turned all night and could not sleep at all. From that day forward I had been forever changed. I wrote this poem today on the 1 year anniversery: America's Day of terror Do you remember, that day in september? The terrorists were jealous of what we had, so they killed all those people and didn't even feel bad. They will pay, for what they did that day. I'll be a proud american and do my part, because each one of those victims have a peice of my heart. Love Always, Ashleigh Marie Powell Age 17 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 story5552.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. 152.163.188.6 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: As I was walking throgh the halls getting information for the school newspaper. I heard so classes watching the news and crying. Well I went and the teacher what was wrong and she told me that an airplane just struck the first tower and I was totaly shocked at this. Well after I heard this I went back and we stopped the paper. And we listen for more information regarding the crash then we heard that the second one was hit same way with a plane. Then I started taking notes for the front page story and then I heard about the other two planes. From there I wrote the front page story. 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 story5966.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-12 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 170.215.184.170 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 on my way to a morning class at Mississippi State University. I turned on the radio and heard something about planes crashing into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. I thought it was a huge accident, but I was terribly wrong. After arriving at school, several students were huddled around the television watching in disbelief. About an hour later I watched one tower after the other collapse. It was like watching something in a movie. It just did not look real. The next several hours I was filled with great anxiety and sadness. I went in my room and cried later that evening. I felt a great amount of guilt for what had happened and tried to put myself in the shoes of the victims and their thoughts. Just a few years ago I visited the World Trade Center. After the tragedy I put the picture up on my refrigerator to remember those who were lost. They paid the ultimated price so that we may tighten up the security and safety of our country. May God bless the victims as well as their families. 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 story9371.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 at a supermarket at the time, in the office, when one of my co-workers came up front and said that a plane had just hit one of the towers. At the time we were all just thinking that it was some kind of freak accident or something. It never occured to any of us that it was the work of terrorists until we heard that a second plane had hit the other tower and then the pentagon as well, then we were all really shaken. You didn't know where the next attack would be and when, or if there would be no more. It was just an unbelievable, unreal event to witness and i hope that it is something this country never has to live through 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 story4282.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 64.12.96.8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I remember getting out of class around 8:55, I was on my way to my next class when I heard a fellow student telling his friend that someone had dropped a bomb on the world trade center. At first I thought he was playing a joke on his friend. I went to the university center and saw a sign that said CNN upstairs. Then I new something was wrong. As I made it up the stairs. I was there to witness the most horrible scene, that second plane crashing into the world trade center...... 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 story6623.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-12 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 144.96.123.31 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 did not find out about the attacks until I got to my first period class. No one in my zero hour class had known. I got to my class and everyone in the room next to us was watching TV. I went into our room and no one was there. A few minutes later the teacher walked in, and she asked me what I was doing. I told her I was just sitting and I asked where everyone was. She told me that they were watching the news. I asked her what they were watching and she said, don't you know what happened? No, I said back, I was so confused. Kristen, she said, two planes flew into the world trade center. She brought me into the room next door so I could watch the news with everyone else. We all just sat there and didn't say anything. There was nothing to say. We watched as both collapsed. We had two TVs in the room so we were watching two different channels and got to listen two newscasters. I eventually had to go to my next class in which we took a test and were listening to the news on the radio. Basically all day we listened to the news in our classes. Most teachers didn't teach anything new and many of them knew people that worked at the world trade center so they were really worried. Through out the day, my battery on my cell phone was dead, so I could not call my parents, but I knew that we know people that live in New York. My dad's best friend works across the street from where the trade centers were and luckily he was late to work that day. He got there right after the second plane hit. Other than that, I feel that the attacks didn't affect me as much as they affected people I know. 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 story2605.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. 206.77.47.2 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: On September 11, 2001, I had taken the day off to be at home in my own grief. My oldest son was killed on September 11, 1996. I never watch television, but on this sad day for me, I found myself pouring another cup of coffee and bringing it into the bedroom and turning on the TV. Not five minutes later, I watched in horror as the events began to unfold. I cannot explain what this did to me, but I was shaking uncontrollably, crying....not only for my own loss, but to know that now so many others will mourn the loss of their own children and loved ones. It is a pain that no one should have to know. The anniversary of my son's death is now shared by so many in our country. As was my son's death, the deaths on 9/11/01 were senseless and at the hands of others. My heart goes out to each and every person who has lost a loved one. It never gets any easier, the pain never goes away. It just gets "different" 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 story5017.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 64.12.96.8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: We received a phone call just before 7:00am from (of all people) my ex-husband...He said "Have you heard...a plane has gone into one of the Twin Towers in New York..." How do you believe something like that!!! We got around and watched the television...Our 12 year old son stood next to me and asked very solemnly..."You know what this means..." Then he very accurately explained what was happening and what would happen next. He then said "Mom this is OUR Pearl Harbor...Now we know how they felt." Then he hugged me and left for school...I didnt want to let him go!! My husband also gave me his love and went off to work. My ex-husband called back and asked if our two boys could stay home with him..It was his birthday..he didnt want to let them go either. I then went and held our 2 year old daughter and prayed for the future and for those hurt, injured and now missing their loved ones..I dtill do this every day..I Love our country..With all of its flawa, I love it!!! The Hubbards 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 story4832.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 remember it perfectly. I had my hair down that day, because I had just had it cut. I was wearing a black and purple shirt that said Rebel on the front, and some blue flares. I was trying to figure out the math problem on the board, when I saw my history teacher walk in, whispering into my math teacher's ear. She just turned pale, and told us, and I started to cry. I cried because my sister and cousins and brother-in-law and aunts and uncles live in New York, and I didn't know where they were so I was freaked out. They were all okay though. 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 story9064.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. 2003-02-16 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 205.188.209.165 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 principal Sue, hardly ever interrupts our class by knocking on the door. So, on the morning of September 11th while I was teaching religion class in my second grade classroom, I was surprised to see Sue at the door to my classroom. She asked me to come out into the hallway. I automatically began to think to myself, "Which parent is upset and why, or did something happen to my family?" All kinds of things were going through my head. I told my second graders to read the next page quietly to themselves, and went out to talk to Sue. She told me that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center in New York City. I thought it must have been a small plane that had somehow got off course and had an accident. Sue told me that it was actually a passenger plane and many people were dead. But we both believed that it was just an accident. At the time, the second plane hadn't hit the other building yet. Images flashed through my mind of when I had visited New York just a few years before for a teacher's conference, and one of our stops was the World Trade Center. I searched my mind for the faces that I had seen working in those buildings and wondered if they were OK. Sue told me not to tell the children yet until we had more information. I went back in the classroom where we said a Hail Mary as a class and went back to work. After dropping the kids off at art about an hour later, I went up to the teacher's lounge to watch the TV that a teacher's aide had brought in. We now knew that our country was under attack. I sat there in shock. Many people were crying and worried about people they knew who were flying that day. We all were thinking about what to tell the students. Parents were calling in and somewhat in a panic. We agreed as a staff that it would be best if we would proceed through the day as normally as we could, and at 1:00 our other principal Greg, would come on the intercom and let our students know what had happened in our country. We would then pray the Rosary together as a school. It was a powerful time. My own students really did not understand what was happening. Two of them did have parents who were on business in New York City. I had them call home to make sure that everything was OK. Because this wasn't happening directly to them here in Kansas City, it was difficult for them to comprehend. One year later, we are doing several activities in the classrooms designed to honor the true heroes in our country and to celebrate how fortunate we are to live in such a wonderful country. I still think about the people who had to endure the terror firsthand on that day. My faith has grown stronger since this tragedy happened. I hope that as Americans we may remember what it takes to be true heroes in this world for the short time that we live here. 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 story1846.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 11,2001 started out just like any normal day to everyone in the medical records department of Toccoa Clinic in my hometown of Toccoa, Georgia. I remember I walked into the records room not expecting anything unusual to happen. We had a small boombox radio sitting on a shelf above the counter. I had just come back from one of the other departments, and when I walked in my entire department was gathered around that small boombox. I asked them what was going on. One of them said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I was astonished, but the thought of it being a terroristic act didn't cross my mind. I just thought it was probably an accident. Maybe the pilot had passed out or something. Anything could have caused that. When the second plane hit, we knew this was no accident. Then we heard about the plane hitting the Pentagon. Complete fear and silence overwhelmed our entire department. We went across the hall into our breakroom, which had a tiny black and white fuzzy television. There were about 20 of us gathered around that small television. Our work just came to a halt. One lady who worked with me almost had a panic attack when the rumor came that they were about to bomb the entire city of Washington D.C. Her sister was employed there, so she ran out to go home to be with her family. Luckily, our American heroes stopped them just in time. Another girl in our department had a fit also when they closed down the entire city of Atlanta, because her newlywed husband was working on a building in Atlanta. I remember all day long, on tv, they showed the planes crashing into the towers over and over again. All I could think of was how many lives were lost, how many unsuspecting people on a normal business day lost their lives just by going to work. Today, I'm constantly reminded of the heroes of 9/11, the policemen, the brave employees who lost their lives getting other coworkers out of the building, and of the firefighters. My husband is a volunteer firefighter and I pray everyday that he will never get a call that will take his life. Being a newlywed and an expectant mother, my heart especially goes out to those women who were pregnant and who had their babies without the father present. My heart goes out to everyone who lost a mother, a father, a husband, a wife, a son, a daughter, or a friend. 9/11 is a day we will never forget, and it will always be in our minds and our hearts 10, 15, and even 100 years from now. It will be in our children's history books. Just as I asked my great grandmother what she remembers about the sinking of the Titanic, I know the day will come when my grandchildren will ask me of my memories of 9/11. I will be anxious to tell them that it was the one day and the one event that brought a nation that was slowly being torn apart together. 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 story6618.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-12 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 162.40.195.159 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: September 11 is my parents anniversay. they were married on that day in 1954!. I went to work and heard the news first at the hospital while I was on the way to the clinic. Details were very fuzzy....but by the time I reached the clinic nearby, the second plane was hitting the WTC. I felt an overwhelming sense to be with my children, even though we were miles away from the attacks. I couldn't believe the creuely and inhumane acts perpetrated by the terrorists in the name of religion. What a lame excuse! We went to my parents that evening and had a very quiet solemn celebration while trying to peace all that madness together. It changed the way we view our lives. I had always felt that life was precious but since that date, I understood how transient things can be. My daughters were 7 years old. One daughter drew a picture of herself running away from the burning WTC. The other daughter said "those people had evilness in their hearts". I felt saddened because I feel my daughters were robbed of some of their innocence. Even sadder for mankind who cannot seem to learn that there is no spiritual advancement by creating or contributing to atrocities against your fellow man. 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 story4691.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 had awakened and turned on the television, while preparing to leave for work in San Jose, and already, one plane had just hit the first World Trade Center. I thought to myself 'What a horrible tragic accident!' As I was commuting on my train to San Jose, I was paged, and I knew that it was from my mother, probably wanting to let me know about the plane hitting the WTC. I returned her call once I got into my office. And she asked if I had heard, and I said, yes, it's terrible. She then stunned me with the news that both towers were down. I could't comprehend what she was saying. A second plane had slammed into the other tower,she said. I just still could not understand. I even said, that's impossible! How could those towers come down?! She kept repeating this a few times, til I realized the World Trade Centers were actually gone... Afterward, I came out to discuss this with some of my coworkers, who had heard all of this already. I was shocked, and then remarked, what about the San Jose Airport, our building was directly under the final approach to the airport. You could look up and practically touch the planes approaching the runway. Of course, they then told me that all planes had been grounded in the United States. It then hit me, that this was a major event occurring in our lives. My job at the time was as a customer service representative for a major utility company and I was working at its call center in San Jose, the calls just stopped coming in. Our customers' lives had also come to a standstill. Periodically, I would enter the break room and quietly watched the TV and all the unfolding horrors. There then a company announcement to all of us that the FAA reported that one more jet airliner was making it's way to the San Jose Airport and to assure us that all safety precautions were being taken; that this plane was being escorted by our Air Force. It was approaching in 20 minutes and that to be aware the situation was under control. I had emailed a few co workers in other cities in Northern California, and we basically formed a comfort zone with our emails to each other. It helped us through a very long sad workday. My trip home on the train, was one of much reflection, heartbroken, and sad. Saying prayers to help those who were in desperate need of it, I just wanted to go home, be with my family and wonder how in the world, when the sun rose again, were we to carry on... 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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 husband and I usually get a ride to work. That day, we took the subway together. As he kissed me goodbye at his station, I thought how lucky I am, I love him so much. I remember praying that everyone in that subway car should have a wonderful day. I was so happy. It was a beautiful day. I always have my camera with me, amatuer photographer and I wanted to take picture on Lispenard Street. When I got out of the subway on Canal Street I heard this loud noise, but thought nothing of it. I'm a typical New Yorker. When I got to the corner, people were running to stand there. I asked this young man what had happened and he turned to me with these large eyes and said in disbelief that a plane had crashed into the Twin Towers. I started shooting. I ran to the next corner and starting shooting again, as I looked through my view finder, the second tower exploded. We were north of the buildings and didn't know it was the second plane. I knew I had to call my husband. I found a payphone and I told him I would call him when I got to my office (about 6 blocks from the Trade Center). Once I hung up, I started photographing the people around me. One man said to me that this was no accident. Two co workers approached me and said that our building (388 Greenwich Street) had been evacuated. We started to make our way uptown and I tried several payphones without success to reach my husband again. We walked to my co-workers apartment on Bleecker street where I called my mom and sister. Back out on the street I started to walk uptown on 6th Avenue. A woman bus driver on 14th Street was screaming to everyone to get on her bus. We all climbed on and she barreled up 6th. We stopped once at 23rd street to block traffic to let another bus load passengers. A Coca Cola truck stopped to pick up a young lady in a suit with a briefcase and no shoes. They just lifted her up and put her in the truck. We were on 23rd street. Then the first tower fell. Everyone started screaming and crying. I never felt so vunerable. I don't remember the rest of the bus ride to 46 Street but I do remember passengers sharing cell phone (they didn't work), passing out tissues and consoling each other. When I got to my husband building, the US Trust Building on 47th Street, I could barely speak. I made the security guard Tom,. call him to tell him I was on my way up. When I reached him, I jsut started crying. Once I calmed down, I started calling everyone I knew to let them know we were safe and to see if they were. We walked uptown to our apartment on 83 Street and York Avenue many hours later. We walked through Central Park, passed the sail boat pond where there were children playing and ducks swimming. It was as if nothing happened. The city was deathly quite except for the sound of the fighter jets flying above our heads. All of my family and friends are safe. I thank God everyday. Be well. Be strong. God Bless America. Barbara & Hans Kobelt New York City 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 story2975.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: Text from e-mail I wrote to family and friends on Thursday, September 13. As you all should know by now, I was able to narrowly escape the tragedy that unfolded before my eyes at the World Trade Center this past Tuesday. This has been my first opportunity to check my e-mail since the disaster happened and I am touched that so many people were concerned about my safety and wellbeing. Fortunately, many in the family did not know at the time that I was doing an internship in the World Trade Center; this proved to be a blessing as I'm sure more would have been concerned had they known that I was working directly at ground zero that day. I normally attended my internship at the World Trade Center on Wedensdays and Fridays. However, this Tuesday my boss asked me to come in for 9 a.m. to do some work as I had asked for the rest of the week off in order to go to D.C. to take the written section of the Foreign Service Exam. On Tuesday morning I initially got on the wrong train into Manhattan and because of this I was about 15 minutes behind schedule as I arrived at the subway stop for the World Trade Center - almost exactly at 9 am. As I climbed out of the subway I noticed everyone craning there necks upwards and as I looked up I saw the side of the North Tower on fire. Unbeknownst to me at the time, this was only a few minutes after the first American flight had crashed into the North Tower. (For those of you who know New York City, at this point I was standing on the corner of Fulton and Broadway, only two blocks from the World Trade Center.) At first I had no idea what had happened. Then a few bystanders explained that a 'small' plane had hit the building. I didn't believe them because I didn't think it was possible. No one is supposed to fly even near those buildings. As I watched the fire got worse. Sirens wailed and yet I wondered how the firecrews could possibly get up that high to do anything. The fire began to spread more and more quickly and I soon realized that this would be catastrophic. Parts of the building started to fall off and then the worst thing I have ever seen in my entire life, people jumping, one by one, you could seem them clearly, dressed in their business suits, falling and jumping from so high up, flailing their arms, clearly still alive, yet falling, it seemed almost like they were floating because they were so high up and it took them so long to fall. Everyone on the street felt so helpless but there was nothing that we could do. I saw at least 20 people jump. Then suddenly, an unbelievable explosion that shook the street and everything around us. I was looking right at the North and South Towers when it happened. The United plane came from a northernly direction but we were standing to the southeast of the Towers, and so we didn't see the plane coming at all; from our vantage point it came from directly behind the South Tower. Suddenly the plane impacted; we had heard no warning, no sound of jet engines, nothing. I don't know if this was because of other noise going on around us or due to some other as yet unexplained reason, but the fact of the matter is we had no warning. As soon as the plane hit there was an explosion like nothing I have ever seen and we all took off running. It was complete chaos. I was worried about flying shrapnel or other debris landing on me. There was complete chaos as everyone ran northwards past City Hall. At this point I believed that it was a bomb that had just exploded and I was concerned about possible chemical or biological agents in the air. As I was frantically running, out of sheer coincidence I saw a friend of mine who also works in the World Trade Center. She was running hysterically and I grabbed her and we both ran into a building to try to look for shelter and a phone. No cellular phones were working anywhere in the city at this point and everyone was frantically trying to get in touch with family or friends. I managed to get one quick call through to my grandparents house in St.Croix to let them know that I was okay. That was the only call that I could make. My friend and I then went outside and we saw thousands of people streaming across the Brooklyn Bridge into Brooklyn from Manhattan. I thought that there were too many people on the bridge and that if there had been a bomb placed in the World Trade Center then surely there might be one on the Brooklyn Bridge. I decided that I would not cross. I repeatedly tried dialing different numbers on my friend's cell phone but none of the calls would go through. Suddenly, I got through to my friend in Miami and he told me what I couldn't believe: that it had been planes that had been flown into the World Trade Center. This is all he could tell me before the call got disconnected. The friend that I had been with all this time, who I had literally run into while fleeing the carnage a few minutes before, decided that she would try to get uptown to look for some people that she knew. She left and I walked northwards and then westwards, all the while watching the twin towers and wondering if it would even be possible to put the fires out. I got near the West Side Highway and continued to watch along with hundreds of other onlookers. I asked a guy next to me if he knew what exactly had happened. He left for a few minutes, somehow managed to make a call, and then came back to me and whispered, "they just attacked the Pentagon." I asked in disbelief, "What??!!" He repeated himself and then added, "No one knows yet and don't tell them, they'll panic even more." As I stood there in disbelief the fire began to reach it's apex and I saw three more people jump from the upper stories. Then, the sight that no one could ever imagine, what I still can't believe, the South Tower crashing down right before my eyes. Panic again as everyone rushed further uptown, everyone desperately trying to find a way out of Manhattan, but the bridges clogged, subways shut down, and buses not functioning. I ran uptown a few more blocks to what I felt was a safe distance and then headed eastwards, again parallel to the Towers yet now a much safer distance away, perhaps 10 blocks or so north. I knew Tower 2 had just collapsed and I could see that the upper half of Tower 1 was almost completely engulfed in flames, but I never thought that it too would fall. And then it did, just toppling over on top of itself. It was the final unbelievable culmination of an utterly unreal day. I didn't know where to go and I wandered around for some time, the streets filled with desperate people, all distraught and dazed in disbelief. Then I stepped inside a nearby bar and found that it was packed even though it was not yet even 11 in the morning. Everyone, people from every part of the city and every profession, were glued to the news aghast at what they were seeing. Drinks were flying off the shelves as people struggled to find something to soften the harsh realization that this was real, this had happened, this was not a movie, and there was no rewinding the footage and starting over. I appreciate the concern that all of you had and I'm grateful that none of you were in New York City and near the disaster. This has changed everyone everywhere forever and no words will ever be able to convey what happened or how it will affect all of us. Only time will tell. Love, Julian. 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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Move to emails 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 woke up on Tuesday, September 11th at about 6:30 am when my mom opened my bedroom door. I remember being a bit upset with her because I still had 30 minutes of sleep left until I had to get up and get ready for work. She said I should get up and watch the news before I got ready for work. I couldn't believe what I saw on the television. The towers in New York were on fire. I asked my mom what happened and she told me that some people had flown planes into the towers. We heard that a plane hit the Pentagon. We watched the first tower fall. I cried. I cried when my mom left for work. I just wanted to melt into the couch and not leave the house. I didn't want to go to work. And then the second tower fell. And United 93 went down in Pennsylvania. I was in complete shock. How does something like this happen in my country? This is the kind of thing I expected to see happen in the middle east, making the evening news. This didn't happen in my country. I really didn't want to go to work. I don't think I came out of shock until the phone rang again. I worked at the Disneyland Resort at the time. It was my area lead calling to tell me that I didn't have to come in to work because the park would not be opening that day. I knew that if Disneyland wasn't opening, it was a big thing. Not long after the phone call, I realized how quiet it was. No airplanes flying overhead towards Long Beach Airport. I sat glued to the television all day and I cried. I still get choked up just thinking about 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 story20616.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: That day started as any other day would have except the telephone rang and it was my best friend Debbie Chandler. I home school my grandson Joshua and everyone knows not to call until after 3:00 P.M. So when the phone rang i knew something wasn't right. When I answered the phone Debbie cried out for me to start praying for the people and our country, she said that we had been attacked and that we had to get before God and we didn't have time to waste that peoples life's depended upon it. I turned the television on, and what I saw made me cry. I called my grandson into the living room and ask him to pray with me. We prayed for peoples life's and for the families that were losing there love one's and then we prayed for our President. I cried and prayed the rest of the day, and am still crying for those who lost family. I know how it feels to lose someone suddenly and through the hands of someone else. This Sept.11,2002 I watched a special on television showing all the babies born to those who had died that day. It was another night of crying, but there was a difference this time, I watched God's rewards for He said the fruit of the womb was His reward. The theif slipped by and stole from us, but thank God for His rewards and giving us new life. Sept.11,2001 happening brought about something I thought I would never see. Members of our government stood on government steps and sang "GOD BLESS AMERICA". I thank God for President Bush and for having a God believing President and one who knew how to pray and to turn to God for divine wisdom. I pray that he will continue to do so. A CHILD OF GOD ALMIGHT SARA HARDY TRANTHAM 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 story7291.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 remember walking out of Chemistry at about 10 am and my friend Amanda telling me that the Pentagon got bombed. I didn't really believe her and did not know how serious the situation was. Then I walked to my Spanish class and we all sat in horror as we saw what was happening. I was so shocked and scared. The first thing that came to mind was "I hope the people who did this don't claim to be Muslim" because I am Muslim. I remember when the Oklahoma City bombing happened everyone blamed Muslims and so many hate crimes happened towards Muslims when in fact a White Christian from Michigan was the one behind the bombing. I didn't want to see how bad things would get if the attacks were by a person claiming to be Muslim, and i say claiming because anyone who would do something like this is in no way a Muslim. As I watched the TV they showed someone jumping out of the window. I had to try really hard not to cry. it was all so devistating and depressing. For the next 2 class hours all we did was watch the news in complete silence. The hallways were very quiet. I remember hearing a group of senior boys asking eachother who there was 18 because they were all worried about being drafted. I remember I had to stay after school for an hour for some activity. When i came home there were 5 messages on the answering machine. All of them were from my parents. They were really worried and kept calling to see where i was and to call them immediately. I called my dad first and he was so serious and quiet. He asked what took me so long to get home and if i was okay. I told him i was fine and was shocked to hear what he said next. He told me that i shouldn't leave the house unless i absolutely had to. I didn't completely understand why- I hadn't done anything wrong, but he told me how right now there was a lot of animosity towards muslims. At work people had been giving him dirty looks when he walked by and then they would start whispering about him. My dad was extremely worried about my older sister Anika who wears hijab (covers her hair with a scarf) and was currently at Michigan State University. THe hijab was just screaming "Hi, I'm a Muslim" and that wasn't something you wanted to be screaming at that time. I kept calling Anika on her cell phone to tell her that dad wanted her to keep a low profile and to come home as soon as possible. I couldn't believe all this was happening. At home all i did was watch the news. I became very angry when the US starting bombing Afghanistan. To me it seemed that the US was just looking for someone to blame and punish to comfort the American people. The people of Afghanistan had done nothing. Only a little organization in Afghnistan was believed to have done something. I couldn't understand how after so many innocent live had been taken in the US, the US could just go and take some more from Afghanistan. That night my family got a phone call from a family friend telling us that the house of a muslim family we know got shot at. I couldn't believe this. I had grown up with a daughter from this family and was so terrified for her. It turned out that some people drove by our Mosque and shot at it. Missing the mosque, the bullet hit my friends house which is right by the mosque. my friends dad was laying on his bed and the bullet flew right over his face. September 11 filled me mainly with with three emotions: hate, anger, greif. I hated the people who caused all this, i was angry that i could feel scared to go to school in a country that i was born and raised in and i was greiving for all the people who died and their family. 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 story2456.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 preparing for my first class of the day when one of the other staff members came running into the teacher's room saying that an airplane accident had occurred at the world trade center. She turned on the television, and we watched in horror as we saw the first airplane hit one of the buildings. Immediately I told the others in the teachers' room that it wasn't an accident and walked upstairs to teach. I felt as if someone had punched me in the stomach. My thoughts jumbled through my head as I struggled to teach. The students quickly saw my distress but I couldn't bring myself to tell them. I vaguely told them that my mind was on lots of things. Approximately 15 minutes later, the principal began to announce the names of students over the loudspeaker and told them to go to the office with their bookbags because they were going home. I, as well as other support teachers, went downstairs and began taking names from parents in the cafeteria because they no longer fit in the office and brought students down. The rest of the time was spent going up and down to get the students. Some parents worked in the WTC or near that area. They were covered in soot and visibly shaken. The younger students couldn't understand what was going on and a few wanted to remain in school. I called my mom who takes care of my 2 young sons and spoke to her. However, I was unable to reach my mother-in-law who used to frequent Century 21 located near the WTC and panic set in. People began calling on their cell phones and were unable to communicate because the system was deluged with phone calls. It wasn't until after 6 p.m. that I was able to breathe easier--my relatives were safe and sound. In school, I went back to my room and talked to one of the other teachers. From that side of the building we had always been able to see the WTC, so we saw the huge black clouds of smoke. Suddenly, my husband, who had been volunteering at the school until he found a job, came in and told us that the building had collapsed. (Once he found a job, he continued to volunteer on his day off.) We looked up in total dismay to see just the cloud of smoke billowing. My cousin was going to work near the WTC collapsed. He related his harrowing experiences and my skin developed goose bumps as I began to cry. Apparently, an older man told him, "Don't go that way....return the way you came." The old man told him "move you need to keep moving. As they both began to move, the old man was now where my cousin was standing. The debris fell on him, and killed him. My cousin described him as his guardian angel because this man, not only told him to move but had said to him "God Bless you my son, you've got to move!" My cousin ended up walking to the Bronx covered in soot and blood. He said that he was so upset that by the time he got to one of the bridges that crosses over from Manhattan to the Bronx he had bought a bottle of liquor. A policeman saw him and didn't say anything because he realized where my cousin had come from. For a long time after September 11th, I spent sleepless nights and cried. At school, I had to remain composed and maintain normalcy for my students. At home, however, watching the coverage became too difficult. Gradually, the sadness has lessened and the fears diminished but it hasn't completely disappeared. 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