286 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 got up as usual and went to my Ear Training class in the music building... along with my roommate. Our professor came in a few minutes late and just sat on his desk and looked at us. Then he said "I can't teach like this." None of us knew what had happened, so he told us that a plane had hit the first tower. We immediately went back to our room to turn on CNN and just as the picture came in we saw the second plane hit. None of our classes were officially cancelled, but no one went anyway. Everyone on my floor crowded into our room and sat on my bed with a box of Kleenex and watched CNN and other various news channels for most of the day. It's erie to me that even though this year I am at an entirely different school in a different state, I am in the same class at the same time as I was on September 11th 2001. But the thing I will forever remember, and something I think everyone should have heard is what an international student said as all us girls were crowded on my bed holding hands. She is from Sri Lanka, and she told us "I left my country to come here. I came here to learn. But mostly, I came here to escape terrorism - I came here to escape things like this. I wonder now if I made the right choice." The families of those affected, our nation, our leaders, and the world are forever in my prayers. God Bless you. 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 story9812.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: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. "YOU NEVER APPRECIATE SOMETHING UNTIL IT'S GONE". I HAVE LIVED IN READING, PA. AND VICINITY FOR SOME TIME. HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR NEW YORK CITY, I PROBABLY WOULD NOT BE HERE. ORIGINALLY FROM MICHIGAN, I FIRST SET FOOT IN MANHATTAN ON JUNE 5, 1986. AND WHERE DO YOU SUPPOSE, AS IT HAPPENS, THAT I CHOOSE TO SET FOOT IN THE CITY FOR THE FIRST TIME?? YOU GUESSED IT. MY FIRST CONTACT WITH THE STREETS OF MANHATTAN WAS MADE VIA THE HUDSON TUBES, (PATH), AND THE TERMINAL AND CONCOURSES OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER!!! AS I RECALL, I FIRST SET FOOT ONTO THE STREETS OF MANHATTAN FROM THE NORTH SIDE OF THE CONCOURSE, ONTO VESEY STREET, POSSIBLY BENEATH #5 WORLD TRADE. OF COURSE I COULD HARDLY APPRECIATE THE TRADE CENTER, AS I WAS THERE PRIMARILY FOR THOSE CRAZY STATUE OF LIBERTY EVENTS, "LIBERTY WEEKEND", WHICH WAS A MONTH LATER. I DECIDED VERY QUICKLY THAT I WANTED TO LIVE IN OR AT LEAST NEAR, NEW YORK CITY. AND SO IT WAS THAT FROM 1986 TO 1993, I CONTINUED, ON AND OFF, TO KEEP COMING BACK AND TRYING TO ESTABLISH MYSELF IN THE AREA. IT JUST WOULDN'T WORK!!! SO I FINALLY REALIZED IN LATE '93 THAT IT WAS FOOLISH AND DANGEROUS TO KEEP TRYING TO LIVE SO CLOSE IN, AND WAS FORCED TO SETTLE FOR SOMETHING A FEW SHORT HOURS AWAY. I WOUND UP HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA, AND THIS DIDN'T WORK TOO WELL AT FIRST EITHER, SO I WAS AWAY FROM HERE FOR A TIME AS WELL, BUT SINCE LATE '93 WHEN I FIRST ARRIVED HERE I HAVE CONTINUED TO MAKE OCCASIONAL TRIPS BACK TO NYC. THE LAST TIME I CAN REMEMBER BEING AT THE TWIN TOWERS WAS IN LATE 1997!!! SO AS FAR AS MEMORY TELLS ME, AND I MAY HAVE BEEN THERE FOR SOME REASON MORE RECENTLY, BUT JUST CANNOT RECALL, ALL MY EXPERIENCE AT THE WTC SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN BETWEEN JUNE 1986 AND LATE 1997. IN '86 AND '93, I WENT TO THE TOP, THE OBSERVATION DECK. IN '86 FOR SURE, AND POSSIBLY IN '93, I EVEN WENT TO THE ROOFTOP!!! BACK IN '87, I WAS ON ONE OF THE TENANT FLOORS IN ONE OF THE TOWERS, MAYBE A FLOOR IN THE 40S. I HAVE USED THE PATH AND SUBWAY STATIONS THERE NUMEROUS TIMES, AND HAVE PASSED THROUGH THE MALL AND CONCOURSES MANY TIMES. I'VE BEEN IN THE LOBBY OF THE MARRIOT HOTEL (3 WTC), AT LEAST ONCE, THANK GOD, AS I WAS THERE TO GET PAPERWORK ON THAT HOTEL!!! THANK GOD I STILL HAVE THAT AND A FEW OTHER OLD THINGS FROM THE TRADE CENTER!!! I AM NOW FRANTICALLY TRYING TO PROCUR AS MANY WTC THINGS AS I CAN FIND, ESPECIALLY PRE-DISASTER ITEMS!!! NOW I FIRST SET FOOT HERE IN READING, PA. PROPER, IN APRIL OF 1994. I COULD NEVER HAVE DREAMED THAT I WOULD WIND UP LIVING HERE LIKE THIS, AND I CERTAINLY WOULDN'T HAVE IMAGINED THE HORRORS THAT HAVE BEFALLEN SINCE LATE IN THE YEAR 2000!!! I HAVE BEEN BACK IN READING ALMOST CONTINUOUS SINCE APRIL '97, BUT IN NOV. 2000, MY OWN "9-11" BEGAN, AND IT LASTED EIGHT MONTHS, UNTIL MID- JULY OF 2001. I'M STILL REELING FROM THAT NIGHTMARE!!! THEN JUST TWO MONTHS LATER IN EARLY SEPTEMBER, THIS OTHER BULL "HIT THE FAN" AND I'VE CONTINUED TO REEL EVEN LONGER AND MORE!!! ON THAT MORNING OF SEPT. 11TH, I HAD JUST RETURNED FROM SCAVENGING SOME STUFF FROM A BUILDING DOWNTOWN THAT WAS BEING REDONE, AND HAD SWITCHED ON THE NEWS AS A MATTER OF ROUTINE. IT WAS 9 A.M. ABC NEWS, PROBABLY DOUG LIMERICK, ON WEEU RADIO. I WAS SITTING THERE WORKING ON THAT STUFF WITH THE NEWS ON WHEN IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT AN AIRCRAFT HAD JUST HIT ONE OF THE TWIN TOWERS AT THE WTC!!! I STARTED GETTING READY TO GO OUT AS FAST AS I COULD GET THINGS DONE, BUT A CALLER TO THE A.M. TALK SHOW JUST SHORTLY AFTER THE NEWS WAS OVER SAID THAT HE THOUGHT ANOTHER PLANE HAD HIT!!! I WENT OUT AND ABOUT TRYING TO SPREAD THE NEWS TO THOSE I KNOW, AND WAS WITH A CASEWORKER FROM A LOCAL AGENCY AT 10 A.M. WHEN WITH MY RADIO ON I HEARD THE HORRIBLE NEWS OF THE FIRST TOWER COLLAPSE!!!! OF COURSE IT WAS A SHORT TIME LATER THAT NEWS OF THE SECOND TOWER COLLAPSE WAS HEARD!!! SO LIFE CHANGED FOREVER FOR ME ON NOV. 13TH 2000, AND AGAIN ON SEPT. 11TH 2001!!! I FIRST WAS ABLE TO REACH GROUND ZERO ON SEPT. 23RD, AND HAVE MADE SOME OTHER TRIPS THERE, AND HOPEFULLY I WILL CONTINUE TO GO. SINCE AT LEAST MID-DECEMBER, I HAVE GONE BY THE NEW PHRASE, "TWIN TOWERS TURKEY"!!! SINCE EARLY APRIL OF 2002, I HAVE ADDED "GROUND ZERO GOBBLER"!!! HOPEFULLY, I WILL SOON HAVE SOME MORE WORLD TRADE CENTER THINGS COLLECTED, AND THEN WILL GET THESE THINGS GATHERED AND CONSOLIDATED, AND THEN I WILL, GOD PERMITTING, CREATE MY OWN MEMORIAL TO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. KERMIT SIMON, THE "TWIN TOWERS TURKEY" AND "GROUND ZERO GOBBLER". 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 story694.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: It was early and I was on my way to my weekly meetings. I was up early and on my way out the door I saw what my son was watching and I honestly thought he was watching "Die Hard" (Bruce Willis action movie) and told him to change the channel. That's when I found out a plane had crashed into the WTC tower. I thought is was an isolated incident and woke my husband up to see the news. It was on my way to work that I heard on the radio of the second crash into the tower, the Pentagon, and the plane crash in Pennsylvania (still unconfirmed as to whether it was related or not). The day's activities seemed so trivial. I can remember watching TV with my coworkers and being stunned. There were no words. I called my husband and we had an unspeakable need to keep our son home from school and just huddle together, thankful we had each other. Then came the days of people waiting for family and friends that would never return. Families with pictures of men and women. The numbness of the reality took days to set in and the fear that followed, after all we weren't all that far from Oklahoma and only 2 years from the Columbine High School shootings. How much can people take. But now a year later, we are still strong, still sad and still numb. We are also a little kinder and, I hope, more aware. I don't take for granted the casual goodbyes in the morning. I tell my husband and son I love them and always take the extra 30 seconds for hugs and kisses. I never turn down the opportunity for romance -- no matter what I might be late for. My priorities have been righted by the terror. Probably not what they had in mind, but I know I am not alone in this and thier attempt to alter our lives has failed. But, while I was effected by this terror, I lost no loved ones and that pain takes years to fade and I hope in years as we read these and the pain recedes that our victory is seen. 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 story5917.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 asleep on my couch when the phone rang.i got up and answerd the phone it was my husband. he told me to turn on the t.v fast. i asked why and he said just do it. and i wish i wouldn't have. because when i did i saw the most heart wrenching thing . the world trade center has been crashed into !by two airplane's no less. the first thing to cross my mind was how could this happen.then all of a sudden they were comeing down falling to the grownd like two clouds of dust and ruble.i saw people runnig being coverd by huge clouds of dust.i saw cheildren crying looking for their parent's. everyone so scared.the look's on their face's was enough to make you cry . i was in tear's . my heart breaking for everyone of them.i then relized that many sole's were lost . everyone of them haveing a personality all there own. hero's in there own right.wishing i was there to help but knowing there wasn't anything i could of done made me feel so helpless.thanking god that my husband and childerin were not there.and wishing i could have takein the place of all the parent's lost to their children or the grandparent's or aunt's uncle's,or brother's sisters,or children lost to their parent's.wishing i could have taken on the pain myself to ease theirs.and then i was angry to those who cared so littile about the perecious life's they took.and the pain they caused.wishing i was in front of them to stand up for our country.or wishing i found them before they hurt so many.but what was devistateing was the fact that those left behind were in for so much pain and there wasn't anything i could to to help heal the hurt.so i turned to god and prayed . paryed that everyone of the wonderful personality's lost and all the hero's lost would forever live on and the one's left behind that god would ease there pain,.and i continoud to do so everyday.one thing i know is this is a wonderful country and i would stand up and fight for it anytime or day.for this country is mine and i will not stand by while someone so eivil,and full of hatered,come's and snatches away the futer generation's of our world,the leader's of our live's the one's who will make life better.so i tell you who tryes to come against my family,friends,or my country beware.for you'll have a hard road to hoe if you do. thank you for the opertunity to tell you how i feel and how much i wish i could have helped.sincerly jennifer walford 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 story5788.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. 65.168.30.33 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: It is too sad to remember but too sad to forget. *tears* Every year I write a poem in Rememberence..... Here is this years poem..... 9/11/2006 May we never forget..... 9/11 God's Blessing! Blessings, Tammy aka Bunny 9/11 by Tammy Hernandez 9/11/2006 No longer!© No longer do I know, the people that are foe.... No longer do I feel, that people can be real... No longer is it good, letting people say they should... No longer is it fine, all these visions in my mind... No longer we can wait, for it may be too late... No longer can we say, 9/11/01 was just another day... 9/11 By Tammy Hernandez 9/11/2002 PEACE!© How could I be at Peace I thought no not ever again.. How could I be at Peace I really can not say when...How could I be at Peace I know not where my love to send... How could I be at Peace my Heart will have to mend...How could I be at Peace the Angels did descend .. How could I be at Peace my hand I reach out to lend...How could I be at Peace my Lord please tell me when...How could I be at Peace I will someday my friends...How could I be at Peace my friends this is the end... 9/11 By Tammy Hernandez 9/11/2003 I REMEMBER!© I remember the day the USA was just in aw. I remember the day our lives were changed for us all. I remember the day we held our LOVED ones close. I remember the day I prayed for the HOLY Ghost. I remember the day my eyes showed fear. I remember the day I shed many tears. I remember the day I wished I did not. I remember the day I wished I forgot. I remember the day that the whole world vowed. I remember the day we said "No Terrorist Allowed". I remember the day alot of flowers came. I remember the day not too many remained. I remember the day when we all held out hope. I remember the day it was very hard to cope. I remember the day we all came together. That is the day I will always remember forever! 9/11 By Tammy Hernandez 9/11/2004 Sending out these Blessings!© I send out these blessings to all that were their.... I send out these blessings to their loved one that shared... I send out these blessings to each one that cared.... I send out these blessings we know it is hard to bear... I send out these blessings but that is the only thing I know how to do... Blessings to you! 9/11 By Tammy Hernandez 9/11/2005© The Tears Fall!© The tears they fall it's been so long...the tears they fall it was so wrong...The tears they fall what did they think....the tears they fall we did not blink....The tears that fall the days fly by...the tears that fall I do know why....The tears that fall we stand together...the tears that fall no matter what the weather...The tears that fall we will not break....the tears that fall for goodness sake....The tears that fall I ask you now....the tears that fall I know not how....The tears that fall it makes me weak....the tears that fall it keeps me meek....The tears that fall their is no end....the tears that fall this luv I send.....The Tears Fall! Please do not use my poems without permission....thanks © 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 story20764.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. 2006-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 67.165.168.57 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 work third shift, and had fallen asleep with the TV on. When I awoke, the first thing I saw was Attack on America across the television screen. It was frightening listening to the newspeople tell the events that were going on. My first thoughts were of my family, and trying to place where they all were, and how I could get us all together if need be. I wasnt really sure yet what all had transpired, as the news stations were relaying different reports. I stayed near the television watching in horror for the most part of the day. And praying to God for all of Americas safety. And thanking God that my family was safe nearby. 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 story6117.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. 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: I got up like every other morning; got the children ready, took them to school, and came back home. I worked the night before. I was so exhausted; so I fell asleep on the couch with the Today Show. I woke up a little after 10:00 a.m. to a world I did not recognize. I was seeing the television, hearing the words -- but completely unable to comprehend that it was real. As silly as this sounds, I didn't believe it. I thought what they were saying was a mistake, a parody, or a very unfunny joke. I thought maybe I had lost it. I live in apartments; so I literally ran to some neighbor's unit. I said, "What is going on?" She told me that the World Trade Centers had collapsed. I still couldn't believe it. I went to another neighbor's house and said the same thing. It was only when a second neighbor repeated the news that it sunk in that these things were really happening, that the situation was real. I immediately grabbed my keys, went to the school, and picked up my children. I felt it wasn't safe for us to be anywhere other than our home. I was afraid, too, that the children would hear about the attack and be frightened. I discovered when I picked them up that they already knew. They were in elementary school and had overheard the teachers whispering. That whole day was so unsettled. Nobody seemed to know what would happen next. I was afraid to take any chances. We left town immediately and went to my father's home in the mountains of North Carolina. I figured we would be safe there since there is literally less than a hundred people in his entire town. I remember the incongruity of that weekend: standing in my father's front doorway watching the children play outside on a tire swing on a beautiful sunny warm afternoon while, endlessly, the news spoke of thousands of deaths, of terrible deliberate destruction, of unimaginable pain and loss. It was just too much. I wanted to walk away from the sounds of the television, from the knowledge of what we were all facing; but I couldn't stop listening, fearful that there would be another threat. I kept looking up at the sky, too: it was the first time in my entire life that I knew there were no airplanes in the skies above it. September 11, 2001 was the first day of a new 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 story10525.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. 2004-04-05 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 205.188.116.7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I am only 23 years old and I remember driving to work and hearing all this alarm on the radio and me being young thought nothing of it until I really listened and then I got goose bumps. I did not ever in my lifetime I would see such tragidy and I live thousands of miles away and it still touched me. I found out that a girl I went to high school with lost her sister there. I may not have been great friends with her but I knew her and that was good enough. I came home that night and just kissed and loved my children. I try to live life like it is my last day here and I have nothing more to do but live it the best I can. I hope this never happens again and I think we all need to take a step back and look at the world and make it better. We are destroying our lives. 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 story1699.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: " There's a power inside you, there's a battle to be one, and every victory is a begginng the way they always have begun...with the power of one. One day, you'll realize that, one hope is all you need. One dream that we can all share, one dream we all believe. Would you make that sarifice, if you knew that it was right? well the answers here if you look inside. Would you run and hide or would you fight the fight?" O-Town, One Heart "never start a paragrah or paper with a quote" my teacher always tells me, today for this it seemed aprropreate. this song has new meaning to me now. One of my favorite songs be one of my favorite groups became both an insperation and a hope through these past days. The account of my day is niether sad nor spectacluar, but it is rather about what happened to me. on September 11, 2001 how my life changed with the world's im 15 years old and am writing from California. the strange waves of events started in my house. i had no account of any of this happening for at least 3 hours. i went to school, me as a 14 year old sophmore, knowing nothing until i was at my locker on my way to 1st period at about 8:15 or so. as soon as i heard, events earlier that morning were embeded in my mind. among were the song and clip of a music video i watched in the moring, and what class i had 0 period. the weather ironically was a metaophor in a way. it was dark and cloudy, the darkest it ever was all year. Time seemed to stand still as i found out. i hadn't seen any images until 3rd period at 9:15., it was the first time. i couldn't belive what was hapening. fear spread over me, and i almost broke down crying as i watched the planes hit over and over. most of the day is blur to me now, classes, but i remember what shows i watched, as though it was yesterday. what lines they said that stood out and what i said to certain people. Normally wild and happy teens at lunch me friends and i stat quietly and talked. i found it better when i talked about what was going, my fears and hopes. i was so worried and afraid that night i had to listen to poeple talking. i wanted to know what went on at every minute. i know that for me and my generation we'll remember everything about that day. parts are blurry, but others arn't. i can't believe it's been a year. it seems to have gone by so fast. Tonight i plan to light a candle at 7:00 the same time as on Friday Sept. 14 in memory. as life goes on, i will forget many things. but i believe that the images and thoughts will stay in my mind forever. i know i still haevn't gotten over it because as i watched TV today after school i felt chills up and down my spine and the sadness returning. i believe that will happen for years to come. Setember 11 2001, during a day for tradigy, hope rises My account is in Mermory of all the victims od Setember 11, dead and alive. 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 story4855.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 part of my daily routine in preparing for work I always have the radio on the Tom Joyner morning show and the TV on Good Morning America, mute. I happened to come back into the room where the TV was when I saw the plane hit the tower. Shocked by what I'd just seen I stood there stairing in disbelief. Not until I arrived at work and other co-workers were watching the television in the confrence room did I finally realize what had happened. Although I had no friends or relatives there I was very emotional. To this day I can not understand how someone anyone could do such a terrible thing to total strangers, children people that had caused them no harm or danger. May God be with us all. My prayers are will each person effected by this tragedy. 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 story2987.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: Jason Liggett It was a quite normal day at school until 2 minutes after the tower was hit my teachers were talking about it not knowing the extent of the damage they did not care much for it until the second plane hit then they knew that something was up and then the pentagon was hit that is when everything went dead quite not a word in the class most of my friends in schools parents work there it was quite real. Alot of my firends had tears just knowing one of there family members could of been there every one used pay phones and cell phones to get a hold of there parents. I called my mom and i didnt get a word out before she said one of her friends was on her way to pick us up from school. Me and my sister waited for her to get there she showed up it was crazy around her I dont no if any of you guys have been in the Mount Vernon area it is close to the pentagon traffic was terrible there were ambulence driving by and swat trucks it was like war was in or back door. I leave on an army base they had guns bomb sniffing dogs the security was really high tec i stayed at my moms friends house until she got 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 story7738.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 foget that day i was @ work when 1 of my co workers came in and said a plane ran into the twin towers i thought it was an accident but then when the 2 one hit i knew we were under attack! the 1st thing i thought about was my familiy knowing they was alright i just had to speak to 1 of them and then all of sudden it hit me that my best friend just got a hostess job in windows of the world and was supposed to be getting married there in 2 weeks. i never been so frightened in all of my life i called her house and got no answer i cried for her and her family like a baby. but i reached her about 1/2 hour later she went to get her children from school! i was able to talk to all of my family and they were all safe. but my story does not end there! I'm a nurse by profession and I'm a nurse in the army reserves. I also was able to see the twin towers burn from the 10th floor @ work. that day when my shift was over @ 3pm i found myself unable to get home. all the highways were closed we were under tight security! then i turned on my car radio and they were asking fo volunters. this was my calling.i was let on the highway by the police with my military id i drove to chelsea pier but they had enough voluteers there they asked if we would go down to ground zero. to wait an treat the people that would be pulled out! but my life forever changed that night no injured people came out we just treated a couple of fireman and rescue workers for smoke inhalation and was sent home about 12 midnight when we left we were all strangers doctors nurses etc black white asian christian muslim jewish but we were all family and i will never forget that day and the terror the strenth the love and the healing! 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: Images from that day. I came out of the subway to the street 3 blocks up from the Trade Center, hearing announcements that there as an explosion in the Towers. As I came up from the subway stairs I immediately saw the gaping flaming black hole in the North Tower. People on the street were caught dead in their tracks, just staring up at it. It was a total disconnect. From everyone: ?My GOD, I can?t believe it, I can?t believe it?. Nobody could tell me what happened. I found out only later it was minutes after the second plane hit the south Tower. Almost immediately, I tried to get on a phone and tell Mala I was OK, tell her what I was looking at. It seems like she had the same idea and I couldn?t get through to her. I remember sirens and watching these fire trucks racing by me all converging on the site as I crossed the street. I see these guys? faces hanging on to those trucks. You knew there were people in those buildings, and you knew it had to be a horror show in there. But you couldn?t really digest it at that time. you felt like an observer watching this horrible thing unfold. In the midst of all that horror people are still people. I made it to my office, which literally sat in the shadow of the towers? and yet with all that going on the majority of my fellow workers were waiting for someone to tell them to go home. It wasn?t until the first tower fell that they actually left. They were lucky. One block away I am sure there were too many people who would be alive today if they just said ?Fck this, I?m getting out of here right now?. I didn?t wait, I left, I just didn?t feel comfortable in that building. I had a moment of indecision where as I left the building, I momentarily thought of walking a block over to the complex and get a better look? but a voice in my head (probably Mala?s) told me I was crazy and I made the right decision. If I was my typical self at that moment, I wouldn?t be here writing about it. One block away I was heading back to the subway again gazing up at both towers . The top floors were at that point engulfed in flames. People were taking pictures. Never a thought until the moment that it happened that they would come down. The South Tower, standing right in front of me, 2 blocks south, without any warning just began to crumble. I heard a loud cracking, crumpling sound that echoed through the streets and saw the Tower turn into dust, vaporizing as it collapsed almost straight down floor by floor. I like everyone else stood mesmerized for a time, until I snapped out of and saw that 20 story cloud of dust and debris racing up the street. With police on the street yelling, ?RUN?, I ran heading uptown. I cut over east 1 block hoping to get some protection from a cross street, only to run into the same cloud coming up that street. It was pure survival instincts, no time to think about it, just run. I describe it as a scene out of a Godzilla movie, where you are trying to outrun Godzilla who is right on your tail looming 20 stories above you. I was afraid to look over my shoulder to see how close it was. People running along me were crying. Eventually, heading due north I did out run it. The wind luckily for me and the rest of the city was blowing the cloud to the east. Somewhere around Houston Street in the village I watched with equal surprise as the North Tower collapsed. ? I think that tower is leaning a bit??, I was telling someone, then just like that it collapsed. The City that day was like the day the Earth stood still. The is my best description for it. If the end of the world ever comes, meteor, nuclear war, whatever ?.9/11 was a full-blown dress rehearsal. Everyone was out on the streets from downtown to midtown. People were just milling around in a state of shock. It was better to be out on the streets, with each other. The city suddenly became like a very small town. Someone on the street saw that I was looking for a phone and immediately lent me his wireless from his apartment. I finally got in touch with Mala, who after seeing downtown engulfed in flames, thought I was dead. I could understand that, I thought that everyone I left in my office an hour earlier was dead also? A very strange day. Later on in the afternoon I stood on West Street down by the river somewhere around 14th street, with crowds of people just gazing downtown at the cloud of smoke. Two things? First, the void in the skyline, you just couldn?t get a handle on it (still can?t)? Second, it was such a picture perfect beautiful day?crystal clear blue skies not a cloud in the sky, perfect late summer/early fall temperature, you couldn?t ask for a nicer day. The year of 09/11 has past? I heard someone (a witness to 9/11) say on the news that before 9/11 he never really felt that horrible things could happen to him and after seeing the towers fall he realized it could happen to anyone, anytime. I believe that sums it up pretty well. When I think of that that flaming hole in the tower I gazed at I think of it as a hole that ripped reality right open for a while. What was in that twisted blackness was literally like a window into Hell. The Towers and the complex of buildings and space around them were a world unto themselves. The complex was a city; it was flowing with people, stores, entertainment, etc. If I close my eyes now I can instantly take a walking tour through all of the corridors, stairways, bridges, and buildings that comprised it. I see the places I went shopping in, the people behind the counters. I can stand in the plaza outside and get vertigo staring up at the top of the towers. I am always pretty aware of the architecture of the city around me, and there were a number of places, on the streets surrounding the Trade Center, that I would almost always admire and gawk at like a tourist as I walked through and around them. I would think ? this is amazing, this is, this is New York?; I had this sense of being lucky to be able to be there and part of it all. The summer, perhaps a month previous to 9/11, I decided to go shopping for a book at Borders Books (5 World Trade) at lunch. For the first time in a long time I decided to walk over to the WTC plaza and see if I could find a place to sit down and read, grab something to eat. I hadn?t been there in a while; the plaza was never my favorite place. Too much concrete, too cold, I thought, Typically I would spend my time in the greener parks down by the river. On this picture perfect sunny day however, I found the plaza had become a much warmer, people friendly place since I was last there. There were a lot of nice food kiosks scattered around, tables, benches chairs, etc?I found a nice place to sit down on that day, and was able to read for a while. It was nice?. I distinctly remember feeling the heat of the sun on my face as it reflected off of the steel of the South Tower. As I was going back to work, I decided that it was a nice place to hang out?.. I should take advantage of it more often? that was the last time I was there .. oh well. I watched that same South Tower crumble before my eyes in about 10 seconds on 9/11. It took about 1 hour for all of that to be obliterated, vaporized, wiped off the face of the earth. One minute it was there, the next it was gone. Physical reality around me became pretty fragile for a time following 9/11. When I was re-located to Sixth Avenue, I was adjacent to Rockefeller Center, another bustling open city plaza. Nice places to stroll around at lunchtime, people watch, sit down. In the middle of this bustling place, full of people, tall buildings, life ? I would get this image of the destruction and ruble of the WTC plaza. This reality was just as fragile as the reality I saw crumble. Occasionally I get irritated when I here it referred to as ?Ground Zero?. It was the World Trade Center, it was not Ground Zero. Actually to be more accurate, now it is the big hole in the ground where the Trade Center formerly stood. People can walk by the site, and easily forget what happened there. I have not quite reached that point yet. I still find myself looking up at the empty sky. There has been a rebirth of sorts, what has happened around the site since is an amazing testament to what man can accomplish. The cleanup, the time period it occurred is truly unbelievable. The life that has crept back into the area this summer is a testament to our resiliency. When I first went back down to the area in December it was like walking thru a war zone. Streets were ripped up and blocked off, stores boarded up, dirt and dust everywhere, the smoke from the still burning pile, and the smell. . Now, except for the steady stream of tourists you have to contend with, you could hardly realize what occurred there. When I look at the site now, I see what isn?t there any more. . I wonder what tourists see there when they visit ?I am sometimes tempted to ask one. A common scene: Families posing in front of ?Ground Zero?. Mom or Dad holding the camera ?.?Smile?? and they always do. Its Disneyland ? It?s amazing. Personally, I believe I have gained a greater appreciation of ?life?, a better sense of what is important vs what is not. Don?t put things off; if its a beautiful day get out and enjoy it, take that cruise you been thinking of; get in touch with that old friend before its too late. On paper it sounds trite like a list of platitudes from a feel good book, however getting past that, I think they are words you can live by. Life goes on and that?s good. 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 story6246.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 10th I supervised movers to pack up my temporary apartment in Boston and move it to Birmingham, Alabama. After they were gone, I got in my car and drove to DC. I had lived there until that May, so I was excited to visit again. I spent the night with my sister who had just started law school at American University there a few weeks before. On September 11th, we were planning to grab some breakfast and then go visit campus. My cell phone rang - it was my partner, Jay, calling. He was in Louisiana on business. I gave him a cheery good morning. "Are you watching TV?" he asked abruptly. "Yeah, the weather channel. Why?" "Change the channel. A plane just flew into the World Trade Center." I changed the channel and saw the smoke pouring out of the building. I assumed it was a small plane that hit. Jay was in a rental car with a client listening to it on the radio. As my sister and I watched TV I realized that both towers were on fire - and that two planes had hit. Then they broke in live to say that a plane had hit the Pentagon. My sister's apartment was up on Wisconsin in the NW - so we weren't anywhere near the crash site. But it made my blood run cold all the same. I told Jay I would call him back. I called my mother's office in Massachusetts. The receptionist breezily told me she was away from her desk. I remember getting a little loud with her and said, "Find her and bring her to the phone NOW. This is an emergency." My Mom got on the phone. I told that Beth and I were OK, and we would get out of DC if things got any worse. I told her to call the rest of the family to tell them that we were safe. The television kept rattling on about fires on the mall and bombs at the State Department. We watched the White House get evacuated. I had trouble getting in touch with Jay because cell phones were jammed. I called my friend Robb who was a flight attendant with American based in DC and left him a message to see if he was OK. I called my brother who worked in Boston and he was evacuating his building near the Hancock Tower. I wrote in my diary on and off through the day. My partner Jay travels full time for work. We had been living in Boston that summer. He left Sunday night for his trip to Louisiana because he had an early meeting but typically he left on Monday morning early. I realized that he could have been on that flight and I started crying. I thought of my parents who went to San Francisco in September 2000 for my mother's birthday on a similar flight and cried more. I was scared. I was angry. My heart was breaking watching people jump out of windows and run from those falling buildings. It was a very scary, very emotional day. I was enraged at the idea that someone felt that this was an appropriate response to whatever real or imagined grievance with the US. What on Earth could we or any country have ever done to make a human being decide that this was an appropriate response? I know we're not perfect. I know our foreign policy isn't always 100% altruistic. But this? They started playing phone conversations on TV from people on the planes and I started crying more. I called my friends in DC. Robb called me back - he was fine. But he was friendly with the whole flight crew and shocked that these people he knew were gone. I spoke to Jay again at last and he was back at his hotel. I think we ordered Chinese food for delivery. We watched TV for the whole night. On September 12, I left my sister to head to Birmingham. I drove past the Pentagon and started crying again. I drove the whole way to Birmingham that night listening to various NPR stations the whole way. I got to Jay's mother's house late that night. Jay arrived the next morning from Louisiana. I'm glad this website is here to record stories from different people all over the country. 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 story11108.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 am a wife and mother of two sons ages 13 and 10. My husband and I were sitting in our home watching Good Morning America when breaking news came that a plane had hit the 1st tower. I was seeing it with my own eyes but my mind and heart would not let me believe it. I stopped right then and prayed a pray for all the families that would be affected by this horror. In the following hours, my husband and I prayed and leaned on our faith in God to help us process this horrible event. When my children arrived home from school we discussed and prayed, again leaning on our Faith in God to help us thru. May God Bless our great country. 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 story6330.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 was at school just like any normal day we were in are classes, when all the sudden the prinicipal had called my name and asked for me to come to the office. When i got there myy school counslear wanted to speak with me, I went into his office and he told me that they were informed that my grandma had worked in the Pentagon's cafeteria. An then they told me about the planes hitting the World Trade Centers. While he was talking I was thinking "Wait my grandma doesn't work in the Pentagon's cafeteria!" and when I told him he was shocked, because what had happened was my mom called and asked if they new what happened, and she told them that if I Jessica Cornell were to have any problems my grandma worked in the cafeteria at our school. We'll they misunderstood and thought that it was the Pentagons cafeteria. So they sent me back to class, while i was walking back I started to cry because of what had gone on, when i got back everyone asked me why I was crying, before I could tell them the principal had got on the annoucments and told everyone what happened, as everyone started to cry the teachers turned on the T.V. and we watched the 2nd plane hit, at that moment we knew that this wasnt going to be an ordinary day. We wernt sent home early from school but when we got home people were lined up at the gas stations, and trying to get home to there families. I can only remember so much because I was in such shock. What happened that day is a day that I and no one will ever forget! An for any one who reads this and has a friend or family member that was in the attacks, I pray and feel so sorry for what happened to you that day. Because no one knew what was going on. And its sad that innicent people had to go through that! Thank you so much for letting me tell my story. And REST IN PEACE, for everyone that died that day. 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 story1439.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 on September 11, 2001 as if it were any normal work day. Got up the same usual time, drove the same usual streets to my job, and had my usual cup of hot chocolate with a smooth Marlboro Light cigarette a few minutes after getting to work by 8am. By at 8:45 the nation, the world, came to a screeching holt of shock and for a short time misbelief of what was happening. I happened to be walking past a coworker of mine on my way to the restroom when he stopped me and said that a plane just crashed into one of the WTC towers. I instantly thought, "Wow, that is terrible!", but at another moment thought, "Well, that will surely be hard to repair." And from there I walked onward to my destination. Obviously, what I was told was not really sinking in. Only minutes later I heard about the second tower and how they were collapsing. At this time the looks on coworkers faces along with my own I'm sure, were pasted with shock, anger, and teary eyes. We had a small TV in a back office where streams of people were coming in to stand or sit and watch the terror that was happening to NYC. My own feelings were mixed with fear, anger, and the BIG question: Why? I started calling all my close friends and family to just simply say "I love you" and be sure they were okay. I'm sure like myself, many other people in the Detroit area were wondering if terrorism would hit the Renaissance Building in downtown Detroit or the Chrysler Tech Center located north of Detroit. My brother was located in Norfolk, Virginia at the Naval Base and I worried terribly if he was okay. I tried calling him, but got no answer. I do remember thinking over and over, "This is just a bad movie and it will be over soon." Well, unfortunately it wasn't some fictional story displayed on a cinema screen. This was REAL. I can say it really made me see life, the nation, and the world much differently. The area in which I live and work for many days and weeks after the attacks, were so unbelievably quiet. It was so surreal and eery. You could see and feel how the everyday drivers on the streets were caring more for the stranger in the car next to him than ever before. Drivers were more courteous to each other. But I will never forget the looks on people's faces as they try to go on with their daily lives. I've shed a lot of tears over this tragedy and will never forget the day I woke up on Sept. 11th. I don't have any children yet, but I know when I do this will be history I will be sharing with them. My many prayers and blessings to all who were affected by this horrific day in our nation. My many thanks to all the volunteers and firefighters. God Bless America! Jodi 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 story914.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: The New York sky was beautiful in all her light and might. But darkness rather quickly made that September morn look night. A street most of us have traveled down by foot, car, cab, or truck is buried under rubble now - I'm not because of luck. But is it luck to still remain and fear your every step? With my life depending solely on a group of men I've never met? Why is it that some were picked to die and the rest left to weep and mourn? Who makes these fatal choices? He leaves my country torn? And who shall take the blame for this disgusting painful mess? How can they close their eyes to sleep without guilt keeping them from rest? Some say 'why haven't we bombed them yet; made the Middle East a parking lot?' Because that's stooping to their level and guiltless villains we are not. The eagle patiently sharpens his claws and someone will pay for this shit, but more brutality on the innocent just doesn't seem to fit. Let's take our time and plot the course to a peaceful free beyond. Let's all join hands and reconstruct our resolving American bond. For my faith is dwindling quickly if not already gone. Afterall these fascists found a way to strike the Pentagon. You must admit we're pretty weak to not prevent that sneak attack and no future investigations could ever bring our towers back. I still stop in my tracks when I hear a plane up in the sky. In my own little way I pay homage to the thousands of innocent who died. Then suddenly it came to me why the rest of us are still around to fight... it's our duty to stand tall and wave the flag throughout the night. So although you're scared and quite confused about what's wrong, what's right... remember Lady Liberty with her torch held high and bright. A symbol of generosity and the freedoms, which make us strong... a message that we will not be conquered, for this land's where we belong. Written: 9/11/01 By: Sarah-Marie Carpino 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 story4407.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 riding the bus home from a trip to another school for a class in the morning and we had the radio on. I heard what was happening but I didn't really understand it or even believe what was happening. When it was time for history class, we got to watch the news on TV for class. I just was in awe of it all. After school I watched TV for a while, just watching the planes hit and everything over and over again. This continued for a few more days of course. 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 story3212.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. 165.234.189.153 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 sit here on the 1st anniversary, after that horrific day in September, I listen with sorrow and a heavy heart about how all the events unfolded. I remember the shock at how someone could do something so terrible to US the most powerful country in the world. I remember the terror of whom and what was next, was someone I loved going to be a victim, did I know anyone that was on one of those planes or in those buildings? I remember my mother calling to make sure I was at work and not traveling that day and the fear that she most have felt for even the smallest amount of time. I remember looking around our small cafeteria at work and seeing the shock and horror in my coworker?s eyes, I remember feeling the tears swell into my eyes, the silence on the street. I remember the President being a beacon of truth and strength; providing not answers, but assurances that we would redeem ourselves as a nation, we would be safe, we may never be the same, but we would be strong and ALL of us believed him. I remember the sense of unity that we all felt, even months afterwards. What I remember more than anything was the ANGER that we all felt that someone could orchestrate such a horrendous attack on anyone, especially us. How naive and arrogant we all were. Somehow that anger has subsided over the year and many of us are feeling despair and sadness. Well I say the HELL with that I will not be sad today; I will remember with love and honor those men and woman that died for our country. Yes honor, for those people that were once innocent civilians became instant warriors of hope for the World. They are with us all in spirit as we defend ourselves and the World against the most horrific kind of war and terror. The firemen, the policeman, the banker, the secretary, and the defenders of flight 93 that died that day should all be honored in the same manner as war heroes. They are all heroes to me, because their deaths may save the lives of someone I care for dearly. If it weren't for them and our anger about September 11th we could have an even greater disaster. It is horrible that we as a nation and as a people had to suffer such a great loss, but I believe all those lives lost were meant to save ours and that of our loved ones. I am angry that an animal like Osama Bin Laden could do such damage to our lives, but he mistook our strength as a nation. I fear that our complacency as a nation could allow an even greater threat, Saddam Hussein, to bring about the most feared attack upon our land or the defenders of our liberty (our soldiers); a nuclear attack. Please don't forget that anger, I say embrace it, if we don't than there will be another attack and it will be more disastrous than the first and that could take someone you love. I for one will never forget I shall never forgive. God Bless America!! Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story4154.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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