3 20 632 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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Ok everyone, now that I've managed to gather my senses together, here's what happened to me today: I left for work at 8:45am this morning, completely unaware of what had just happened downtown (the first plane crash). I got on an express bus heading downtown a few minutes later, and then a couple of stops later, a bus supervisor got on the bus. He told us all that there had been an explosion at the World Trade Center, and that the bus driver would try to get us as close to downtown as possible, but that it would be very tough. So we continued downtown for a bit, headed over to 2nd ave, and ended up stopping at 42nd st. The bus driver realized that it was pretty foolish to attempt to get down there at that time. So we all got off the bus and proceded in our respective directions. I headed west toward Grand Central Station, and found an available pay phone on the way. I called home to mom and dad, and left a message to let them know I was ok, and to call my fiancee Debbie to let her know I was ok as well. After that, I went down to the subway to attempt to get downtown. My reasoning at that point was to try and see how bad the damage was (perhaps it was just a gas explosion? or something that paniced people in the wake of the bombing in 1993... I just didn't know)... and also to see if I could locate anybody from the company I worked at (TheBeast, a financial software development company). I got downtown about 20 minutes later, and when I got out to the street at the Brooklyn Bridge / City Hall station, it was just pure pandemonium. People were relatively calm, since at that time both buildings were merely on fire. Thousands of people lined the streets on the sidewalks, clearing the path for all of the emergency personnel that were streaming into the area. The Brooklyn Bridge was filled with people walking from Manhattan to Brooklyn. I saw and heard an FBI agent interviewing a group of witnesses on the street to try and gather as much information as he could about what happened. As soon as I confirmed that the building I worked in (1 WTC, 80th floor) was on fire, I headed back to the subway to go back home. This was around 9:35 - ish I'm estimating. Took about 25 minutes to get back uptown, and when I got out of the subway, I heard that the first building (WTC 2) had collapsed. I hurried home so I could start calling more people, get connected to the Internet, etc, to let everyone know that I was ok. Fortunately my DSL connection is still fully operational, so I was able to contact a lot of people I couldn't reach by phone. As I was on the phone with my brother Dave, I saw on live TV, my building, 1 WTC, collapse. I knew that was it. The company I worked for is pretty much gone now, as that was our only office, and all of our equipment was on that floor. I have no idea right now (4:55pm) if anybody in my office survived, or who was there, but I estimate that at least half of the office was occupied, since people usually get in around 8:30 - 9:00am. Sometimes even me, and I even thought about going to work early today because I have jury duty tomorrow (possibly not anymore however). So I'm just thankful that I'm ok, and I'm praying that everybody who I worked with either weren't there or managed to escape before the collapse. Thanks to everybody who has contacted me too... It's very reassuring to know that you are all there to support me and everybody else you might know who might have been affected either here or in D.C. or perhaps even by the air disasters themselves. -- jr September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 9/11/2001 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients friends September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. guyjr@speakeasy.org September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. update 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 email384.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. I hope that this email finds everyone doing well in these troubled times. I spoke with Calvin this morning and it seems that the Fed employees (a few of which are SPP '01) are okay. The building was evacuated and they were fine. I am not sure however if they are okay since the building collapsed many were walking in the vicinity. I just want to keep you posted about events. Michael September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Tue, 11 Sep 2001 13:14:26 -0400 (EDT) September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients scpp@umich.edu September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. Michael Thompson September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. second years... 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 email478.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. I just back from a meeting. Tell me that you are ok....I saw tv. I will check my mail in a few minutes. Esther Dubin, RN Clinical Leader, PCU Sinai Hospital of Baltimore 410-601-6515: pager: 681-0842 edubin@lifebridgehealth.org September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. received 9/11/01 10.02 am September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients Rachel Dubin September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. Esther Dubin September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. RE: my presentation 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 email411.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. One As the soot and dirt and ash rained down, We became one color. As we carried each other down the stairs of the burning building, We became one class. As we lit candles of waiting and hope, We became one generation. As the firefighters and police officers fought their way into the inferno, We became one gender. As we fell to our knees in prayer for strength, We became one faith. As we whispered or shouted words of encouragement, We spoke one language. As we gave our blood in lines a mile long, We became one body. As we mourned together the great loss, We became one family. As we cried tears of grief and loss, We became one soul. As we retell with pride of the sacrifice of heroes, We become one people. We are One color One class One generation One gender One faith One language One body One family One soul One people We are The Power of One. We are United. We are America. This candle was lit on the 11th of September, 2001. Please pass it on to your friends & family so that it may shine all across America. "A candle does nothing by lighting another candle." pass it on if you feel the urge, its wonderful September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 4-30-02 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients Everyone September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. "ONE" A Poem For 9-11 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 email169.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. hi, i am fine. i work in the world trade center (the one that's still up) and was successfully evacuated along with many other people by the time the south tower collapsed. love and talk soon, Kenton September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. tuesday September 11, 2001, 10:23am EST September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients everyone I know September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. Kenton Beerman September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. i am alive and not injured and ok and successfully evacuated from 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 email497.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Dear Neighbors: After today's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, it could be an especially rough period of time for foreign nationals and US citizens who look like they're from another country. It is a good time to check in with and listen to the feelings your Arab, Palestinian and Jewish friends have about the attacks. It would also be a good time to let them know that you will stand behind them and not let their people be attacked. I will be returning home early today and am available to talk. With hope, Drew Kidder [Washington, DC] September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Tuesday, September 11, 2001 10:49 AM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients takomaDCList@studio405.com September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. akidder@takomavillage.org September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Terrorist attacks, keep thinking 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 email518.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. From: xxx Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 02:40:18 EDT To: xxx Subject: Stories re: 9/11 Dear Sarah, I met you tonight in front of the Actors Fund building. I am sending you the Emails I have rec'd - hope this can help I also have "personal" notes to friends/family - let me know... xxx **************************** Rec'd 9/18/01 Friends - I know you're probably tired of reading pieces like this, but give this one a look. It's written by documentary filmmaker and political animal Michael Moore ("ROGER AND ME"). Normally, I agree with his politics, but find him smug and self-involved. (I sent him an e-mail saying just that.) But what he is saying is so important this time. If you think so too, pass it along. Otherwise, just hit delete. Thanks and peace, x Lost in America, Closer to Home 9/19/01 Dear Friends, We have made it to Columbus, Ohio for the night and are staying just a couple of blocks from the state capitol building where Governor Rhodes gave the order on May 4, 1970, to send the National Guard to Kent State. There they opened fire on hundreds of unarmed students, killing four and wounding many others. Few dared to call it a terrorist act committed by the state of Ohio... but, there I go again. Off message! Stay focused on the main themes, Mike: "AMERICA UNITED!" "SMOKE 'EM OUTTA THEIR HOLES, HUNT 'EM DOWN, AND GIT 'EM!" "THE SLEEPING GIANT HAS BEEN AROUSED!" and "REMEMBER THE POSTER IN THE OLD WEST: 'WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE!'" I have a question to all the war hawks out there: When you listen and look at our Commander-in-Chief, do you really think THIS is the guy who is going to kick some major league ass? I'm just asking all you conservative drum beaters out there -- man, you must be *embarrassed* that this is the best we have to offer. I know we are all supposed to be supportive of Mr. Bush, at the moment, but has it dawned on anyone that he is not, in fact, the "president?" I hate to bring up a thorny subject, but this is the man who *lost* the election. He got the *least* number of votes between the two major party candidates. His brother oversaw a rigged vote in Florida. I am so, so sorry to bring this up now, but the tragedy of the past week is EXACTLY the kind of horrible circumstance many Americans feared we'd find ourselves in -- A NATIONAL CRISIS UNDER A LEADER WHO IS NOT THERE BY THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. It is a tribute to the goodwill of the American public that they have rallied behind George W. Bush as best they can, 'cause he and his fake flight jacket is all we got right now in the Oval Office. Someone needs to get in charge and propose some real solutions to bringing the perpetrators to justice and preventing this -- as best as possible -- from happening again. Instead, what we have is Bush speaking like a wind-up doll, mouthing a bunch of nonsense clichés, repeating them over and over and over. But occasionally his batteries run out -- and he goes off on some unintelligible tangent. You can see his handlers desperately trying to cut him off and whisk him away. You watch in awe and you ask the question that none of us even wants to contemplate right now, and that no one will dare to ask, so I might as well take the hit and be the one: THIS is the Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful country on earth? Who amongst you feels secure tonight? What enemy is going to be afraid of *this* guy? Bush keeps calling what we are in "a war." Has anyone told him that the more he keeps using this word, the more HE puts US in jeopardy? A "war" implies that two sides are participating in an action to kill as many of the other side as possible. Bush and the pundits use the word like it's a one-sided deal, like we're going to be the only ones doing the bombing. War means we bomb them, then they bomb us. That's what war is. We strafe Afghanistan, the terrorists drop a canister of chemical weapons in the New York subway. We send in a group of commandos and wipe out a camp of Muslims, they take out the Sears Tower. All of you who are screaming for war: are you prepared to pay the price, to take thousands of more casualties? Because, my big, macho-talking friends,THAT is what this kind of war would be like. America is a complex and open society with a massive and intricate infrastructure that is fragile and vulnerable and susceptible to easy attack and disruption. IT CAN BE BROUGHT DOWN WITH A BOXCUTTER. Let me repeat that: IT CAN BE BROUGHT DOWN -- IT CAN BE BROUGHT TO A TOTAL STANDSTILL -- BY A BOXCUTTER! Nearly a week with no stock market, no commercial television, no professional sports, three days with no planes in the air (for the first time since 1911), no airports open, the country essentially shut down. A week later and the phone lines still don't all work. A boxcutter, folks! Do not be misled into thinking he with the biggest missile is going to win this "war." We will never be able to protect all of us from this kind of terrorism. Back and forth, more buildings bombed, more planes downed, more innocent American lives lost. When does this end? After we have killed every terrorist? When exactly is THAT scheduled to happen? Or is it just when we kill Osama bin Laden, *then* we win the war? Are you serious? We couldn't assassinate Hitler during a massive World War that lasted 6 years! Bush now says this is "a war against the evil people in the world." Oh, really? THAT war! Yeah, we should be able to defeat "evil," oh, sometime in the next millennium or two. Get a grip. "War" is not going to get the justice we demand or make us more safe. You know it and I know it. There is a different way to go, and I will lay it out in a later letter, but to simplify it and put it in a nutshell, it goes like this: One billion people on this planet have no clean drinking water. Two billion have no electricity. Three billion have never made a phone call from their home. We have the money and the people-power to alter ALL of this. We also have the moral imperative to stop supporting repressive regimes and corporations who exploit these people. When we decide to help improve these billions of people's lives, we will pull the rug out from under the terrorists who need those they send to their deaths to be poor and exploited and angry at us. The multi-millionaire bin Laden isn't going to give up HIS life! When all the people in the Middle East have food on the table, a decent home, a good job, and democratic control over their own lives, who among them is going to be convinced to sacrifice his life by crashing into a tall office building? Sure, there will always be those who go insane and kill without reason. The British saw that in a Dunblane schoolyard, we saw it in Oklahoma City. There will always be religious fanatics willing to kill and be killed because they believe God has so ordered them. Ask the families of the assassinated women's clinics' doctors in Buffalo and Florida about those willing to commit evil in the name of religion in America. There IS a way to protect us from further attack, to lift the rest of the world out of its misery, but it requires some smarts and some guts, two things in short supply in Washington these days. After arriving in Columbus, Kathleen and I met up with one of our best friends from Flint, Al Hirvela. Al teaches at Ohio State. He was just the shot in the arm I needed this week. He, Kathleen, I and a bunch of others all used to put out an alternative newspaper in Flint many years ago and we miss being around each other in times like these. We miss being able to talk and try to figure out what it all means -- and what we should be doing about it. Al is a Quaker and a pacifist, and sitting in the Big Boy last night talking to him was the kind of grounding experience I needed after four days on the road. My publisher called two nights ago to ask where I might end up for the evening, as my editor wanted to ship me a copy of my new book, just off the press. This was bittersweet news -- I have dedicated this book to Al, and to think that I would be there when he opened it up and saw his name on that dedication page was indeed a lucky privilege, a cool moment I never expected to have. But the book publisher also gave me this news: They are "delaying" the release of my book due to the events of the past week. No doubt, this book is going to ruffle some feathers, and in light of the attack in New York, the book suddenly gave everyone connected to it (including me) the heebie-jeebies. What a feeling to have in a free country! In a way, though, I was relieved with their decision -- I have absolutely ZERO interest in going out on a book tour this week. Even though I have much I would like to say -- opinions and thoughts that are NOT being heard in the media right now -- I just can't go out there and have my name attached to something that is "on sale" (I have asked our webmaster to remove anything from our site that leads one to purchase any of my films, TV shows or books). I am very proud of this book, and I hoped it would stimulate a lot of discussion on various topics. I don't know now when it will come out -- maybe next month, maybe next year. In the meantime, I will continue to communicate on the Web and speak to any media outlet that will listen to --and report uncensored -- what I have to say about the tragic situation in which we are now immersed. I can't believe all the incredible letters you are sending me -- over 41,000 letters in the last week. I am so sorry I cannot respond to each of you. I have scrolled down through the subject headings and read a few of the letters and it is clear I am not alone in my sadness over this tragedy or in the anger I have for what is being proposed by our leaders. I will print these letters and let our elected officials see what the REST of America is thinking about the idea of "war." We are now driving across Ohio toward West Virginia and Pennsylvania. On the radio, NPR is running a history report on Osama bin Laden. We are told that he comes from a wealthy family and that they are the main builders for the Saudi royal family. They've remodeled palaces and built holy sites. Their construction projects are everywhere. Kathleen turns to me, and with one word sums up the kind of low-life we are talking about here. "Contractors," she says. "Bin Laden is a contractor." Indeed, it all made sense. Someone at NPR tracked me down on the road and asked me to stop by the nearest NPR station and read my letters over the air. I agreed, but I got choked up reading them into the microphone. I wonder if they will even broadcast them. I hope they do, as I felt that my reading of them conveyed more of a real and human sense of what I am trying to say and what I am seeing on this drive across America. Later in the evening, my letters go out on an NPR program called "The Connection" from WBUR in Boston. More mail pours in. On the Pennsylvania Turnpike we pass through nearby Shanksville, PA, where the United flight wentdown. The girl at the newsstand counter in the rest stop says it was just three miles down the road." Close enough for all of them to hear it crash. Her voice shakes as she tells me this. A car parked in front of the door has a temporary "Cemetery Pass" sitting on its dash. I think of Barbara Olson, the conservative commentator and wife of the man who argued Bush's case for installation in front of the courts last year. I have been on "Politically Incorrect" with her on a couple of occasions. She was always a warm and friendly person. She was on that plane, on her way to do that show. Monday night, the program went on, and Bill Maher left a chair on the stage empty, in her honor. I agreed with her on nothing, and I cried when I saw that empty chair. She was a human being who deserved to live. She was an American who loved her country. Maybe I should have gotten to know her better, instead of just ignoring her because of her politics. She was a year younger than me... We will make it home to New York, sometime tonight... Yours, Michael Moore mmflint@aol.com www.michaelmoore.com Hey Marty! I got this response back from the Michael Moore letter you sent around few days ago Thought I would pass this back as it takes another slice of our history into account... Moore's words affected me, I felt them somewhat disturbing in the wake of our national tragedy. But I also can understand our rights and freedoms so much more clearly. What our country stands for unitedly, is our ability and constitutional right to say whatever we want, what ever our opinion and not be condemned, imprisoned, shot, or burned at the stake. From Moore's comments, it made me think hard on what I believe - and to ask some questions, of myself, and of others who understand the rights of our great country... Well, I think this is what I wanted to write... Thought provoking is a good thing Hoping this finds you well. I am ok, bit shaken Love, X SUBJECT: Response from M Moore's words by S P Quite a scary outlook. However it still doesn't deal with the fact that we can't do nothing. The terrorist outlook is not going to go away. Right now the trend that seems to be coming from the military is to use special-ops teams, sent to specific locations to deal with the Taliban. Either directly or by targeting them for airstrikes. (One of the things that was largely overlooked by the media following Desert Storm was how many of the so called "smart" bombs were actually guided bombs following a laser track which was placed on target by a special ops team on the ground. (Yes, these things do exist, you just have to pay attention). So maybe that's the answer. Also, the author's explanation of Bin Laden's plans show Bin Laden to be a planner, willing to go any length to achieve his quest for an Islamic world. (Something the Koran teaches, though most contemporary Muslims look at those teachings the way that most contemporary Jews look at the Kosher Dietary laws-out of date and unnecessary. However, that outlook is in the Koran for any fundamentalist Muslim to believe, which brings us back to the inescapable conclusion that Bin Laden will continue to up the ante until either he and his kind win, or we do. In the Crusades of the middle ages, a corrupt and highly zealous Christianity attempted to wrest control of the mid east from Islam. It failed. Now it appears, the shoe is on the other foot. Some Muslims wish to control the West. I don't think you want us to surrender (do you want to wear a veil, be a second class person, be stoned to death for adultery). I don't think we have a great deal of choice. The "stomach" the author refers to is not, I think, for civilian casualties. Rather I think it will be for 10, 15, or more years of small groups hunting the terrorists and their succeeding generations, of ongoing reports of small groups of American soldiers being caught in ambushes and slaughtered, and of body counts of the terrorist dead. I do not make these comments with anticipation, or eagerness. I admit to making them with dread. We will see more strikes against us directly. The path has been chosen by Bin Laden and his ilk, we are merely stuck on it. This is not, I realize, a particularly pleasant outlook. I feel it is an honest one. The authors of both pieces have something in commen-they both chose to ignore the obvious, stick their heads in the sand, and hope it will get better. It won't. Real Estate up here is selling. People are talking of retiring early, moving out the "Line of Fire" and just getting by in Vermont. Interesting huh? S. ****************************************************************************** ************* S, another email I rec'd few days ago... after you note back to me re:Michael Moore's view, I thought this would interest you. Peace, x I found this extremely powerful. In the spirit of peace, let me offer a statement from xxx, an Afghani-American author (primarily of childrens' books) who lives in the Bay Area. Different words, very different perspective: but ultimately much the same sentiment: a search for world peace. Dear Gary and whoever else is on this email thread: I've been hearing a lot of talk about "bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age." Ronn Owens, on KGO Talk Radio today, allowed that this would mean killing innocent people, people who had nothing to do with this atrocity, but "we're at war, we have to accept collateral damage. What else can we do?" Minutes later I heard some TV pundit discussing whether we "have the belly to do what must be done." And I thought about the issues being raised especially hard because I am from Afghanistan, and even though I've lived here for 35 years I've never lost track of what's going on there. So I want to tell anyone who will listen how it all looks from where I'm standing. I speak as one who hates the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. There is no doubt in my mind that these people were responsible for the atrocity in New York. I agree that something must be done about those monsters. But the Taliban and Ben Laden are not Afghanistan. They're not even the government of Afghanistan. The Taliban are a cult of ignorant psychotics who took over Afghanistan in 1997. Bin Laden is a politicalcriminal with a plan. When you think Taliban, think Nazis. When you think Bin Laden, think Hitler. And when you think "the people of Afghanistan" think "the Jews in the concentration camps." It's not only that the Afghan people had nothing to do with this atrocity. They were the first victims of the perpetrators. They would exult if someone would come in there, take out the Taliban and clear out the rats nest of international thugs holed up in their country. Some say, why don't the Afghans rise up and overthrow the Taliban? The answer is, they're starved, exhausted, hurt, incapacitated, suffering. A few years ago, the United Nations estimated that there are 500,000 disabled orphans in Afghanistan--a country with no economy, no food. There are millions of widows. And the Taliban has been burying these widows alive in mass graves. The soil is littered with land mines, the farms were all destroyed by the Soviets. These are a few of the reasons why the Afghan people have not overthrown the Taliban. We come now to the question of bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age. Trouble is, that's been done. The Soviets took care of it already. Make the Afghans suffer? They're already suffering. Level their houses? Done. Turn their schools into piles of rubble? Done. Eradicate their hospitals? Done. Destroy their infrastructure? Cut them off from medicine and health care? Too late. Someone already did all that. New bombs would only stir the rubble of earlier bombs. Would they at least get the Taliban? Not likely. In today's Afghanistan, only the Taliban eat, only they have the means to move around. They'd slip away and hide. Maybe the bombs would get some of those disabled orphans, they don't move too fast, they don't even have wheelchairs. But flying over Kabul and dropping bombs wouldn't really be a strike against the criminals who did this horrific thing. Actually it would only be making common cause with the Taliban--by raping once again the people they've been raping all this time So what else is there? What can be done, then? Let me now speak with true fear and trembling. The only way to get Bin Laden is to go in there with ground troops. When people speak of "having the belly to do what needs to be done" they're thinking in terms of having the belly to kill as many as needed. Having the belly to overcome any moral qualms about killing innocent people. Let's pull our heads out of the sand. What's actually on the table is Americans dying. And not just because some Americans would die fighting their way through Afghanistan to Bin Laden's hideout. It's much bigger than that folks. Because to get and troops to Afghanistan, we'd have to go through Pakistan. Would they let us? Not likely. The conquest of Pakistan would have to be first. Will other Muslim nations just stand by? You see where I'm going. We're flirting with a world war between Islam and the West. And guess what: that's Bin Laden's program. That's exactly what he wants. That's why he did this. Read his speeches and statements. It's all right there. He really believes Islam would beat the west. It might seem ridiculous, but he figures if he can polarize the world into Islam and the West, he's got a billion soldiers. If the west wreaks a holocaust in those lands, that's a billion people with nothing left to lose, that's even better from Bin Laden's point of view. He's probably wrong, in the end the west would win, whatever that would mean, but the war would last for years and millions would die, not just theirs but ours. Who has the belly for that? Bin Laden does. Anyone else? xxx ****************************************************************************** ****************** Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10536 PLEASE FORWARD TO ANY AND ALL NYC THEATER TYPES YOU HAVE E-MAIL FOR: A friend of mine in Virginia is looking for her niece who moved here about a year ago to pursue her dream of Musical Theater. They have not heard from her yet. We are praying that family politics are the only reason they don't know if she is fine. I am putting out a personal call to run through the networks of Off-Off Broadway and see if we can find out her whereabouts. xxx -22 years of age Please get in touch with me if you know her. I am also trying to find where may have worked/hung out/studied etc. We get jokes to pass along all the time. Let's see how well we do when it is real. THIS IS SERIOUS and HERE IS YOUR CHANCE TO HELP. Please help to pass the word, I beg of you. xxx Phone - xxx Fax - xxx ****************************************************************************** ************* 9/12/01 SUBJECT: A Tribute to the United States May this encourage Americans on a day like today. TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing. America: The Good Neighbor. Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television Commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record: "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans. I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - not once, but several times - and safely home again. You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here. When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake. Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those." Stand proud, America! Wear it proudly!! This is one of the best editorials that I have ever read regarding the United States. It is nice that one man realizes it. I only wish that the rest of the world would realize it. We are always blamed for everything, and never even get a thank you for the things we do. I would hope that each of you would send this to as many people as you can and emphasize that they should send it to as many of their friends until this letter is sent to every person on the web. I am just a single American that has read this, TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES ****************************************************************************** *********** rec/d 9/24/01 Subject: Guns Regardless of how you feel about gun laws you gotta love this!!!! I was listening to the radio the other day, and I heard one of the all-time best comeback lines in my life. Note: This is an exact replication of National Public Radio (NPR) interview between a female broadcaster, and US Army General Reinwald who was about to sponsor a Boy Scout Troop visiting his military installation. FEMALE INTERVIEWER: So, General Reinwald, what things are you going to teach these young boys when they visit your base?" GENERAL REINWALD: We're going to teach them climbing, canoeing, archery, and shooting." FEMALE INTERVIEWER: "Shooting! That's a bit irresponsible, isn't it?" GENERAL REINWALD: "I don't see why, they'll be properly supervised on the rifle range." FEMALE INTERVIEWER: "Don't you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children?" GENERAL REINWALD: "I don't see how. We will be teaching them proper rifle discipline before they even touch a firearm. " FEMALE INTERVIEWER: "But you're equipping them to become violent killers." GENERAL REINWALD: "Well, you're equipped to be a prostitute, but you're not one, are you? " The radio went silent and the interview ended. And all I could think was, "Go Army!" September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Thu, 27 Sep 2001 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Subject: Stories re: 9/11 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 email143.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. From: "Eva Nikolausson" <eva.nikolausson@swipnet.se> To: "Helene Nielsen" <hnielsen@socal.rr.com> Subject: SV: We're okay Date: Thursday, September 20, 2001 1:53 PM Hello! I'm really sorry that we didn't get back to you after what happened but it's really hard to put to words how we feel! There have been quiet minutes, people have been crying, people who don't normally stand on the U.S. side politically are really supporting America today which is quite a change and that feels good, I think everybody realizes that we're on the same side. Don't get me wrong, people here really love Americans no matter what and try to copy America in everything, but don't always support the politics, it's kind of hard to explain. I hope you understand what I mean, anyway I was home sick and suddenly in the middle of a movie there was a note about an extra newsbrodcast and you always know what that means, disaster! I was sitting there watching it and it felt like watching a movie, totally unreal and it took me hours until it really hit me, since then the world is not the same and never will be. It's been kind of hard to explain to the kids what really happened, the extent of what happened is to big for them to grasp and I think the same goes for me. I hope that you'll still be able to come to Sweden, we are really looking forward to that and always remember, you are the number one American grandma!!!!!!!!!!!! Timmy is asleep right now but I'm gonna show him your mail when he wakes up and let me tell you him and Celinne are really trying hard to learn english, it's really cool to hear them talk. Anyway I want him to reply to your mail himself and the same goes for the Happy Birthday card from Dave and Katy, you're all so sweet! Take care tell Doug we said Hi and we'll get back to you soon, you're our favourite Americans! Bosse -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: Helene Nielsen [mailto:hnielsen@socal.rr.com] Skickat: den 20 september 2001 06:34 Till: Eva/Bosse Nikolausson Ämne: We're okay Just a note to keep in touch...we are all feeling so sad and sick at heart, and wondering what will the future bring to the USA. We had planned a trip to Boston for a one week tour, September 22-29, but we cancelled. No one wants to fly right now. I still hope to travel eventually (yes, Sweden and Denmark) but right now we can only think of the tragedy, and we're sort of scared about what's coming next. I have the Charizma CD in my car, and I play it often. David said he will lend me some others he has. I really like the music and enjoy listening, and I can picture who is singing and what everyone looks like. So I think I am your number one American grandma fan. Love, Helene September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 9/20/01 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients Helene Nielsen September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. Bosse Nikolaussen September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. E-mail from friends in Sweden Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Kim, Scott just passed your message on. I know better than to try to call -- I have Mom feeding me updates as she gets them from you. I got the first email from Mom saying Matt was in Brooklyn and safe about 30 seconds before I finally got Mapquest to show me just how close his building is to the WTC. You will let her/us know when he gets home, right? Take care & try not to worry too much. If they can make plans to get the school kids home, Matt will be able to find a way home too. Robyn September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Tue, 11 Sep 2001 16:04:29 -0500 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients Kim Hall September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. Robyn Ratliff September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. No Subject Line 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 email804.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Hi everybody, Just a quick note. Many people have called, thanks. We are fine. I was at the airport in Newark yesterday. It was a glorious day and you could see for miles. I was scheduled to fly a flight to Puerto Rico at 8:00 am. We delayed the flight due to a maintenance problem and left at 9:03 am. Just before leaving we heard that the Trade Center was hit by an airplane, and as we pushed back, we could see the towers on fire. I thought right away that this could cause some problems for our flight and called ATC to check on what was happening. The air traffic controller told me that he just watch two airliners crash into the World Trade Center...I asked him to repeat his last comment. He did. As I watch the buildings burn, I got sick to my stomach at the thought of his words. We immediately got permission from the company to return to the gate, I knew we where not going anywhere for a while. Once inside the terminal I called home. Lynn was hysterical. It started to dawn on me what was happening. My initial thought was that it was an accident, I found it hard to believe that two airplanes were involved though, that would never happen unless there was a hijacking. Bingo. After talking to Lynn I realized that my initial impressions were wrong. I told my crew to go home and check in with the company later. I told every one to call home. I stopped by the operation room on the way home to catch some of the news reports. The room looks east towards the Trade Center. I saw the south tower fall. I went to the employee parking lot and watched the North Tower disappear. Just that morning I was looking at that magnificent sky line as the sun was coming up. Now I was looking at a completely different sight. Something that I will never forget. None of us will. Tim September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. September 12 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. terrorism Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. -----Original Message----- From: Fitz-Randolph, Dale [mailto:Dale_Fitz-Randolph@rsco.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 12:08 PM To: 'Wilson, Ellen' Subject: RE: TESTING - TESTING - TESTING Importance: High Ellen, Are you still there? I hope you are all right! Dale -----Original Message----- From: Wilson, Ellen [mailto:Ellen.Wilson@bridge.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 5:18 AM To: 'Fitz-Randolph, Dale' Subject: RE: TESTING - TESTING - TESTING Responding to your test. -Ellen > > -----Original Message----- > From: Fitz-Randolph, Dale [mailto:Dale_Fitz-Randolph@rsco.com] > Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 7:00 PM > To: 'Bridge TRIAD sales - Ellen Wilson' > Subject: TESTING - TESTING - TESTING > Importance: High > > Ellen, > > This is a test of the personal address email entry I have just made for you. > > Please let me know that this works by hitting the "Reply" button. > > Thanks, > Dale Fitz-Randolph > Market Data Services > 415.248.4689 > September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 9/11/01 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. What is the world coming to? Planes have crashed into both towers of the World Trade Center in NYC, and into the Pentagon in Washington, DC. There are fires on the Washington Mall. Hijacked planes have been used in the attacks. Supposedly six planes have been hijacked. Possibly three more sites might be attacked, and heaven only knows where. This is a terrible terrible day. My co-worker has a dear friend who works on the 71st floor of one of the World Trade towers. No clue as to her safety or otherwise. From my office here in Newark we can see the smoke billowing from the towers. Many people were watching the flames from the first attack and saw the second plane hit! What is the world coming too. Suddenly today's headlines have come from the pages of a Tom Clancy novel. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Date: Tue Sep 11, 2001 9:58 am September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients piffle@yahoogroups.com September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. scall0way@yahoo.com September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Subject: Terrorist attacks! Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Tue, 11 Sep 2001 20:46:45 -0400 Shannon wrote: Hi Maggie, I copied your yahoo account because I wasn't sure what e-mail address you check more often than the other? Anyway, how about all this terrorist attacks, huh? You just can't imagine the chaos that is occuring here. But that flight that went down near Pittsburgh actually crashed southeast of Pittsburgh about an hour away. I've been helping my folks with painting and such. My Mom was near death ... I was so upset, but she looks better since I've made a conscious effort to visit. Well, stay safe ... don't speak to strangers. Bye, Shannon -------- From: Maggie To: Shannon Subject: Re: Japan Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 21:00:06 -0700 (PDT) Hi Aunt Shannon, Yeah, my flight got there 45 minutes early which was good. I got to customs and they asked me where my luggage came from. I said Los Angeles and he said ok. I didn't even get it onto the conveyer belt yet. I just got the freakin computer now since day one so I have been having a hard time emailing and calling people. I haven't talk to my parents since the first day... oops. I'm sure they're pretty pissed. All is well here. My host family is a thirty-something couple with one daughter named Juri. She is five and sooooo shy so she has only said one word to me in five days. But it's getting better. She asked her mom why americans don't brush their teeth because my toothbrush didn't fit in the communal cup holder so I carry with me when I use it. She's so cute. I sleep ona futon and eat rice balls and mushroom soup everyday for breakfast. That sucks. My house/apartment is very very small. The bathroom is just a toilet with a sink where they tank is so the water runs through it to wash your hands and then into the bowl. They try to conserve water/space every way they can. It's kind of interesting., It takes me about 1.5 hours to get to class by train and I have to change trains twice. Not too bad. The first day, it took me nearly 3 hours. I will be working one day a week with GE Capital. Have you heard of them? I went to Shinjuku and Shibuya which are both really famous, big, awesome towns. The city looks like Harlem only with less crime and trash. My host father always orders beer for me ,him, and my host mom every time we go out to eat. THe other night he brought homelittle containers of Haagen Daaz and we alll stayed up really late talking about cursive handwriting. He's a salary man for a chemical company. In Japan, most salary men work until like six oclock and they go to dinner/sake with their co-workers until about 9-11ish so he only comes home late. I hvaen't been home much this week bcuase I had a lot of stuff to do and I was meeting my friends so I haven't gotten to see too much of what home life is like for them. They also have two pet beetles. hmmm... Anywho, I'm sick of rice.I want a hamburger. Hope you're having fun in Columbus. You aren't bac kyet are you? See ya later! Maggie -------------- Shannon wrote: Hi Maggie, How are you? How is Japan thus far? I hope your flight wasn't too bad ... you did take off on time, correct? Okay, e-mail me back. Bye, Shannon _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Tue, 11 Sep 2001 20:46:45 -0400 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. sapovchak@yahoo.com September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Somebody call me please 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 email688.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Hola, como estas, supongo que conmocionada con todo lo que paso. Te cuento que veíamos todo en la TV y no lo podiamos creer. No te imaginas lo desesperante que es el ver que una ciudad se destruye, y saber que tu estas alla. Que no habria dado por estar contigo en esos momentos. Mami me llamo y me dijo que tu habias llamado a Ambato y que estas bien, al igual que Kanishka, que alivio. Todas las líneas a NY estaban colapsadas, era imposible llamarte, espero que tu si puedas llamarnos en al noche, yo he de estar en mi casa como a las 10:30. Cuidate un monton, y trata de llamarnos. Un besote Tu hermano September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:15:38 -0400 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients mhbarrerab@yahoo.com September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. alvaro.barrera@citicorp.com September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Hola 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 email97.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. From: Stacy Mealy Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 8:18 AM To: 'Nichols, Dana' Subject: RE: ? Hi, FGM- We were evacuated yesterday morning so I'm just getting this now. I love you too and am so glad that our nearest and dearest are close to home and all safe and accounted for. What a terrible day- I still can't believe this. Everything is different now and will never be the same. We were on the phone yesterday for hours with relatives who are either not coming or are trying to find a way to get here. Some have actually decided to fly and others are going to drive over 17 hrs. to get here. I'm still debating whether I want to do the honeymoon. I am so happy to have all of us toghether on Saturday- it takes on a whole new meaning. We are so lucky to have each other. A very big hug to you, Stacy -----Original Message----- From: Nichols, Dana [mailto:Dana.Nichols@mkcorp.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 1:11 PM To: 'Stacy' Subject: ? You there Stacy? Just wanted to see if you are there and tell you I love you and I'm glad you are here and not gone on your honeymoon yet or visiting David's friend's in the north of our invaded country. FGM Dana E. Nichols Purchasing Assistant Dana.Nichols@mkcorp.com <mailto:Dana.Nichols@mkcorp.com> 214-905-6309 September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Tuesday, September 11, 2001 1:11 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Subject: ? 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 email827.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. > When I sent my first post it was like watching a bad > disaster movie, the news was sketchy and any reports > seemed speculative. Now as Mark said, the Trade > Towers have collapsed, the Pentagon attacked, and > more possible attacks in Chicago and Pennsylvania. > Damn! Just the Trade Towers alone apparently > hold 50,000 workers..... There was a plane crash in Pennsylvania, though it is unknown if it was related to the hijacked planes. Pretty much all large and sensitive buildings have been either put on alert or evacuated. The pentagon is known as the largest office building in the world, holding something like 28,000 government workers. I did go to class today, and a number of people have friends and loved ones who work or live in DC or New York and had no way of knowing if they were all right. It's truly a dark day here. -caitlin September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. September 11, 2001 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients medievaltavern@yahoo.com September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. kiaulune@yahoo.com September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Re: [MedievalTavern] OMG Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. On September 11th 2001 I witnessed history in action; the effects of this have come no where near an end. For the first time in this day and age a large number of innocent civilians were killed in the United States. It is hard to say how this will fall into the rest of history because the event is such a watershed. Never again will our nation be the same in its security and living of day to day life. From that day I have two main memories both of which will never leave my memory. The first is when I heard the news, the class I was in had a broken loud speaker so I didnt hear the announcement at school right away. Then after class I questioned another teacher about the announcement and she told me about the first tower. I thought she was joking and just went on with my day to my locker. Here I heard others discussing the event and I could not comprehend what had happened. It seemed like something that could never happen to the United States. The second memory that I have is driving home around three in the afternoon. I took 93 North threw the city of Boston which was deserted. I could see no other cars behind or in front of me, nor a single person in any building. It felt so unreal that I will never be able to overcome the feeling. This has had an impact on my day to day life. I live knowing that my time here is sort, and existence is fragile. I now more than ever try to get the most out of life while having fun with the time I have. I dont want to have any regrets and since 9-11 I have lived my life to the full that way. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 9-10-02 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients argento@bchigh.edu September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. dahil114@aol.com September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. sept 11 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 email719.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Hi , This morning (September 11, 2001) was a close one. My morning train was 15 minutes late this morning. Otherwise I would have been in the thick of what happened at the World Trade Center this morning. My normal daily schedule is to catch the 8:13 AM train to Hoboken. We arrive at the station around 9:00 AM. I either take a NYC Ferry or what we call the PATH train to the World Train Center. If timing is right, I'm in the World Trade Center around 9:10 AM. By the time I walk through the lower level to the upper level, I reach the outer doors around 9:15 AM. Needless to say, as you've been listening to the news, this is when the terrorist attack was taking place and the first tower was collapsing around 9:13 AM. As we were approaching the Hoboken station, around 9:00 AM, several on the train had heard the news via friends who called them on their cell phones about the WTC towers. Many already were looking out the train windows. When I saw several people looking out the window I asked what was happening, and was jolted with the news that two planes had hit the towers. As we got off the train, we were all thinking that we would be able to catch either the PATH or a NYC Ferry over to Manhattan. I think I walked about 100 feet when the announcement came, "All transportation into Manhattan has been suspended. Please listen, as we are arranging a new train schedule and will get you back to your home destinations as quickly as it is possible." Fortunately the train was announced at 10:25 AM. We sat and waited until the train was pretty full. We left at 11:00 AM. As we pulled out of the station, we could see the tremendous flames and smoke of the fire. The train passengers went silent as we watched the billowing smoke. Someone's cell phone rang. Someone then said outload, both towers are gone. As we looked, we were unable to see the towers, and yet someone behind me said, "That can't be true, I can still see them. The smoke is just hiding them." Yet it was obvious, the towers were not there! It's amazing. The normal daily ride into Hoboken is usually comfortably quiet. Most riders are reading their morning newspapers or books. A few chat with friends they've made over the years of riding trains together. As we sat waiting for the train to return back to the stations we came from earlier, conversations quickly emerged. Two men were sitting in front of me. Both were in buildings immediately next to the WTC towers. One was in an elevator when the first plane struck the tower. He went back downstairs to see what was happening. As he walked out the door the second plane hit. He said that he didn't even think twice to go back to his office. He spoke of how he ran along the battery area and headed for the Ferry area. He said that he was ready to jump into the water if he had to jump to safety. Most of us had cell phones, but were unable to reach those we wanted to call. Every so often someone's cell would ring, and a bit of news would be shared with those who were around the caller. We still haven't been able to locate one of our staff members who normally is going through the WTC at that time. I often meet her on the PATH train and walk to work with her. It is possible that she could be speaking somewhere. Hopefully she is safe somewhere! Please keep Marie in your prayer. (Marie was home preparing to leave for Providence, RI for a speaking engagement when the attack was happening.) I'm safe, but a little unnerved this evening. As I watch the news reports I am more aware that it was the stroke of a late train that kept me from being in the middle of this awful event earlier today. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 5:56 PM on September 11th September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. 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 email201.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. From: X Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 13:14:03 EST To: X Subject: Fwd: It's about oil - from yesterdays San Francisco Chronicle In a message dated 11/3/01 11:30:16 AM, X writes: << It's about oil Ted Rall Friday, November 2, 2001 URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/11/02 /ED90804.DTL New York -- NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV has a terrible problem. He's the president and former Communist Party boss of Kazakstan, the second-largest republic of the former Soviet Union. A few years ago, the giant country struck oil in the eastern portion of the Caspian Sea. Geologists estimate that sitting beneath the wind-blown steppes of Kazakstan are 50 billion barrels of oil -- by far the biggest untapped reserves in the world. (Saudi Arabia, currently the world's largest oil producer, is believed to have about 30 billion barrels remaining.) Kazakstan's Soviet-subsidized economy collapsed immediately after independence in 1991. When I visited the then-capital, Almaty, in 1997, I was struck by the utter absence of elderly people. One after another, people confided that their parents had died of malnutrition during the brutal winters of 1993 and 1994. Middle-class residents of a superpower had been reduced to abject poverty virtually overnight; thirtysomething women who appeared sixtysomething hocked their wedding silver in underpasses, next to reps for the Kazak state art museum trying to move enough socialist-realist paintings for a dollar each to keep the lights on. The average Kazak earned $20 a month; those unwilling or unable to steal died of gangrene while sitting on the sidewalk next to long- winded tales of woe written on cardboard. Autocrats tend to die badly during periods of downward mobility. Nazarbayev, therefore, has spent most of the past decade trying to get his landlocked oil out to sea. Once the oil starts flowing, it won't take long before Kazakstan replaces Kuwait as the land of Mercedes-Benzs and ugly gold jewelry. But the longer the pipeline, the more expensive and vulnerable it is to sabotage. The shortest route runs through Iran, but Kazakstan is too closely aligned with the United States to offend it by cutting a deal with Tehran. Russia has helpfully offered to build a line connecting Kazak oil rigs with the Black Sea, but neighboring Turkmenistan has experienced trouble with the Russians -- they tend to divert the oil for their own use without paying for it. There's even a plan to run crude through China, but the proposed 5,300-mile-long pipeline would be far too long to prove profitable. The logical alternative, then, is Unocal's plan, which is to extend Turkmenistan's existing system west to the Kazak field on the Caspian Sea and southeast to the Pakistani port of Karachi on the Arabian Sea. That project runs through Afghanistan. As Central Asian expert Ahmed Rashid describes in his book "Taliban," published last year, the United States and Pakistan decided to install a stable regime in place in Afghanistan around 1994 -- a regime that would end the country's civil war and thus ensure the safety of the Unocal pipeline project. Impressed by the ruthlessness and willingness of the then-emerging Taliban to cut a pipeline deal, the State Department and Pakistan's Inter- Services Intelligence agency agreed to funnel arms and funding to the Taliban in their war against the ethnically Tajik Northern Alliance. As recently as 1999, U.S. taxpayers paid the entire annual salary of every single Taliban government official, all in the hopes of returning to the days of dollar-a- gallon gas. Pakistan, naturally, would pick up revenues from a Karachi oil port facility. Harkening back to 19th century power politics between Russia and British India, Rashid dubbed the struggle for control of post-Soviet Central Asia "the new Great Game." Predictably, the Taliban Frankenstein got out of control. The regime's unholy alliance with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network, their penchant for invading their neighbors and their production of 50 percent of the world's opium made them unlikely partners for the desired oil deal. Then-President Bill Clinton's August 1998 cruise missile attack on Afghanistan briefly brought the Taliban back into line -- they even eradicated opium poppy cultivation in less than a year -- but they nonetheless continued supporting countless militant Islamic groups. When an Egyptian group whose members had trained in Afghanistan hijacked four airplanes and used them to kill thousands of Americans on September 11, Washington's patience with its former client finally expired. Finally the Bushies have the perfect excuse to do what the United States has wanted to do all along -- invade and/or install an old-school puppet regime in Kabul. Realpolitik no more cares about the thousands of dead than it concerns itself with oppressed women in Afghanistan; this ersatz war by a phony president is solely about getting the Unocal deal done without interference from annoying local middlemen. Central Asian politics, however, is a house of cards: every time you remove one element, the whole thing comes crashing down. Muslim extremists in both Pakistan and Afghanistan, for instance, will support additional terrorist attacks on the United States to avenge the elimination of the Taliban. A U.S.- installed Northern Alliance can't hold Kabul without an army of occupation because Afghan legitimacy hinges on capturing the capital on your own. Even if we do this the right way by funding and training the Northern Alliance so that they can seize power themselves, Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun government will never stand the replacement of their Pashtun brothers in the Taliban by Northern Alliance Tajiks. Without Pakistani cooperation, there's no getting the oil out and there's no chance for stability in Afghanistan. As Bush would say, "make no mistake": this is about oil. It's always about oil. And to twist a late '90s cliche, it's only boring because it's true. Ted Rall, a syndicated editorial cartoonist, has traveled extensively throughout Central Asia. In 2000, he went to Turkmenistan as a guest of the State Department. His latest book is "2024: A Graphic Novel" (NBM Books, May 2001). ©2001 San Francisco Chronicle Page A - 25 ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- From: X Date: Saturday, November 3, 2001 11:27 AM To: (Recipient list suppressed) Subject: It's about oil - from yesterdays San Francisco Chronicle It's about oil Ted Rall Friday, November 2, 2001 URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/11/02 /ED90804.DTL New York -- NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV has a terrible problem. He's the president and former Communist Party boss of Kazakstan, the second-largest republic of the former Soviet Union. A few years ago, the giant country struck oil in the eastern portion of the Caspian Sea. Geologists estimate that sitting beneath the wind-blown steppes of Kazakstan are 50 billion barrels of oil -- by far the biggest untapped reserves in the world. (Saudi Arabia, currently the world's largest oil producer, is believed to have about 30 billion barrels remaining.) Kazakstan's Soviet-subsidized economy collapsed immediately after independence in 1991. When I visited the then-capital, Almaty, in 1997, I was struck by the utter absence of elderly people. One after another, people confided that their parents had died of malnutrition during the brutal winters of 1993 and 1994. Middle-class residents of a superpower had been reduced to abject poverty virtually overnight; thirtysomething women who appeared sixtysomething hocked their wedding silver in underpasses, next to reps for the Kazak state art museum trying to move enough socialist-realist paintings for a dollar each to keep the lights on. The average Kazak earned $20 a month; those unwilling or unable to steal died of gangrene while sitting on the sidewalk next to long- winded tales of woe written on cardboard. Autocrats tend to die badly during periods of downward mobility. Nazarbayev, therefore, has spent most of the past decade trying to get his landlocked oil out to sea. Once the oil starts flowing, it won't take long before Kazakstan replaces Kuwait as the land of Mercedes-Benzs and ugly gold jewelry. But the longer the pipeline, the more expensive and vulnerable it is to sabotage. The shortest route runs through Iran, but Kazakstan is too closely aligned with the United States to offend it by cutting a deal with Tehran. Russia has helpfully offered to build a line connecting Kazak oil rigs with the Black Sea, but neighboring Turkmenistan has experienced trouble with the Russians -- they tend to divert the oil for their own use without paying for it. There's even a plan to run crude through China, but the proposed 5,300-mile-long pipeline would be far too long to prove profitable. The logical alternative, then, is Unocal's plan, which is to extend Turkmenistan's existing system west to the Kazak field on the Caspian Sea and southeast to the Pakistani port of Karachi on the Arabian Sea. That project runs through Afghanistan. As Central Asian expert Ahmed Rashid describes in his book "Taliban," published last year, the United States and Pakistan decided to install a stable regime in place in Afghanistan around 1994 -- a regime that would end the country's civil war and thus ensure the safety of the Unocal pipeline project. Impressed by the ruthlessness and willingness of the then-emerging Taliban to cut a pipeline deal, the State Department and Pakistan's Inter- Services Intelligence agency agreed to funnel arms and funding to the Taliban in their war against the ethnically Tajik Northern Alliance. As recently as 1999, U.S. taxpayers paid the entire annual salary of every single Taliban government official, all in the hopes of returning to the days of dollar-a- gallon gas. Pakistan, naturally, would pick up revenues from a Karachi oil port facility. Harkening back to 19th century power politics between Russia and British India, Rashid dubbed the struggle for control of post-Soviet Central Asia "the new Great Game." Predictably, the Taliban Frankenstein got out of control. The regime's unholy alliance with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network, their penchant for invading their neighbors and their production of 50 percent of the world's opium made them unlikely partners for the desired oil deal. Then-President Bill Clinton's August 1998 cruise missile attack on Afghanistan briefly brought the Taliban back into line -- they even eradicated opium poppy cultivation in less than a year -- but they nonetheless continued supporting countless militant Islamic groups. When an Egyptian group whose members had trained in Afghanistan hijacked four airplanes and used them to kill thousands of Americans on September 11, Washington's patience with its former client finally expired. Finally the Bushies have the perfect excuse to do what the United States has wanted to do all along -- invade and/or install an old-school puppet regime in Kabul. Realpolitik no more cares about the thousands of dead than it concerns itself with oppressed women in Afghanistan; this ersatz war by a phony president is solely about getting the Unocal deal done without interference from annoying local middlemen. Central Asian politics, however, is a house of cards: every time you remove one element, the whole thing comes crashing down. Muslim extremists in both Pakistan and Afghanistan, for instance, will support additional terrorist attacks on the United States to avenge the elimination of the Taliban. A U.S.- installed Northern Alliance can't hold Kabul without an army of occupation because Afghan legitimacy hinges on capturing the capital on your own. Even if we do this the right way by funding and training the Northern Alliance so that they can seize power themselves, Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun government will never stand the replacement of their Pashtun brothers in the Taliban by Northern Alliance Tajiks. Without Pakistani cooperation, there's no getting the oil out and there's no chance for stability in Afghanistan. As Bush would say, "make no mistake": this is about oil. It's always about oil. And to twist a late '90s cliche, it's only boring because it's true. Ted Rall, a syndicated editorial cartoonist, has traveled extensively throughout Central Asia. In 2000, he went to Turkmenistan as a guest of the State Department. His latest book is "2024: A Graphic Novel" (NBM Books, May 2001). ©2001 San Francisco Chronicle Page A - 25 September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Sun, 4 Nov 2001 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Subject: Fwd: It's about oil - from yesterdays San Francisco Chronicle 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 email103.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. HELP! Trying to get information to Royal Human Resources. I work in the World Trade Center NYC legal staff counsel office. This is my wife's e-mail. Please pass this information onto Human resources. Tomiko, I'm OK. Not sure who would have been in our office but Dolores Forbes comes in early usually around 8:00 a.m. Patricia Gopaul also comes in early. I'm not sure of anyone else's schedule. Apparently our tower collapsed. Our office was on the 28th floor. Just wanted to let you know that I'm OK. Phone lines are down tried to call earlier. I also have no idea abot Robert Fumo, Brian McCaffrey, Stuart Flamen. Stu probably is OK since the attack happened early and he lives far away. Robert usually gets to the office later. I'm also not sure when MaryAnn gets in. Try to call me at 212-(deleted)(home) Please pray for anyone who might have been in our building. Leonard Silverman September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Tuesday, September 11, 2001 11:02 AM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients john_dasti@rsausa.com <john_dasti@rsausa.com> September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. URGENT! WTC BOMBING- PLEASE READ ROYAL NYC OFFICE 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 email433.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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