13 20 271 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 10th Anniversary Collection Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question Considering i was in the third grade when the attacks happened my life has not changed much. However, it made me realize that life is too short and I need to live everyday as if it were my last. I thank God everyday that none of my family memebers were in those buildings when they went down. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I plan to pray for those whose lives were taken on that day and pray for those who lost someone on 9/11. I also plan to watch the many TV shows that will be on tomorrow about the attacks on 9/11. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? News media 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 10th Anniversary Collection Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question Since Sept. 11, 2001, my life has changed. Since I was so young when the events unfolded, I quickly learned the United States is not invincible. We are not loved by everyone in the world, and we are not the strongest nation out there, but we have the greatest military in the world, and the most dedicated servicemen. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I will remember the attacks for what it was: a tragedy that took the lives of nearly 3,000 innocent people. It was a terrible day that fortunately united people to become one identity. It has always been a sensitive topic for me, as I'm sure it's been for other people. The firefighters, emergency response members, citizens and volunteers of the attacks will forever be heroes and should be treated as nothing less. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? American Social History Project 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 10th Anniversary Collection Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question I have no time for hatred. I look into the eyes of soldiers; I listen to the voices of world leaders; I hear the spirituality in different faiths, and all I can think is, we have no time for hate. Life is too short, and I think most of us learned this lesson above all others from September 11th. My life is about understanding, peace, and reaching out, reaching up. I now have 3 beautiful children, the first of which was conceived a month after September 11, and I want them to hope and love. The day of the attacks, I was on my way to work as a 9th grade English teacher. It was early in the morning, so early as I drove the short distance to the high school parking lot. During the drive, I had a moment of immense sadness; I felt I could hear angels crying; I felt as if something terrible was going to happen and nothing could be done to stop it. I called my husband on my cell, and crying, I told him I feel so sad and I don't know why. When I reached the school, I had a free period for the first round of classes. I was sitting in a friends classroom waiting and planning for the rest of the day when my husband called me on my cell and told me to call him from a landline since the reception was poor. I went to the teacher's lounge in our area and called him; he told me about the towers being attacked. We hung up, and I went back to my friends classroom and told her what had happened according to my husband. Within minutes, the announcement was made to the entire school. We trudged through the day, calming students, trying to stay positive, and all I could think was why so much hatred. So now, I have no time for hate, only love. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I live in another country right now, and on September 11th, I will watch the ceremonies and speeches I can find on television; I know I will cry as I remember. I will talk with my children; I will remember with my husband; I will pray; and I will continue to hope and love. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? Facebook, Twitter, other social networks 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 10th Anniversary Collection Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question It's changed because people say that I was alive on September 11. It was a big part because I didn't know what was going on when I was three. It just changed because I never knew what was happening and I wasn't scared because I was three. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I will remember the lives that were lost and I was only a baby. I can't believe something like that would happen and It's hard because I will never forget September 11. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? Smithsonian website 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 10th Anniversary Collection Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question It changed in many ways but the biggest is I don't anything for granted How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I was coming home from staying over night at a friends house and had just put my stuff on my bed when my mother called me and told me to turn on the tv that one of the trade centers was on fire and I did so just in time to see the second tower be hit and I remember feeling sad and angry that this had happened and that so many people where affected. I could not understand who could do this. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? Facebook, Twitter, other social networks 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 10th Anniversary Collection Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question On September 11, 2001 I was nine years old sitting on the bean bag chair in my elementary school library. My classmates and I were waiting for our library teacher to begin her lesson when our art teacher burst into the room, with an energy that we had never seen. In one breath he said "The World Trade Center was hit, you can see it from the window!" The library on the fifth floor of our Bath Beach school had the perfect view of Lower Manhattan, especially on clear day, but what I saw with my own eyes was all too clear. In one second, as the billowing smoke was exhuming from the tower, I saw what looked like a little bird fly around the burning tower and come around and smash right into the second tower. With the burst of flames I lost my breath for a second and I was overcome with fear as I looked at my fellow classmates, many from the Fort Hamilton army base, their parents active in the army. The look on their faces said it all and without a word we all knew that everyone's life had just changed. Since that dreadful September, the next half of my life has been living in a country in war, fighting terrorism, constantly emerged in violence. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question On the 10th anniversary, I will watch the ceremony and reflect upon the past ten years. I am sure I will again see the image I saw that day, and continue to pray for all the victims, both those that passed, those whose family passed, and fellow New Yorkers who too saw with their own eyes the havoc wreaked that day. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? News media 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 10th Anniversary Collection Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question On September 11, I was working in the Rayburn Building on Capitol Hill, just a few short yards from the Capitol. In the cafeteria people were talking about the plane that hit the Pentagon, and we could see the smoke, but it seemed to me another Air Florida crash -- a freak accident. Then minutes later I went back to my office and saw on television that CNN was reporting a bomb in the Capitol. This turned out to be untrue, but it was what made me realize that I should leave the building. I walked outside and there was widespread panic. People were running around and crying. The Capitol police told us that another plane was in the air and we should run. "Where should we run?" I asked one cop. He said, "Just run from the buildings." And of course buildings were everywhere. I ended up helping a disabled elevator operator named Fifene. I rapped on windshields of cars to see if anyone could take her to her halfway house. She was very scared and could not get home. Finally one car driver agreed to let her in her car. I never knew what happened to her until a year later when I read in the Washington Post two years later that she froze to death one wintry night while trying to get home. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? News media 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 10th Anniversary Collection Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question My parents and teachers say that I am too young to remember 9/11, and no one else my age has any memories of that day. But for some reason, I remember almost every detail of that day. It was a bright, bright day, one of the those days when it is almost too sunny. I was picked up early from preschool, very shortly after I got there. My mom was very distressed. When I got home, I watched clouds of black smoke billow out of two skyscrapers on a small TV. My mom was crying. I didn't know why. I then ate my lunch while she frantically called my older sister's school and asked if the kids would be sent home, and then got angry when they said no. I was frightened seeing my mom angry and crying and that horrible dark black smoke. To cheer me up, we went to a park where I happily played while thousands of people lost their lives. I was four. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? Facebook, Twitter, other social networks 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 10th Anniversary Collection Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question My wife and I were waiting in Tenerife Canary Islands to cross the Atlantic in our small sailboat which would have completed our 7 year circumnavigation. We were berthed next to a friendly Spanish Gentleman. Which only spoke Spanish. Shortly after noon on 9/11 as we were returning to our boat he was running franicly about the dock motioning for us to hurry to our boat. He began drawing pictures of the twin towers on a piece of paper. But we did not reconize what he was drawing, he noticed our small TV, We turned it on and although CNN was in Spanish. We watched in shock as the towers burned and fell. Within a few hours Nationalities from Demark,France,UK,Germany,Austria, New Zealand and others began becoming to our boat to express their sorrow. That night in Tenerife the locals gathered and lit thousands of candles while hoisting the American Flag. The next day a small sailboat sailed into tenerife with the most amazing story. Shortly after listening to 9/11 on the radio a German Submarine surfaced next to them. The crew piped the rails holding up the German flag and a sign that read "AMERICA WE ARE WITH YOU' There were many times that we were proud to be Americans but none as proud as then. GOD BLESS AMERICA Jeff and Kathryn Taylor S/V Wild Goose GOD BLESS AMERICA Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? News media 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 10th Anniversary Collection Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question My wife and I were waiting in Tenerife Canary Islands to cross the Atlantic in our small sailboat which would have completed our 7 year circumnavigation. We were berthed next to a friendly Spanish Gentleman. Which only spoke Spanish. Shortly after noon on 9/11 as we were returning to our boat he was running franicly about the dock motioning for us to hurry to our boat. He began drawing pictures of the twin towers on a piece of paper. But we did not reconize what he was drawing, he noticed our small TV, We turned it on and although CNN was in Spanish. We watched in shock as the towers burned and fell. Within a few hours Nationalities from Demark,France,UK,Germany,Austria, New Zealand and others began becoming to our boat to express their sorrow. That night in Tenerife the locals gathered and lit thousands of candles while hoisting the American Flag. The next day a small sailboat sailed into tenerife with the most amazing story. Shortly after listening to 9/11 on the radio a German Submarine surfaced next to them. The crew piped the rails holding up the German flag and a sign that read "AMERICA WE ARE WITH YOU' There were many times that we were proud to be Americans but none as proud as then. GOD BLESS AMERICA Jeff and Kathryn Taylor S/V Wild Goose GOD BLESS AMERICA Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? News media 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 10th Anniversary Collection Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question My wife and I were waiting in Tenerife Canary Islands to cross the Atlantic in our small sailboat which would have completed our 7 year circumnavigation. We were berthed next to a friendly Spanish Gentleman. Which only spoke Spanish. Shortly after noon on 9/11 as we were returning to our boat he was running franicly about the dock motioning for us to hurry to our boat. He began drawing pictures of the twin towers on a piece of paper. But we did not reconize what he was drawing, he noticed our small TV, We turned it on and although CNN was in Spanish. We watched in shock as the towers burned and fell. Within a few hours Nationalities from Demark,France,UK,Germany,Austria, New Zealand and others began becoming to our boat to express their sorrow. That night in Tenerife the locals gathered and lit thousands of candles while hoisting the American Flag. The next day a small sailboat sailed into tenerife with the most amazing story. Shortly after listening to 9/11 on the radio a German Submarine surfaced next to them. The crew piped the rails holding up the German flag and a sign that read "AMERICA WE ARE WITH YOU' There were many times that we were proud to be Americans but none as proud as then. GOD BLESS AMERICA Jeff and Kathryn Taylor S/V Wild Goose 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 10th Anniversary Collection Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question On 9 11 i was 14 years old, i knew nothing about america or americans and i try not to cry, but it was imposible, it was too much even for a child from a long distanced country. I felt rage, compassion, disbelief, shock. Later, i tought i could erase it from my mind and how wrong i was. I still cry when I see those images! I think there are so many people who need help as colateral victims , it's not over yet. God bless you. https://www.911digitalarchive.org/files/original/06382144253f8f777e5abfa3b153a40a.jpg 515fc78ebc68de64e6d46ecc731da041 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. 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Description An account of the resource Our news office in New Berlin WI was just north of one of Milwaukee's Mitchell Field's major flight paths for incoming aircraft.Even though we were 20 miles from the airport, we could stand in our parking lot to hear and see every model and type of aircraft descending for a landing. Late in the in the afternoon of 9/11, I stood in that parking lot and gazed at clear blue skies silent and devoid of any aircraft. On Sept. 9, 2004, the New Berlin Fire Department dedicated a 9/11 memorial at Station 1 to the firefighters and officers who gave their lives at New York's World Trade Center. As the ceremony progressed, four different jet aircraft passed overhead, their contrails crossing in the heavens. C.T. Kruger Photojournalist Community Newspapers / NOW Newpapers Waukesha, WI 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 10th Anniversary Collection Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question After witnessing and experiencing the attacks in New York City on the morning of September 11th, I was forced to re-define what I believed to be humanity's capacity to hate, but also to love. I had to re-define my concept of good and evil. I had to re-define my thoughts on the ability of humans to cause such destruction, but also the ability of humans to heal and rebuild. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question On September 11, 2001 I was working at a commercial photo studio located downtown on Washington Street. One of my responsibilities included opening up the studios in the morning, and on that day we had several high profile photo shoots scheduled, so I would be opening the studios at 7am with a full day ahead. While standing on the elevated subway platform in Queens, waiting for the 7 Train, I watched the golden sun rise to reveal a crisp, beautiful clear blue sky. On the previous evening, my father and I had planned on going to the Yankees game, but it rained heavily, so the game was postponed, and we decided to go again the next night. I was happy to see such nice weather because it meant that we would be able to go to the Yankee game. It was business as usual as I got on the train, and then transferred at 42nd street to a downtown E Train. It was common for the E Train to be filled with people going down to work at the Trade Center and in the Financial District, and the morning of September 11th was no different. Sitting next to me on the train that morning was a group of Merrill Lynch trainees who seemed to be headed downtown. A woman sitting across from me got up to give her seat to an older gentleman who had gotten on the train at Penn Station. The woman had a bright smile on her face, and I thought to myself, "She is going to have a good day today". Upon my arrival at work, I found that I would be training a new girl from Alabama named Heather. She had just arrived in NYC a few days earlier, and lived close to me in Queens. That morning we had 2 photo shoots going on. One was with Heidi Klum for Italian Vogue and the other was with Harvey Weinstein for Entertainment Weekly. In addition, we had a commercial casting which was expecting to see 50-100 children over the course of the day. I got Heather situated to start answering phone calls, and when the casting agent arrived, I signed him in at exactly 8:45am and went to unlock the studio, which was located in another building around the corner on Jane Street. No sooner did I unlock the door and begin walking back to the main building that I heard a loud boom, which immediately echoed through the streets. All of the pigeons in the neighborhood flew from their perches. I hadn't ever seen that before, and it stood out. Walking down Washington Street, the towers were directly in front of me, but when I heard the boom, I didn't look up because I assumed that the noise was from a truck on the West Side Highway which was only one block to the west. As I was about to open the door and walk into the main building, the general manager of the studio grabbed me and shouted, "The World Trade Center is on fire!" We turned to face the buildings and sure enough there was a large hole and fire on the upper floors of the north tower. The plume of smoke had just begun and there were papers flying around in the air. It was so soon after the impact that we didn't hear any sirens yet, and I said "This must've just happened". The streets were still so quiet, but that would soon change. Within minutes, all Hell had broken loose. We went into crisis mode at the studio as children and their parents had already begun to arrive. The children seemed calm, but the parents were crying and in hysterics. We turned on the television and that was the first time we had heard about a plane hitting the building. I immediately thought it was terrorism. I never thought it was an accident because from my perspective on the street, I could tell that it was a direct hit right in the middle of the building. And it was a huge hole. It was not a small plane that had accidentally crashed. This was intentional. A small crowd had begun to form on the corner of Washington and Jane, and as I stood there looking up at the clear blue sky, I thought about all of the newspaper articles I had been reading around that time in the NY Post about Bin Laden and his intent to attack America. I mentioned it to one of my co-workers and I said, "They got us". A moment later a huge fireball erupted from the south tower. We didn't see the plane hit. We only saw the fireball. People were screaming in the streets and there was now a steady parade of fire trucks, ambulances, and police cars headed downtown toward the towers with sirens wailing. There were emergency vehicles that I had never seen before which looked like military vehicles. They were all racing to get downtown, and in retrospect, many of them were racing to what would become their final resting place. Amidst all the chaos, Heidi Klum arrived for her photo shoot, but no one else on the crew had shown up. She was visibly shaken and upset, and was in hysterics. I put my arm around her and brought her into our studio cafe where she was making frantic phone calls. Around this time, we got word that the Pentagon had also been hit. There was a lot of confusion. People were saying that there was a car bomb at the state department and that there were more hijacked planes in the air, presumably on their way to NYC. This was when fear set in. People had begun to evacuate lower Manhattan and were walking past us. At times, crowds of people were running up Washington Street because there was fear of gas line explosions. We decided it was best to drive Heidi back uptown to her hotel in our equipment van. The photo shoot with Harvey Weinstein was cancelled because he was stuck in New Jersey. The kids casting, which had already begun, was cancelled, and there were a few remaining children who we needed to re-connect with their parents. Our employees were calling their parents, some of whom worked in the Financial District. As all of this was going on, someone told us that one of the towers had collapsed. We went outside and stared in shock and disbelief. Moments later the north tower crumbled to the ground as we watched. Amidst the cloud of debris, you could see the shattered glass reflecting the bright sunlight and it sparkled. I immediately thought of Obi-Wan Kenobi's quote from Star Wars, when he learns that the planet Alderaan had been destroyed, "It was as if millions of voices cried out in horror, then were suddenly silenced." The next hour or so is a bit of a blur. We were all in shock at what was happening. People who had evacuated the towers began making their way uptown. Some were covered in sweat. Some were covered in dust. A few people had blood on them. I remember giving a cup of water to a businessman who had been at the trade center and said it was a war zone. All the while, the police and fire trucks continued to race downtown. All you could hear were sirens from all over the city. Around noon, we decided to close the studio, and go home. I had to get back to Queens, so I offered to bring the new girl Heather with me. We walked up 12th street, and I remember seeing lines of people waiting to donate blood. We passed St. Vincents and saw a large crowd of doctors awaiting the arrival of incoming patients. As we walked through the city, people had their car stereos turned up, and there were people listening to the news. It was a warm day and so nice out, but when you looked south, all you could see was smoke rising from the World Trade Center site. I remarked that I felt like I was living in a movie. While we were waiting to cross the street at one point, a city bus pulled up that had come from downtown. The doors opened up, and everyone who got off the bus was covered in dust and debris. We walked uptown via 2nd avenue and when we got to the entrance to the Midtown Tunnel, we noticed that they were allowing cars to go through. It was then that we were stopped by WPIX reporter Lolita Lopez, who helped us flag down a town car to go through the tunnel. The car dropped us off at the other side of the Midtown Tunnel, and Heather and I went our separate ways. Since I had no cell phone service, I stopped at my local neighborhood Chinese restaurant so that I could call my parents to let them know that I was home safe. From Queens, I could still see the huge plume of smoke rising from lower Manhattan. At home I was reunited with my wife, and we spent a few moments hugging and crying. It was the first time that I had expressed any emotion all day. We didn't know if the ordeal was over, or if it was only the beginning of more attacks, so my wife and I took some cash out of the bank and went to the grocery store to stock up on water and canned food. The days that followed found us all mourning the loss of the towers, the loss of our neighbors, and the loss of our innocence. You couldn't go anywhere without seeing funerals for police and firemen. The city seemed to ban together, and we found a unity that I had never seen before. My father was working for Con Edison at the time, and was spending 16-20 hours a day working to get the lights back on in lower Manhattan. Their main sub-station was located in the basement on WTC 7, and it was completely destroyed in the collapse, so they were literally running cables through the streets. I volunteered to help with the staging at Yankee Stadium for the memorial service on September 23rd. It was my way of contributing to help out the families and friends who were directly affected and who had lost loved ones in the attack. No matter what race, religion, or culture you were from, were were all united in our grief, and the memorial service was a fitting tribute. I personally didn't feel a sense of normalcy until the Yankees started playing baseball again. Once the playoffs began, it was like the whole city was able to take a break for three hours to forget about all of the terror and sadness. The Yankees played their hearts out for the city of New York, and for our country. Those were some of the best baseball games I have ever seen. They had a deeper meaning than just baseball, and when Derek Jeter hit a game winning home run in the early morning hours of November 1st, it was the first time I had experienced any sort of joy since before the attacks. To heal from all of the pain and sadness, I wrote poetry to express my feelings. In December, I took my video camera down to the Ground Zero site and shot footage of the recovery efforts. I would continue to shoot video at Ground Zero every year afterwards on the anniversary of the attacks. I still miss the towers so much and I miss those days before 9/11. When I see the towers on television, it makes my heart sink. This was our backyard, and the victims were our neighbors. I will never forget the sacrifices made by all of those men and women on 9/11. I Love New York! 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 10th Anniversary Collection Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question I really don't think that my life has changed, but I do believe that it has changed others lives. After the 9/11 happened it had a lot of people's eyes filled with fear and it made a lot of people paranoid. It made people feel like they have to had protection where they went. After 9/11 people found other ways to get from place to place. They started riding trains, some people even drove from state to state. It just made a lot of people fear for there lives. Actually a couple of months after my mother and I got on a plane to New York to see the twin towers, and I was kind of Amazed on what I saw. Their was just dirt and roses, and all I could do was a have a flashback of what happened on that tragic day. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I remember being in the 1st grade and my mom came and got me, and we went to her friends house to watch the news. I remember the exact words my mom said, "If were going to die, I guess well just have to die together". At the time I didn't have a clue on what she was talking about. The thing that was strange to me about it was that my friend Erica's birthday was on that day. I felt bad the next day knowing that people including children lost there lives. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? American Social History Project 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 10th Anniversary Collection Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question It didn't.... How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question That day was a nice sunny day on the Monterey Peninsula, but it was to be one of the biggest changes in my life, for you see; I was working as a Federal Police Officer at the old Ft. Ord Annex, which was the former home of the 7th Infantry Division at Ft. Ord, Ca. After the 7th Division was deactivated in 1995, the former Ft. Ord was closed down to include the old Silas B. Hayes Army Community Hospital, during the years leading up to the September 11th attack, the hospital was being used by other Federal Agencies. On that day, I was assigned to work at the DMDC/DFAS (Defense Management Data Center / Defense Finance and Accounting Services) building. After our briefing at 6:00am I took my patrol vehicle, and drove half a block up from our Police Station, and went inside to relieve the midnight shift. After going over the nights events I went outside and got in my car and drove to the back of the DFAS to watch the Federal Workers come in to work. While waiting and watching the civilians coming in, I had turned my vehicles radio to the San Francisco radio channel KGO Talk, to listen to the news from the Bay Area. While in my car, I was reading a few police reports that I had written when I heard the first attack on one of the twin towers. Sitting there in my car, I started to think about the B-24 bomber that had run into the Empire State Building in 1945, and thought that this was an accident so I turned up the volumne to listen to the news report. A few minutes later, I heard the reporters on scene at the twin towers talking about the first airplane crash, the fire, the responding fire and police units. Then I heard a cry that another plane was heading for the second tower. As I sat there in silence, I heard the scream of somone in the back saying the plane was going to hit, and a few minutes later the second plane ran into the second tower. While sitting there in silence, suddenly I could hear the police dispatcher telling everyone that we were now going into what at that time was the code for "War-Time" conditions. As I sat there listening to our dispatcher I could now see numerous flatbed trailers traveling up the roadway in front of the DMDC building. What seemed like a few minutes, was approximately 20-30 minutes before the empty flatbeds were now full of orange barricades, heading for the DMDC, the Presidio of Monterey (Defense Language Institute), and roadways leading onto the old Ft. Ord I was then orderd to go to the front entrance, where I was now ordered to do a 100% ID card check on everyone who wanted to enter the DMDC/DFAS building. Now if you didn't have a valid Military or Federal ID Card, you were turned away. From the time of the second plane hitting the twin towers, I spent appproximately 14 hours on station w/o any breaks. From what we gathered, the entier Military Community on the Monterey Peninsula to include the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey was no on full War Time alert. As the news continued, the Presidio of Monterey was shut down, but some months prior to the attack, the Presidio of Monterey had already closed down several key gates leading in and out of the Presidio to civilian traffic. In fact, guard posts were already set up, barricades in place, and the students were learning how to man guard posts. So when the attack came on September11th, it was now easy to shut down the Presidio to all but authorized Military & Civilian Federal Emplyees. Our life as Police Officers drastically changed. We found out that besides the people in the airplanes that had crashed at the twin towers, the Pentagon, and in the Pennsylvania field, we lost over 200-300 of our brother and sister police & firefighters. All days off were cancelled, and vacation/annual leaves were being denied. Many of us maybe got one day off during the entire time we were working back to back shifts. All of us were now being required to work our regular three day 12 hour shifts, and on our off days we worked security at the gates. Officers could not do many things like takaing care of their laundry, many of us did not see our famlies for a long period, just enough time to get some sleep, then back to work. At the gates we all worked around 12-18 hours. To help us out, the Nevada National Guard was activated to perform gate duties. On November of that year, the first element of the Nevada National Guard Military Police Battalion came to the Presidio of Monterey to take over security. After they had been trained, the police department went back to regular police functions, but we still had to assist the National Guard if they needed our help. In 2005 I retired from the Presidio of Monterey Police Department with over 22 years. I have long since gone back to school at our local Community College, and I have a son that is in the Air Force who has been to Iraq, and Afthghanistan. I am glad of my service to my country, and if called back as a Police Officer I would not hesitate to join my fellow brothers & sisters. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? Facebook, Twitter, other social networks 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 10th Anniversary Collection Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question Honestly, my life wasn't changed much because I was so young at the time. I never really experienced the world in a pre 9/11 world How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I don't remember exactly where I was on 9/11, but I remember where I was where I heard about it. It was in 2nd grade, and our teacher, Mrs Cross, had all of us sit on the floor in the reading area of the room. I am not sure if it was September 11th or 12th. She was crying, and told us that we might see other adults crying throughout the day. She also told us about what happened to the World Trade Center. At the time, I didn't know what the WTC was, or what the significance of the attack was at the time, but this is how I will remember always remember 9/11 Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? Smithsonian website 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 10th Anniversary Collection Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question My life has not changed that dramatically compared to the people who had family members die on that tragic day, but i definitely get freaked out when the anniversary rolls around and i am scared of terrorists. I also pay more attention to what's going on in the world now by watching the news and reading the newspaper. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I will remember the attacks by watching the television shows that will be on about the attacks ten years ago. I will also remember it because there will be a lot of talk about it on the eleventh, especially since it is the tenth anniversary. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? American Social History Project 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 10th Anniversary Collection Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question It made me value life more than I did before. I lost someone very dear to my heart. It rocked me to my core that these people could come into our country and just take from us so violently for no reason other than ignorance. I cannot fly even though I suppose we have gotten safer when it comes to the American skies. I will never forget all of the brave people who gave their lives that day. I feel like we have all gained 2983 guardian angels, souls who will help us fight terrorism and keep us strong. I was 15 and 1/2 on 9-11-01. I was at school, in gym class when it started. We turned on the tv in our teachers office and all we could do is watch and be completely terrified. Our school made lots of announcements, but as things in NY got worse, peoples parents started pouring in to take their kids home for fear of something more coming. The teachers let us watch the coverage all day, they didnt know people would start jumping out of the windows. That screwed a lot of us up. Kids were in the hallways crying and losing it. I got home that day and hugged my dad harder than I ever had before. He sat with me and told me that My "uncle" Steve was there for business and his wife hadn't been able to get ahold of him. He was supposed to be on the 82nd floor of the second hit tower. I never got to see my uncle again after then. He left behind his wife and 3 kids ages 9,4 and a 3 week old baby. I hope he didn't suffer that day. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I will get together with my family and watch a lot of the coverage, mostly anything coming from ground zero. I will pause for the moments of silence. I will light a candle for my uncle because I know his flame will keep burning even though he is no longer on this earth. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? Facebook, Twitter, other social networks 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 10th Anniversary Collection Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question profound effect. i made a film. http://abledanger.de/ Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? News media