8 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 will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I was in my 5th grade classroom when the September 11th attack happened. I remember wondering why my teacher was crying and why all the adults seemed to be so frantic. Our teachers were not allowed to tell us what happened because they didn’t want to scare us. When I got home my mom was watching the news (which she never does) and I saw a burning building on TV. I asked my mom what the big deal was, it was just another fire, it happens all the time. It wasn’t until years later when I would fully understand what that burning building meant to our country and how America changed forever that day. 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 my life has changed drastically just like everyone else. since i was little i do not exactly remember that day except i got to leave early and the teachers could not tell any of the students what happened and we all had to ask our parents. now i feel for the families who lost loved ones because that year i also lost my father due to heart failure. when i now look back at that and all the years to come i just think about how much pain they go through every year. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? Center for History and New Media https://www.911digitalarchive.org/files/original/97fa796cf10094f67f38ed67540696a2.jpeg 211e5aef65a0b0c6a7a05fbf96e8fe78 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Height 7393 Width 2970 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 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. 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/. Description An account of the resource After the 9/11 destruction of the New York City World Trade Center, Lisa Frigand a project specialist in economic development for the city's utility company Con Edison, was closely involved with the rebuilding of downtown Manhattan. Her efforts were often stymied by the web of individuals, groups and organizations involved. This could have been overwhelming, but fortunately she knew Mind Mapping specialist, David Hill, also of Con Edison. He had already introduced her to Mind Mapping. Ms. Frigand and Mr. Hill worked together gathering information from hundreds of sources including reports, brochures, magazines and the Internet, to create a poster-sized Mind Map of all the parties involved in the restoration of lower Manhattan. The main branches they created were government, civic, infrastructure, properties, victims and memorials. They also identified what was created after 9/11. When the map was completed, it showed everyone involved and their connections in a brain-friendly manner. People involved with the rebuilding effort were able to see, not only the big picture, but also the detail of this enormous effort. 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 changed drastically due to September 11th. I was in fourth grade and we were all called to auditorium to watch the news. I remember my teachers crying and hugging each other and I did understand why. I couldn't imagine the consequences of that day, nor the effect it would play in my life. My father, who was in the National Guard Reserves, was activated that day and went down to the city. My future brother-in-law was there too, funnily enough he recognized his ambulance in one of my fathers photos years later. About a year and a half later he was deployed to Iraq for a year and just like that my father was out of my life. From 12 to 13 all I saw of him was through Skype and I would read the letters he sent to us. He built mess halls, schools, and other building for the Iraqi people, who he said where very friendly; something you never hear about on the news. Even though he came very close to losing his life when a suicide bomber found his way into his mess tent, he came back to us after his deployment. Just thinking that the fact that he and his friends were running a little late, determined what happened that day makes me shutter. My older brother was a senior when my father was deployed and he made the decision to go into the Navy. He served 5 years doing deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Japan. Thank God that they both made it through without any physical scars, and are both retired proud veterans of our country. My heart goes out to all of the soldiers who fight to for us, and also to the families who also sacrifice so much. Be strong. <3 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 was in 3rd grade when my class and I were informed of the the event. I did not know what to do or how to act, I had no idea what was going on. Our teacher informed us that the Twin towers had been attacked, and America was under attack by terrorist. a word I have never heard of in my life at the time. I was confused. 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 Since that forever memorable day, I have witnessed America becoming more cautioned about security on every aspect of who and what and how anyone, or anything comes into the country. How it has become "OK" to wiretap homes, businesses,personal phones. How acceptable corruption has become. People have no faith in our government. Congress's polls are the lowest they've ever been. 9-11 has brought out the best and definitely the worst in our country.It has made security stronger, united the country in a patriotic way but it also has been used to take advantage off as well. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I remember this day just like I remember the day of JFK"S assassination . I liken this day as well as to Hawaii on December 7th 1941. This day was a wake up call, that America is vulnerable. My Father, Ernest Whaley served in World war ll.I have mixed emotions about what these events symbolize to us as a nation and what this country needed, and needs to do to be what it claims it is. I PRAY! 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 I am 100% quits with the insipid, amoral nullity commonly known as multiculturalism. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question Same as at every anniversary: rage at the jihadists and The Jihad and its Muslim supporters and its idiotic Western enablers. 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 My life did not totally change because I was only 6 years old when the incident happen on September 11, 2001. I woke up at 7am to watch my favorite cartoon show but i found out that every single channel on tv and i was confused to what have happened. I did not fully understand the great impact upon america and what exactly has happened. When i went to school on that day, we had story and tell and i told everyone that tv was dominated by two buildings. Few years later, when i was 9 or so, i remember watching the videos on the towers falling on tv. I thought about those people in the building and surrounding. I guess this was a turning point in my childhood where the belief of the world being innocent shattered. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I would give my prayers for the families who lost a loved one and those people who lost their lives in the building and also the brave firefighters 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 I was only eight years old on the day the terrorist attacked the twin towers, to me things have become safer since all that happened. I read a lot of Tom Clancy novels and to me now that I'm 18, I understand that he had a knack for coming up with realistic situations that could happen to this country at a moments notice. Yes it seems like we're dealing with immigration, but I never had a doubt about our national security when it came to our country being ready for an attack at moments notice. To a child growing up the last ten years, it seems like barely anything past technology has changed, but to me, a lot of good has happened since all this crap happened to us at our unluckiest time. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I remember September eleventh as the day they evacuated our elementary school in Lansdale, Pennsylvania in fear that we'd get hit with a bomb or an air plane. Lansdale has a Merck facility there. School was closed for a day or more from what I remember. Some might think that an 8 year old can't understand all that is happening in the middle of the chaos that had just occurred. My fear was that my mother and father weren't safe. I remember the days after the attack left our country in shock that everyone was having a hard time dealing with it all, but that we perceived the time as one to be thankful for what we have and for what the future may bring us in the long run. This is a first hand account of a girl who remembers all the hell that went on and was only a four hour drive from where the flight 93 had crashed killing every one including those terrorist who thought they were spineless people, but only finding that they had enough guts and strength to take on those men and women who so bravely protected this country. 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 i think the whole world has changed. mainly because to much emphsis was put on the attacks. America should have built a bridge and gotten over it 9 years ago yes it was a horrible day but moving forward is better than staying on the same subject. Its like america is getting out a box of old chewed gum(representing their memories and ideals) about 911 and rechewing it over and over. It was rediculus how much news coverage they still have on the day... from ten years ago. The 911 certainly hasnt changed my life for the better. But it hasnt changed the world at all. America was attacked wow we go to war every year is that any different we are attacking other people you americans honestly didnt expect any retaliation from your actions did you? How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I wish i could forget them but honestly places like this website and movies and tv shows created so that people can remember forever make it hard. We dont need to be constantly reminded of one of americas biggest blunders. We need to be told its over and we dont need to worry anymore. Its americas fault those young boys got killed in iraq not the terrorists. 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 best friend's father died on september 11, ever since that day she changed completely, she lost her childhood. She is Muslim American and also wears a hajib thus after september 11 she was forced to deal with both the grief of her beloved father's death as well as the taunting of the nation and the media. Two years ago i moved to Australia, and even here it seems that anybody of Arabic Muslim decent is ostracized via media. People do not understand that it was fundamentalist who had caused the disaster, they also don't understand that there is more than one type of American, it is a multi-racial country and America as well as the rest of western civilisation, needs to work in unity. My best friend should not have been ostracized and she should not have been given taunting stares and put down because of her choice of faith and the race she was born into. Like many she was the victim of the attack in multiple ways, if anything she should belong to a group that wholistically acknowledges the importance of those who died on that dreadful day, and she should be part of a group that strives for the peace and harmony of first the nation of america, then the rest of western civilisation, then the rest of the world 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 I skipped some classes that day, because it was such a beautiful afternoon in Sarajevo. I went to my friend's place. We had the usual afternoon coffee. She lived in Germany for a while, and used to watch German TV. Pro7 was on, and we were watching back then popular talk-show hosted by a black girl, I believe her name was Arabella or something like that. At some point, a video appeared in the lower right corner, showing a plane smashing into a skyscraper. I though to myself, I must see this movie, it looks so realistic. When the second plane hit the tower, I think a ticker in German appeared under the video. My friend said, this is not a movie. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? News media https://www.911digitalarchive.org/files/original/29a1f8ba41e352ea423f374fc03989a6.jpg d414ea04dfd4f15a3fc74d5d1509cc2c Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Height 441 Width 924 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 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question Been trying to understand why man would attack man. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I was a teenager at the time; ten years later, the pictures are still vivid in my head! 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/. Description An account of the resource On September 11 2001, terrorists attacked World Trade Centre and Defense HQ claiming lives of innocent victims. Today, and exactly 10 years after the first plane struck, America observes a one minute silence nationwide in stamping the memory of those who lost their lives. https://www.911digitalarchive.org/files/original/3afc13d26c9971e5cf5a31f1ec3441d7.JPG f919b2b5266f985201a70faf1a4aa90c Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Height 1944 Width 2592 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 Here, I will recount my 9/11 story, as written shortly after the attacks. However, before beginning, it must be understood that I had gotten into a car accident a few months before at a notorious intersection called the Somerville Circle, near Somerville, NJ. (The heavy traffic and the bad traffic-circle design contributed to car wrecks.) Because of that accident, I was in court on September 10, 2001. I had somehow escaped penalty for this incident, because it was perhaps my first car accident, and this showed up the next morning upon waking up. "On the Eleventh of September, I had been in bed laughing in the AM, for I was in such a good mood. Then I turned the computer on in the dorm (Hardenbergh, fifth floor, at Rutgers University), and (of course) the AOL instant messenger ticker came on... and the first headline was something like, "World Trade Center towers under attack" - so I promptly turned on my brand-new TV. On it, a fearsome scene of a World Trade Center tower with a big fearsome hole in it. I then saw that tower go down - and, of course I was angry. I was also afraid - because they had shut Manhattan down and made my uncle & others a bunch of sitting ducks, and also because I was worried that biological agents might've been aboard the wrecked planes. I later realized that the planes' fires would've burned away any such agents, but I was still rather jumpy for the next few days - mostly [waiting] for the sound of a wailing siren, carrying some of the wounded to New Brunswick... ouch." "Of course, if I had known that NYC would be foolhardy enough to build a self-destructing emergency center next to the WTC, I'd have realized that Giuliani and Co. really were idiots... sorta... when it comes to disaster." Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? News media https://www.911digitalarchive.org/files/original/4529bc39c244d17cc166187f39814dac.JPG f3a8bec7cd43964244a24e8c49ffa64b Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Height 1944 IPTC Array a:1:{s:7:"caption";s:57:"Reaction to the 9/11 attacks shortly after they occurred.";} IPTC String caption:Reaction to the 9/11 attacks shortly after they occurred. Width 2592 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 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question The first thing it did was remove the TKTS stand in downtown Manhattan (it was in the foyer of the World Trade Center). We used to buy Broadway tickets there. Then 9/11 effectively banned us from Manhattan for a few months out of fear (of the air pollution, at least; perhaps some biological agents in the beginning). When I got a job the next summer, it was on the west side of Manhattan and I was able to get pretty close to ground zero. I marveled at how it changed over the next few years, but I remembered how the WTC used to look. As for the Pentagon and Pennsylvania, those were sideshows; it's obvious that most of the tragedy took place in Manhattan or on the airplanes themselves. My uncle was perhaps the closest person I knew to the attacks (a few blocks away); he was in an office building at the time and didn't see much of the tragedy in person; however, he went uptown to get to his son afterwards and both fled Manhattan. Others that I knew had flights canceled due to the attacks. As for me, I had been shocked at this sudden turn of events, given that I had gotten relieved of penalties in court from a car accident the night before (and had thus been pretty happy BEFORE I heard about the attacks). The shock gave way to anger and a quite jittery feeling over the next few days. 9/11 also reared its ugly head again on the Henry Hudson 400th anniversary (Hudson had landed around September 11, 1609, and so a 9/11 anniversary cropped up around the same time as the Hudson anniversary.) I saw the ceremony from the WFC, on the rainy day of 9/11/2009, and noticed the "9/11 truthers" and other assorted characters protesting not too far from ground zero. (Then, of course, I went on to the happier festival surrounding Hudson's discovery of Manhattan, which was down on the Bowling Green, within a long walk of ground zero.) How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question It was Grandparent's Day at the Chelsea assisted living facility, in East Brunswick. They had all sorts of American patriotic decorations about, due to the anniversary of the attacks, but Grandparent's Day is not related to the attacks and just happens to coincide with the anniversary. However, the 9/11 anniversary gave me an additional reason to go to the Grandparent's Day festivities (i.e., so I could avoid trouble by staying out of NYC). 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/. Description An account of the resource This was one of a few pages in my old sketchbook that referenced the 9/11 attacks. It was probably done a couple of days after the disaster. Some gallows humor, as well as the usual feelings of anti-Osama revenge and depictions of the WTC. The angel who is bemoaning his boss was probably told to stay put in the WTC after the airplane hit, obeyed, and thus suffered the fatal result. I admittedly poked fun at Paul Bunyan (!) and structural experts on the WTC, as well as put forth nonsense about the pilots of flight 93 not being able to read a map straight, but there were more serious references as well: me being angry at the "Taliban" for attacking "my city" (New York, although I was living elsewhere at the time), a fly stinging a "sleeping giant" of a beast, and two items urging America to strike back. 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 “Due to the Circumstances of Today”: The U.S. House of Representatives Remembers September 11, 2001 http://oralhistory.clerk.house.gov/historic-events/september-11/ As part of its ongoing oral history program, the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives, unveiled a new project commemorating the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. This event-based oral history compilation features eyewitness accounts from former Representatives, House officials, and employees about 9/11 and the day’s subsequent effect on the institution. “Due to the Circumstances of Today”—the quotation used in the title of this project—was the language inserted into the Congressional Record to explain the emergency recess on the morning of September 11th. Divided into four broad themes—September 11, 2001, Reaction and Response, Security and Safety, and In Retrospect—the Web site includes video and audio clips of interviewees reflecting on their personal experiences of that tragic day and the weeks and months that followed. Also included on the Web site is a compilation video, “September 11, 2001: A Narrative,” of unique perspectives from the House on 9/11, a series of images and artifacts related to the history of the House and the attacks, a timeline of the day’s events, and a contribution form for those who worked at the House on 9/11 and would like to share their experiences. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? Center for History and New 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 I am contributing my writing on 9-11/Users/Choman/Desktop/Nine-Eleven.pdf How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question By praying for the victims Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? News media https://www.911digitalarchive.org/files/original/d4548b1049ef39710cc7c649a0a3003b.jpg 560a883df935d51c804b9a3d57ea45ae Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Height 288 Width 360 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 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question MY COMPASSION HAS NEVER FAILED AND WILL ALWAYS CONTINUE FOR ALL OF THE 9-11 FALLEN AND THEIR FAMILIES. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question CONTINUE TO PRAY TO GOD THAT THERE WILL BE NO OTHER SUCH ATTACK ON 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/. Description An account of the resource CLOUDS FORMED AS HANDS UPLIFT THE TWIN TOWER IMAGES SKYWARD. FOR THE 10TH REMEMBRANCE OF 9-11/Users/Choman/Desktop/Nine-Eleven.pdf 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 Grandma is strong. Whenever I look at her she is doing something for somebody to the best of her ability, whether its feeding the family, playing with the grandchildren, sewing something up or grabbing the broom and whipping the filth out of her house after one of the many parties she holds. She has always put on a brave face in any situation and come out stronger and faster than anyone else involved. I admired her for that. But I will never forget the day that my strong grandma cried. The day started like all the others, slowly, happily and calmly. My grandpa was making his famous bread in the kitchen while grandma bustled around the table dishing out steaming hot eggs and warm Jersey bagels toped with cream cheese and butter. The kitchen table was heaped with every breakfast food imaginable with a couple desserts from the previous night thrown in. Sprawled in chairs all around the feast was my family, aunts and uncles, cousins and sisters, some slowly waking up to the smell of coffee and others diving into the food. It was another normal day at my grandparents. That day my aunt who normally took the 45 min train ride into New York City for work, called in sick and curled herself on the couch in front of the TV. Every thing was peaceful and lazy, nothing out of the ordinary. I continued through my day playing and eating, eating and playing. Then everything changed. Everything. My aunt screamed from in the parlor sending all of us running from our respective places. Grandpa bolted from the stove, Uncles from the basement and Grandma from her room all of us meeting in a large crowd behind my aunt our eyes glued to the TV. There was the most horrifying scene I ever thought possible. There was one of the tall beacons of the NY skyline up in smoke. Before I could say anything, my wrist was grabbed by my dad as he ran towards our car. Everything was a blur. I remember looking in the back seat and seeing my brother fumbling with his seatbelt as dad pelted out of the drive way and down the road. With in seconds we were trudging through the sand half tripping half running towards the beach. Then I saw it. The building that I had grown up watching flicker its lights across the bay was on fire, the smoke it caused reaching up into the sky like a dark cloud. I could smell the smoke as the wind shifted it over the water and I felt my eyes smart as the gray vapor made its way over to me. Then with out warning a speck the size of a lima bean came into view and to my horror headed straight towards the second building. I could tell by its shape what it was, and I could also tell by the effect it had on the building that it did not miss it. The second building erupted into fire and smoke sending more smells and sounds across the bay. I watched as little objects fell down the side of the building. They weren't on fire, and they were not gray like stone or any other material you would expect coming from a burning building. I looked at them and then at Dad. "What are those?" I asked, realizing from his face that I didn't want to know the answer. " Those are people," he said grimly, "trying to escape." Right then and there the horror hit me full force. Not two days earlier I had taken a shopping trip with my aunt to New York City, running through all the major shopping malls and finally taking a tour through the tallest buildings in Manhattan known as the Twin Towers. Now I stood watching them fall, suprisingly fast I found out later, but at the time so glacially slow and dreadfully long. My body felt numb as I turned and stumbled back to the car. When we got home all was quiet as every one was either crying or spending time alone behind closed doors the shock of what had happened shattering the happy life we were living not 2 hours before. I went into the kitchen and saw no one but Grandma, her old apron held in fist fulls by her aging hands. Walking over I slipped my arms around her to give her a hug and looked into her eyes where I saw the first tear I had ever seen sloshing over the rim. I had seen my grandma cry, I had watched the Twin Towers fall, and I had witnessed one of the saddest days in our hometown and all of our great nation. I will never forget that day, seared into my memory like the hot metal that fell from the buildings... the day my grandma cried. 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 changed because honestly the world around me became more scary. I was 10 years old when September 11, 2001 took place, and during my childhood I assumed that America was a very safe place. I was too young to fully understand what was really happening, but I did understand that something powerful and completely tragic had taken place, and that things were going to be a lot different from then on. Up until that day in my life, I had not experienced war or violence in America, and now I am always reminded of the attacks on September 11, 2001. It is something that should never be underestimated or forgotten. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I plan to pray for the safety to the people of our nation and for safety of all people in the countries of the world, and to also ask God to provide peace, strength and courage to all of the families who have lost loved ones during September 11, 2011. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? Center for History and New Media