9 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 I remember I was 10 years old sitting in my science class that morning. All of our classes had televisions in them and the news was on all day replaying the events of the attack. I remember not understanding the complexity of the situation. I also don't remember the teachers actually teaching anything that day. We all just sat in silence knowing that something bad did happen. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I plan on visiting the memorial in New York as soon as possible. My boyfriend, his roommate and I have been watching the 9/11 specials that have been playing for the past two weeks before the 10th anniversary and I couldn't believe how much attention and detail they put into the memorial. I cannot wait to go and see it and hope all of the families who were hurt by this day know that there are thousands of people like me who care deeply about their loss of loved ones. <3 Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? American Social History Project https://www.911digitalarchive.org/files/original/511d06039ea65b0e94ce400f6b0196eb.jpg b81990569019ab278971bdce326b2eee 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 2272 Width 1704 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 a teacher's assistant in San Antonio, Tx who was tutoring students who needed extra help when a 1st grade teacher from across the hall came in and whispered into my ear that the first tower had been hit by a plane. I had assumed it was an accident. (It had never occurred to me to use our own plane as a weapon.) After my students went back to their classroom I walked across the hall after the 2nd tower had been hit and just as the pentagon had been struck. This really frightened me to think that our heads of military could even be hit. (I worked as a civilian in DC during the Viet Nam war and often went to the Pentagon. I just assumed that rockets would open up in self-defense!) Terrorism is an ugly word. I remember reading a book about the Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland. A Libian was held responsible who put a bomb in a transistor radio on board. This first made me angry killing innocent people. But after 9-11 I was very angry because these cowards used OUR PEOPLE, OUR PLANES, OUR INNOCENT AMERICANS to carry out their evil deeds! What kind of religion kills innocent people? Remember after 9.11 on TV they showed hundreds of children and people cheering because nearly 3000 American's were killed? This made me ANGRY! 9.11 was on a Tuesday and on Wednesday night our church has Wed night Bible Study. I remember we all NEEDED to hold hands when we prayed for the families and our nation. We felt close not only as Christians but as Americans. I'm so thankful now for our military who defend our freedom and even policemen and firemen who keep us safe. I'm THANKFUL for ALL. I PRAY more for our nation. We must all remember that there is evil in this world who is trying to destroy us and WE NEED GOD to HELP us. We ALL must KEEP praying... GOD BLESS AMERICA!! How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I will go to worship GOD at church and be thankful for our nation, for freedom, for our strong military, for our soldiers for are fighting to keep us free, for our nation, for our families and for GOD TO CONTINUE TO BLESS AMERICA! I will also fly our US FLAG! 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 Because of the horrible attacks we suffered from, and all the loses that occured I now have a different perspective on life. Even though I was young when the event occured, I still understand the events that happened. Of course I understand more now. I cherish life now. I tell my mom I love her every day. I try not to take things for granted, and not let the hurtful things people say get to me. I want to cherish every day as if it's my last because you never know when something can happen as we all know. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question On the anniversary I did have a moment of silence in memory of those lost. I also wrote a paper about the attacks. 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 I will forever have the date September 11, 2001 imprinted in my heart. It was a very confusing and overwhelming day for me, being only nine years old. The attacks occurred while i was sitting in my third grade teacher, Mrs. White's class. While carrying out our usual daily activities, the classroom was disrupted by an announcement made over the loud speaker, urging for all staff members to lock the doors of our classrooms and all surrounding doors. Being such young children, my peers and I were very nervous and confused as to why this was happening. All of the teachers were in such a panic that it made matters even more terrifying. We were never notified in school of what happened. Just like every other day, I got off of the bus at my best friends house. Her mother was practically in tears when she informed us about the attack. We spent the next few hours watching the horrific scenes on the news, only having an iota of an idea of what was actually going on. Looking back at that day still gives me a chilling feeling all over my body. To remember the September 11 attacks on the anniversary, I say prayers for all of those who have been personally affected by this day. 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'm a Londoner and I live in the UK. I don't know anyone personally who lives in New York. I guess I'm sharing my story because I felt touched by the event. When 9/11 happened I was on an anti-arms trade demonstration in the Docklands area of London. Somewhat despicably, the UK, like the US and a whole load of other nations, then and now, makes a pile of money selling weaponry and torture items to a whole bunch of people, not all of them defenders of human rights. A friend of mine phoned me, worried for my personal safety, asking me whether I'd heard about the WTC. I replied that I'd heard something about a plane hitting the building and that we'd all assumed that it was some kind of small plane. My friend slightly hysterically told me that it was a 767 and that the building was on now on fire. At the time, she worked for Ford and they were evacuating all of their buildings and offices across the world. I was her last call before leaving. I went straight home and turned on the TV. The images that I saw will stay with me for the rest of my life. One that I particularly remember is of a man and a woman, jumping to their deaths (rather than be burnt alive) hand in hand. I always wondered if they were lovers, friends or just colleagues who clung to each other in their last, desperate moments. Terribly, terribly sad. I cried continuously at the horror that I witnessed that day. Even now, as I write this years later, I have a heaviness in my heart and tears in my eyes. It was one of the most truly awful things I've ever seen. As always of course however, the world spins on, (although for some of us, time has stopped forever) and two things touch me ten years on. The first is that, the memorial that has been built, and more specifically the waterfalls that flow into the voids left by the twin towers, are truly beautiful and, for me at least, a very poignant reminder of the fact that thousands of human beings died. Simple. Clean. Very, very powerful. The second is that, maybe unsurprisingly, the world isn't a better place and we haven't learnt very much from the experience at all. The arms fair, (DSEi) that I was demonstrating against is still running and the UK still sells, along with the US and a whole bunch of other nations, weaponry and torture items to a whole bunch of dodgy regimes. The war on 'terror' is a complete and utter phoney war because it can never, ever be truly won or ended. The only solution to hatred and ignorance and terror and fear is dialog, discussion, debate and yet more dialog. No one really wants to die, but until we have a global society that is truly equitable and egalitarian, just and fair, some mad and crazy people will think that an appropriate response is to blow themselves, and others to smithereens. It's not, and it never will be, but in my mind it's clear that if we want to truly make sure that no more human lives are wasted, ever, by this kind of tragedy, the only long term solution is peace, not war. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question Quietly, and with an occasional tear. 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 Although I was only five years old when the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon happened I will never forget the day. I remember the panic of the teachers in my kindergarten class and who my mother picked me up form school even though she promised I could take the bus because I liked the driver. My father came home early that day, which was odd, I later learned he left his office in Philly and walked to Boathouse Row before someone gave him a ride. I don't remember the days after 9/11 but in December my family took a trip to Aruba and the security was extra high. I remember thinking anyone of the people on my plan could kill us and I was fearful the whole plan ride. Over time I got use to the airport security's long lines and their close check off baggage. I don't remember going on a plane before 9/11 but my parents tell me it was a lot different than it is now. I can't even begin to image the horrors that the victims and there families went through. God Bless them and God Bless America. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I will start the day the same way I do every year. I will watch the TV specials about the day. It is heartbreaking to see the victims families as the mourn their lost loved ones. I also say a silent prayer for those lost and their families so they can find peace in the horrible tragedy. 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 Because of September 11, 2011 I am more aware of my surroundings now. No matter where I go, or what I do, I pay attention to everything around me. Also, my love for this country has strengthened because of 9/11. I watched people lose their lives, and saw how this country got together to help each other. It was an experience I will never forget. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I will remember 9/11 by watching the news, memorials, and crying. I will also pray for all the lives lost on that horrific day, and hope the victims families have some peace in their hearts. My childhood friend Michael Lynch, who was a FDNY firefigher, died in Tower 2. I will pray for his family and his kids who will have to grow up without their dad. 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 Its made me relize that thinqs may not happen where I live but thinqs happen everywhere. And we need to come together as a nation ndd be one, no matter what was going on before the occusion happened. becuase you never know when somethings going to hit close to home. !! :) R.I.P. tuu all the victims thats died !! How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question Doing something nice. 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 I am more fearful , of my government and of other governments. I guess i dont trust those in authority and am more inclined to wonder what others motives are. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I went to see a performance at local community college. What struck me was the display of the empty fireman jacket boots and helmet. To me that represented such a loss. the men and women who had filled those jackets and boots,gone. gave me chills. 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 I was in the forth grade on when the towers were atacked. The teacher came in and told us what had happened. Later in the day we had a Q/A time and I remember one of my classmates asking "If the terrists had used remote control to fly the planes?" When the teacher told us that no the terrists had been on the plane and had died along with the passengers in the crash, it was a whole new consept to me, I could not see how anyone could hate america so much that they were willing to kill themselves if it meant killing americans. Later we had inside resses and all of us guys made a tower out of jinga blocks then we took a lego man and labled his osoma we put our "lego osoma" inside the tower and took turns knocking over the tower with osoma inside so he could suffer like the people in the twin towers did. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I watched the rising rebuilding ground zero documentary on science channel as well as some other documentarys about it on netgeo 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 Yes, my life has changed. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I am writing a school project on the subject of 911,. 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 Yes, my life has changed. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I am writing a school project on the subject of 911,. 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 remember I was in 4th grade when the towers were attacked. The teacher came in and told us what had happened. Latter that day all the 4th grade classes met in one place and the teachers had a question and anwser time. I remember one kid asking "how the terrists flew the plane, like was it remote controlled or something? " When the teacher told us that the terrists had killed themeselves along with the victims ithat was a whole new idead to me. I had never thought of a person hating and wanting to hurt america so much that they were willing to hurt themselves just to make it happen. Later that day we had inside recces and us guys made a tower out of jinga blocks, then we took a lego man and wrote osama on him in a marker, We placed out "lego osama" in the tower and took turns knocking to tower down with osoma inside. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I watched the science channel rising documentary 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 I'd like to tell you about an incredible individual -- Mike Bellone -- one of the recovery worker volunteers at Ground Zero in New York. I met him about a year after Sep 11. He worked at Ground Zero every day for the entire 9 months the site was open. He started the TRAC Team sometime that year and has a new book out describing his experience. www.tracteam.org. He's an amazing individual and his story, like many of the recovery workers needs to be told. He is an true inspiration and someone that I had such admiration and respect. Here's a short clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRYJYOHqAto Mike was selected by CBS because he worked at Ground Zero for 257 consecutive days from 9/11-6/12 (even thought the site officially closed May 30, there was additional recovery work). It’s amazing what he and so many others did. For him to be in the company of these heroes is feat in of itself, along with the acknowledgement and recognition of his efforts! 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 My whole life changed that day, so did the lives of so many others. I actually don't consider myself a witness, but rather an active participante since my colleagues and I were responsible for the American Airlines Boston Flight Service team and Flight Attendants on Flight #11. The first flight involved. Two of our Flight Attendants - Amy Sweeney and Betty Ong - called us with vital information on what was happening onboard. This information that they provided gave all of us, including the authorities -- critical informatin that lead to detemining who these terrorist were and further assisted the other 3 airplanes in taking action. We all had a special role to played in the days, weeks, and months that followed. We lost our friends, colleagues, our sense of safety and security, and our livelihood. Families and friends of those that perished that day -- lost much, much more. We shared that lose together, especially for our crew member familes who we assisted. My colleague and friend Rosemary Dillard was the Base Manager for Flight Service in Washington DC and I was the head of Flight Service in Boston. She drove her husband Eddie to Dulles airport that morning to catch American Airlines Flight #77. She had more than a double dose of tragedy. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I was recently interviewed by the Boston Globe and they video taped me for 2 hours, along with my colleague Jim Sayer, who was on the phone with our Flight Attendant - Amy Sweeney and collected all the vital information that was provided to the FBI. The writer for the Boston Globe is Eric Moskowitz Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? News media https://www.911digitalarchive.org/files/original/068d8fdef194308aa64cac39ebc0c245.jpg 4256ca849bf8babe23aead8b37e41cca 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 608 Width 896 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 London, England September 11, 2001 "I want you to listen to me very carefully…" At first, the trained-to-soothe voice of our Boeing 777's pilot created barely a blip on the radar screen in my brain. I was thinking how good it felt to be flying back to Florida after ten days of business meetings. The to-do list I'd been adding to since my arrival in London was beckoning, even appealing. Little did I know that our world would be forever changed---I would not arrive home that evening and consider myself lucky returning to the United States four days later. "…This is the real thing." The second part of the announcement created a slightly larger blip on my radar screen. I thought back to the morning that had begun so auspiciously. After arriving at the airport for my 1140 morning flight from London to Atlanta, I checked in with a counter agent who suggested that I consider the 0940 Delta flight that would be boarding in 45 minutes. I thought there was nothing wrong with getting home two hours earlier, and even better, the seat next to me was empty. It stayed empty until just before departure, when a twenty-something Yemeni sat down reading a magazine in Arabic. Since there were two empty seats across the aisle, I suggested to my new seatmate that I would move to take advantage of the extra space. As I moved, he introduced himself as Mohammed, telling me that flying for him was free, one of the benefits of his job as an airline baggage handler. Mohammed was dressed in basic western style. He wore a black leather jacket and jeans. I thought it unusual that he also wore a pair of dress slacks over the jeans. I suppose this was his way of dressing up or down depending on the occasion. The slacks were loose enough to pull over the jeans. It was also obvious that English was a second or third language for him even though he claimed to have lived in the US for many years. Go figure. I would say that his proficiency of the English language was poor but a lot better than my Arabic. Mohammed was a nice guy in the wrong place at the wrong time just like many others traveling on that day. He understood why I was moving across the aisle; I'd wanted to make sure that I hadn't offended him. The Boeing 777 rolled down the runway, and four hours later, somewhere over the North Atlantic, our pilot spoke on the intercom. "Planes are crashing into buildings in New York, and the FAA will not allow us to return to the United States. We are flying to St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada ---about 130 miles from where we are now. We will have more information when we are on the ground. There is nothing wrong with the aircraft but we have a national emergency.” After landing, the flight crew broadcast CNN from the cockpit through the intercom and we learned of the unfolding tragedy at the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and western Pennsylvania. About 4300 passengers and crew from 27 international flights were diverted to St. John’s (the capital of Newfoundland). To put this in perspective, St. John’s international airport handles perhaps four of five international (large jet) flights weekly. Now they were besieged with 27 jumbo jets and thousands of multinational passengers. We remained on the aircraft for ten hours until we were allowed to be processed through customs and into one of 90 waiting school buses that whisked us off to the town’s sporting arena. Once at the arena the highly efficient Canadian Red Cross assigned us to one of several shelters established to accommodate this unexpected influx of travelers in a city of only 30,000. And by the way, we were told that all carry on luggage would stay on the aircraft. Women were allowed to take a handbag but no more. We could not have been more dependent and at the mercy of St. Johns, the city that was about to become our home for the next four days. Our trust could not have been better placed. For those passengers on my flight, we were sent by bus to Holy Heart of Mary High School that instantly became a dormitory. Mats and pillows were provided for sleeping. Classrooms and the gymnasium became bedrooms. Students and teachers did everything possible to put us at ease. Classes were cancelled and the students and teachers became volunteers, providing us with everything from meals to transportation and entertainment. Social workers and nurses were available around the clock, dispensing medications and advice as were free telephones, television, and internet services to help the stranded passengers. The Canadian hospitality was as enthusiastic and welcoming as the day was dark and tragic. Local businesses and citizens donated food, clothing, services, and even rooms in their homes. The idea though was to keep passengers from all the various flights together to make things more manageable when the time came to depart. Citizens, for example, volunteered to serve as chauffeurs taking passengers in their cars on sightseeing trips to the top of Signal Point overlooking the city, museums, whale watching, or even Wal-Mart. They brought us into their homes for showers or just to visit, sip wine or drink coffee. One example of typical St. John’s hospitality was when a group of us walked into the school parking lot and a woman sitting in her van asked us if she could drive us anywhere. Her name was Victoria, a pediatrician with some free time and a desire to help any of the stranded passengers. It soon became obvious that the Canadians are truly our best friends and perhaps the most altruistic people in the world. Because nobody knew when we’d be leaving, St. John’s stores did a brisk business of selling clothing and souvenirs. Finally, on day three of our stay I went to an ATM and withdrew Canadian dollars with the belief that this would help ensure our return flight. It did. At 3:30 the next morning I was awakened to an intercom blasting the announcement that a bus would collect us at 4:30 to take us to the airport for security processing and return to the United States. Observations Mohammed kept a low profile during our time in St. John’s. He explained to me that he was the only one pulled aside and frisked at the airport after we disembarked. He was concerned about the harassment and generalizations that he expected to receive upon his arrival back in hometown New York City. At the same time he realized too that the world was changed and that many more innocent people would also perhaps become victims to evil in one way or another. Lasting friendships were formed among many of the passengers. I met Reggie, a retired caterer, and his wife Margaret from Oxford, England enroute to their winter retreat in Sarasota, Florida. Darren, a London based human resources consultant and I became instant friends. Another passenger that I met was Jay, a Center for Disease Control (CDC) biostatistician going home to Atlanta from a month in Zimbabwe. Another couple from London, Ella and Ed, were on their way to Destin, Florida, for a week’s vacation. Andy and Gina were returning to Baltimore from a honeymoon in Italy, and Mick was heading back to his engineering firm in Idaho. Perhaps not surprising was that when discussing the events of 11 September with the airline flight crew, the realization merged that the "fun of flying" and serving onboard had changed forever. The relationship between passenger and crew had fundamentally shifted overnight. As the first international arrival back in Atlanta, airline staff could be seen on the tarmac waving American flags and waving to passengers. Although the international terminal was empty we received a warm welcome to applause and “welcome home!” by the Delta airline employees. It was a powerful experience to be detained in St. John, Newfoundland, Canada for four days, and witness first-hand, in a time of crisis, the remarkable strength of human compassion and realization of what truly matters most in life. 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 was ten years old, living in Oregon of all places. I had never been to New York and I had no ties to New York at the time...I was still sleeping in my parents' bed. But I knew something awful had happened, not by what I was seeing on the news, not by watching the second plane fly into the tower. But by watching my father cry. I remember that no one would explain what was happening, and I remember being plagued by that child-like frustration...but when I went to school that day, one of my teachers had found a way to set up a television set in the classroom. He said, "I know you are all confused, and scared, and I am not suppose to be doing this, but I am going to break the rules and talk to you about this. There are some very bad people, very confused people in this world. And those people tore down two buildings. Tow building bigger than any you have ever seen before, and they killed a lot of people today. Be patient with your moms and dads because they are very sad. You will understand one day." And that was all I needed. He had explained it to me and I had understood. We all did. We cried together, fifth graders, in an Oregon classroom. And later that evening, I went into my backyard and picked a rose. I tossed that rose into our pond and offered up a prayer for all of the people who had been killed by the bad men. I may not have understood the details, but I felt a deep sadness and compassion for those who had fallen. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question Now, today, I am twenty years old. A student at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. I have a love for this city, a deep compassion for its people. I feel that it is important to bear witness again on this anniversary to that day. I have spent this September 11th watching documentaries like Saint of 9/11 and Portraits of 9/11. I have read stories of loved ones, memoirs dedicated to those victims survived by their families. I have reflected and prayed today. And most importantly I have cried. I have cried out of grief. I have cried out of humility. I have cried for those who have died and for those who have lived. I have cried for those I will never know and for those I am grateful to have known. And I have thanked god for this day, as if it were the last of mine on earth, and for the freedom to spend it doing exactly what I wished to be doing on this day. I have remembered, and I will always remember. 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 9/11 Remembrances When I was in college at New York University in the early 1970s, the World Trade Center was still under construction. We used to admire the lights twinkling in the twin towers at night from the rooftop of our tenement on Sullivan Street—SOHO was not a fashionable address in those days—its sleek towers rising day by day, cranes silhouetted against the night sky. We would gaze at that nighttime apparition always with an admixture of derision, regret, and awe—derision at its cold, rectilinear modernity (and because we were barely twenty years old, children of the Sixties, derisive of everything that the mainstream culture had to offer); regret at seeing the Empire State Building eclipsed; and above all perhaps, a disquieting awe at the ambition and hubris of a city that knew no bounds. After college I left New York for graduate school in Boston, and Manhattan and its landmarks faded from view. Life and years went on, most of my family dispersed to other states and cities, and New York became for me, as for so many others, a great place to visit. Although I used to joke that the truth was the opposite of the cliché—that New York was a great place to live, but I’d hate to visit there. Truthfully though, long before 9/11, New York had long ceased to feel anything like home. The morning of 9/11 was a beautiful, cloudless day, the sky a clear and vivid blue. Everyone who was on the East coast that day remembers that brilliant blue sky. My office phone rang a little after 9; it was a colleague who worked for me calling from our primary office down the hall. I don’t remember her exact words, but it was something to the effect that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon had been struck by planes and that our nation was under attack. I think it was at that moment that I looked out the window across to Harvard Yard and noticed the brilliance of the sky, the utter serenity of the day. After a moment of stunned speechlessness I raced down the hall, where other colleagues were gathered around a workstation streaming live images of the burning towers. We watched in stunned silence for an hour or more, until a decision was made to close the office, and most of us went home to be with our families. After the attack, there are two things that I remember most beyond all of the shock, tragedy, and national outpouring of grief, beyond the mesmerizing images of the billowing towers replayed endlessly on our television screens: a strong nesting instinct—buying flowers and other decorations for my home, surrounding myself with beauty—an urgent, procreative need for beauty—and paradoxically perhaps, a powerful desire to go to New York, to return home, to be with my city. No one understood this. I did not go, of course, until long afterward. Although personally untouched, so many of us knew someone who was affected on that day. My nephew was living in New York, and I worried for his safety and whereabouts. One colleague lost a brother on American Airlines Flight 11; another brooded over how often her children had taken that very flight alone to visit another parent on the West Coast. A close relative who lived across the river in New Jersey lost many neighbors in her town, where many worked in the financial industry. (I watched their names scroll by on the television screen during today’s 10th anniversary commemoration, only the name of the town familiar to me.) It was much later that I learned how a cousin who owns a restaurant in the Village worked to feed the recovery workers in the days and weeks that followed, and raised money for the families of the many firefighters in his precinct who lost their lives. Another vivid memory is the flags – flags everywhere, plastered in every home and shop window, hanging from every balcony and balustrade. Flags where you least expected them – in Cambridge (“the People’s Republic of Cambridge”) where I worked, and even at my own home. I only owned a flag because my father, a WWII veteran, had passed away several years earlier, and one was presented to us at his funeral. Suddenly it was neither tacky nor a distasteful display of patriotism – a sentiment with which I not only did not identify, but which I actively repudiated– to display an American flag. All at once the flag symbolized not a hideous and insular chauvinism, a glorification of American hegemony, but something far different: a transcendent national unity, an affirmation of the high ideals of a free and open society, an emblem of the essential bond that makes us who we are. Some colleagues derided this symbolic outpouring, maintaining all of the old, familiar associations–but to me, the meaning was new and different. We had been attacked; thousands had died; and the attack showed that we were different from our attackers. Whatever our national flaws, we stood for something good in the world, and that essential goodness defined us as a nation. On the three-month anniversary of the 9/11 attack, I was scheduled to give a talk on fair use at a local professional meeting, and I chose the flag as my theme. Cultural symbols are memes that penetrate our thinking and bind us to one another–a form of memetic expression without which a culture literally cannot flourish. “What if the American flag were copyrighted?,” I wondered – how would our ability to cultivate and nurture a sense of shared values be affected by the need to pay a fee every time we wanted to display the flag– or worse, found ourselves unable to display it? Which of those uses would we be able to justify as ‘fair?’ I made this the title of my talk, linking it to the impact that copyright restrictions have had on similar acts of cultural expression, such as the singing of God Bless America around a campfire and painting Disney characters on the walls of a preschool. At the end of my talk, it being December 11th, I indulged in a small rhetorical flourish that linked my theme back to the 9/11 anniversary, surprising myself with an emotional reaction that left my audience somewhat flummoxed. Nonetheless, I’ve always been fond of that paper, and regret never having published it. Somewhere it’s safely stored on CD, a function of my transit from one coast to another; and possibly on paper as well in some sequestered file. Perhaps I’ll dig it out for a future anniversary. 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 a portuguese girl and i was only six at the time of the attack and my parents were divorcing; the 11/9/2001 had started normally, had arranged lunch at the house of my grandmother along with my mother and my sister, everything seemed normal. But when around 12:23 (time in Portugal, +5 than in the U.S.A), I was greeted with the news program live from new york, a plane had crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. My eyes could not believe what they were seeing, I was petrified with all those people jumping from the towers. I can not imagine the worst sensation, having to choose between jumping (knowing that I would die), or stay and burn to death or die under the rubble of the towers. Even living in Portugal, where I was at home lying in my bed at night, when I heard the sound of an airplane I was crying in fear that he pounded the house. I know that the life of the American people was the most lost, but it was not the only, many other countries in the world have the same desire to combat all these suicide bombers who are still out there to end the lives of countless innocent people. my wishes for a great happiness for all the families who were physically incomplete (your children, parents, brothers, cousins​​, uncles and friends are always with you, not in body, but in spirit. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question the people's fears 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 My life has changed in so many ways.I feel as though I am seeing so much more racism than I did before towards anyone who looks muslim.People are living in fear of terrorists and feel that justice has not been served to those who have been hurt from what happened on 9/11. It is still so hard to hear that even after 10 years people are still reliving what happened and the attack still feels so real. I went and visited ground zero and you could still smell the burnt ashes. It felt so surreal . My distant cousin was a security guard in the towers and he died. I did not know him but just finding out that he was part of my family made me angry and sad for those who had their moms,dads,sisters,brothers, children and anyone close to them who died in the 9/11 attack. its horrible. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I will remember this day just like I did when it happened. I was not I was not in school like most kids because i had just moved to Boston and the process was horrid. I woke up to my mother crying in the living room watching as the towers fell. At first i had not realized the significance of what was really happening. I was in Newyork a month before the attack and me and my dad drove by the twin towers and he told me do you want to go on top of them on your birthday, that was in october. My dad and I do not have the best relationship so for him to ask me made me feel like things might get better. I know it may sounds selfish but when those towers fell the first thing i thought about was me and my dad and then i thought about all the girls whos fathers were actually in the towers or on the plane. That is when it really hit me. This attack destroyed families , relationships , people , everything. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? American Social History Project