1 20 271 https://www.911digitalarchive.org/files/original/ac4ade59b92c93bbbd5124f4aa7e5f88.jpg d79e3ddcc5805e5c1af8f9e2fdfc765a 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 617 Width 500 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 human spirit was validated for me. It was alive through recognizing the 100's of selfless volunteers that poured onto the World Trade Center and Pentagon sites. I was proud to see this nation could still come together during time of need. And I am honored to be a part of their recognition as heroes. 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/. Description An account of the resource Photo of award used nationally by American Red Cross Chapters to recognize 9-11 volunteers and Red Cross donors. Designed by Lyn Franklin Hoyt of Berkeley Tandem, Inc. in Nashville, TN. When Lyn got the call from ARC NHQ to design this special award appropriate photography was not available yet. This image was digitally created from photos in the Red Cross photo archive to depict a moment that might have happened at Ground Zero. Later awards did show actual pictures from the disaster sites. But, this award and photo captured the moment and stood to represent the heroes and the visual story that unfolded that day on 9-11-01. The inscription reads: "to VOLUNTEER Thank you for your generosity and support during this nations' time of need." Other text was then added to the certificate to personalize the inscription further. 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 was a beautiful september morning in wisconsin. I was working and had just stepped into the second building where the tv was located when I noticed everyone watching the television. Normaly I wouldnt think much of it but they looked like they were watching an action movie however all their faces were grim and one woman had tears streaming down her face. Just as I was about to speak I realized this was a special news event. They showed the first tower and kept saying that a small plane had hit the tower. I am an airplane buff and from the hole I saw I knew that this was no small plane. As I gazed in disbelief the second plane hit. At that very moment time stopped for me and everything seemed to go into slow motion. At that very moment I realized that nothing was ever going to be the same and the loss of life was horrendous. I knew that our economy would eventually employd and that we were in a state of war. I was 46 years old and still remember my 2 year engagement in the army during vietnam. I thought of all the live's that were going to be lost in the future and the blood that would be shed to keep our freedom's intact. I still cannot watch 9/11 footage without tears in my eyes. 10 years later does not diminish the anger I have and no amount of time ever will. My prayer is that I am long gone when the next world changing event occurs. 9/11 changed me from a happy go lucky guy that frivolously ran thru life into an introspective,faith based,and cautious person. I matured more that day, in those moments more than any other event in my life. I still beleive that this is the greatest nation on earth , but our greatness is in our diversity. We are strong because of our differences. 9/11 has made me a better human being and thats what all the lives lost have done for me. Their sacrifices have lifted us higher. My hope is that the rest of my life will reflect what their sacrifce gave to me How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question quit meditation, prayer and many tears for all those who have left us long before they were ment to. 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 9/11, I was living at a Tokyo university as an American exchange student. It was night there when the planes hit, and when dormmates screamed for me to come look at the TV because the World Trade Center was burning, I came and spent the next few hours watching the destruction with growing horror and grief. For me, the attacks were especially close to home because my home university was in Washington DC and my hometown is Pittsburgh. I grieved for those killed and those who lost loved ones. My heart broke at the hatred directed at my country and my fellow Americans, as though we were considered somehow less than human. I felt fear, helplessness and guilt that I couldn’t protect the country I loved. I felt confused: I considered no one my enemy and didn’t understand why someone considered me theirs, or why they felt violence was the only way problems could be solved. I felt very frustrated and helpless because I was so far away when it happened. I wanted so badly to be back in America, to be there to try to comfort people and to try to help in whatever way I could. I wondered what I could possibly do to help from so far away, and the feeling of uselessness made me incredibly sad. Still, I prayed and asked God to use me to do whatever good I could do from there, however small. And then, I got the idea to hold what came to be called the “Peace Vigil” at my Japanese university. It was designed as an opportunity for people to come together to remember the victims, to be in solidarity with them and each other and to comfort each other, to pray, and to discuss what we could do to build a more peaceful world. I had never organized something like this before, I had arrived at the university as a foreign student only ten days earlier and my Japanese skills were still limited, and I had no idea what kind of response I would get. Would people understand or even care? And yet, the response was overwhelmingly positive and touching. People, many of whom I had never met, American, Japanese, and others, volunteered to help plan and participate in the vigil. On the night of the vigil, about 60 people came, from at least 12 different countries, students, teachers, administrators, and others. It was a response beyond what I had ever imagined. We sang songs, shared prayers, poems, and letters, and had open time to share our feelings and discuss what we could do for peace. In this, and in the people who told me afterwards that they had felt comforted by the vigil, I felt comforted too. And the vigil inspired further action for peace. A group of us started a peace “club”, collected signatures for a letter to Pres. Bush asking for a peaceful response to the tragedy, held a fundraiser for the victims in America and later Afghanistan, sent messages of encouragement to the New York City firefighters, and made origami cranes as a traditional Japanese symbol of peace. The paper cranes of all different colors and sizes joined together to form a work of beauty and a message of hope and peace seemed to be a symbol that people of all different backgrounds and walks of life can join together to build a world of peace and love. 9/11 changed the direction of my life. I had always been interested in international affairs and service but unsure how to channel this. After 9/11 I felt a strong calling to devote my life to working for greater peace in the world, and in particular to work for relations of greater friendship and peace between America and the Muslim world, so that we could collaboratively and constructively address issues that cause tensions in relations, harm all of us, and are exploited or used as justification by terrorists for violence and hatred. When I returned to America, I began to study Middle Eastern studies and Arabic, and decided to enter the field of conflict resolution. I am now a conflict resolution specialist and trainer, and have worked for the past five years at an NGO in Washington DC that does conflict resolution work focused on the role of religion in peacebuilding. My main work has focused on working with Islamic teachers in Pakistan. I also joined the Soliya Connect Program as a facilitator of American-Muslim world and have been involved in cultural exchange, interfaith, educational, and peacebuilding initiatives in countries such as Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, the Palestinian territories, Israel, Indonesia, and the United States. In addition, I founded the American-Islamic Friendship Project (http://american-islamicfriendshipproject.blogspot.com/), which collects messages of peace and friendship from Americans to people in the Muslim world and from people in the Muslim world to Americans, to eventually be published in a book aimed building greater understanding and friendship between our countries by allowing the voices of “ordinary” people to be heard, dispelling the perception that Americans and people in the Muslim world are hostile to each other, and connecting Americans and people from diverse Muslim countries in promoting our common desire for a more peaceful world. Reflecting on 9/11 ten years later, while the pain and trauma of that day have never gone away, and terror attacks and violence continue to be an unfortunate reality in many parts of the world, I am also inspired by how many people, both in America and around the world, used that tragedy as an inspiration to make the world a better place in some way. In America there was an outpouring of solidarity with one's community, compassion toward one's neighbor, and service to one's society. While there were some Americans who responded by blaming or attacking Muslims, there were even more who stood guard outside Islamic centers to protect them from backlash, accompanied Muslims to school or prayers to ensure they wouldn't be harassed, or got involved in interfaith initiatives. Despite all of the conflict we’ve seen in the last decade, in the aftermath of 9/11, people in Muslim-majority countries gathered outside US embassies to express their solidarity with the victims. In America, families of those killed in the attacks formed groups like September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows to promote alternatives to violence and aid victims of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. There has been a flourishing of dialogue and initiatives like the UN Alliance of Civilizations, the Saudi interfaith summit, the outreach of peace through the "Common Word" letter from Muslim world leaders to Christian world leaders, and their enthusiastic response, "Loving God and Neighbor Together". The annual 9/11 Unity Walk in America commemorates the anniversary of 9/11 with a gathering of people from different faiths who pray together at various houses of worship to demonstrate solidarity against violence and unity as one human family. President Obama designated 11 September as the National Day of Service and Remembrance, so that the memory of that day might inspire people to recommit themselves to service to their communities. It’s things like that that remind me that no matter how horrible a tragedy, with faith, love, and the will to try, something good can be brought out of it, and that love will in the end triumph over hatred. The desire of people around the world to live together in peace will, I believe, someday overcome the hatred and violence of those who wish to drive us apart. And as Americans, I believe the greatest protection we can offer our country is to strive to do our best to live up to the values it was founded to embody—such as faith, service, God-given human rights, embrace of diversity, and respect and protection for each person no matter their ethnicity, religion, or history. If we live these values, the terrorists will never be able to destroy our country. And as citizens of the world, we can work together and each do our part to make the world a better place. We are never too far away to do something to make a difference. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I will participate in the Day of Service by volunteering at a school in DC, and in the national interfaith service and Unity Walk in DC. 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 I was 13 years old when the events of Semptember 11th, 2001 unfolded. I was a middle schooler at the time. While walking out of my 1st period French class, I heard bits and pieces of different conversations from other students. The only things I could pick up were that a plane had hit The Pentagon, and The Twin Towers. I exchanged my books at my locker and then proceeded to my 2nd period math class. From this point on, everything is blurry, every detail runs together, and it is from this point on that I begin to lose understanding. I took my seat in math, and there, our teacher told us what she knew, which was very little. The only thing I remember is her saying there were pictures of smoke coming from The Pentagon, but they didn't what exactly had caused it.We proceeded to have class as normal, and as that period ended, another began. This, I remember, was the only part of the day that would shed any clarification. This was the only class that actually let us see what was happening, and it was only for five minutes. I can't remember if I saw the 2nd tower fall live, or if what I saw was a replay.To this day, I still don't know. it was after that the tv was shut off and we proceeded on with class. I remember being so angry at not being let see what was happening to our country, happening to our other fellow Americans. I wanted to understand, I wanted to process what was happening, but I wasn't allowed. I was supposed to carry on as if it were a "normal day." That is how the school decided to handle it. Treat it as a normal day. We all knew it wasn't a normal day, so why treat it as one! I am angry at that still. The day proceeded on. I can't remember much of it. I can't remember what classes we spoke of the day's tragedies, or who I personally spoke of them to. The next bit of the day that I can clearly see is coming home from school, and sitting in front of the tv. A plane flew over our house producing sonic booms. Me and my sister dove behind the couch, cluthcing eachother in fear. We thought we were being bombed. I only remember bits and pieces of most the days to follow that day. I remember feeling scared to death and confused. I remember watching the tv coverage for 3 plus days more before we finally had the courage to change the channel. And I remember how wrong we felt when we did. I remember how from that day forward America united together, and showed the terrorists that they could not break us. That day, and the days to follow, every American became bound to one another, forever sharing a bond. And that's how we showed them they could not, nor would they EVER break us. Millions of people, strangers, people I will never even know exsisted, every single one of us are tethered. We are bound forever, and remain stronger forever. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I am 23 years old now. To this day, I still am not fully able to grasp the events that took place that day, and even the days, months, and rest of 2001 that followed. To this day, I still don't understand everything that happened, and I am afraid I never will. I watch documentries, read stories, and anything else I can to try to process it. I remember I had set my VCR to record a show of mine that day, and it instead recorded footage. I have watched some, but for some reason, have never been able to finish it. Maybe some day I will. I still have anger at my middle school for not allowing us to watch and absorb what happened. I think if we had been allowed to I might have a clearer understanding of that day, and maybe a better memory. But I dont know. Maybe some day I won't have anger anymore for something I can never change. Now, ten years later, I can try to bring myself to grasp ahold of that day. I will honor those who sacraficed their lives to save someone else, and honor those innocents who had their lives ripped away from them much too early. I will pray for their families, and for those who survived. Those who relive it every day of their life. Now, ten years later, I will remember everything I can from that day, and never forget it. Maybe some day I will understand it, and maybe I won't, but remembering is the best step I can take towards understanding. 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 9/11 really breaks my heart all year around, but this year it's just really overwhelming. 10 years and I remember where I was and what I was doing to the detail. So many tears our country has wept. I believe all Americans grew closer and have only overcome the tragedy that was 9/11. It's really hitting my heart now that I am older. When I was 9 I didn't understand... But just going over that day in my head I just feel for all the lives lost, families damaged, and great American heroes who risked their lives for America. All we can do is learn from the past and make sure this will never happen to our country again. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question Ft. Bliss/ El Paso, Texas is having a ceremony and My husband and I will be attending. 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 lived in Chicago. I had an appointment on 9/11/01 at 5pm to see a doctor about going on antidepressants. I'd never been on any prescription drugs for mental health issues before, and I didn't want to start. However after the 4 planes crashed and the buildings collapsed, I decided I was certainly going to need drugs to get through what lay ahead for all of us. I've been on & off meds ever since. I made some good decisions, and some bad ones too. The evening of that day I decided i had to reach out to everyone I knew. I called family that I rarely talked to, former coworkers, far-away friends. I decided to stop putting energy into despising my friend's insensitive husband--his birthday is 9/11 and now there'll always be a pall over that day. Sketches I made from that time are of small, tidy, cozy, thick-walled round adobe dwellings in rural settings: Security and order. I drew a giant striding over poor desert people distributing fresh foods from a colossal cornucopia. I drew myself heroically holding up one of the towers while people escaped. Somehow these irrational images helped me, because of what happened seemed so monumentally irrational. I tried to re-examine my life, and changed some habits. I figured if there were tens of thousands trying to heal from losing a loved one in this madness I certainly can be truer to myself and stop living from my suddenly insignificant petty fears. I realize only now how many feelings i have about this are disguised as anger, hate and cynicism. I must rededicate myself to the earliest of impulses; to reach out over barriers and affirm relationships. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I'm in a federal program who's primary mission is to fight poverty in America. One of the strongest ways to do that is by building up local communities who will then help themselves. We're creating several tribute projects in our city, all have elements of community building: Writing letters to servicemen & -women who don't usually get any mail, goodie packages, social events for military families, safety workshops, playground rehab, helping disabled veterans... Today I played BINGO with residents of a VA medical facility. I enjoyed it and they were very appreciative. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? News media https://www.911digitalarchive.org/files/original/2abc0c7c1fe46f89d9908c08619a0cfa.jpg 94cf2529e9a3ddb76a10a62351938b60 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 453 Width 604 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 I was beginning my freshmen year of high school when 9/11 occurred and I remember sitting in a classroom at school consoling a friend who had a relative inside one of the towers. That was not the job of a 14 year old on 9/10... I view life differently, value it more and realize the power of empathy. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question On 9/11/2002, my high school had a memorial for the victims of the attacks and I chose to honor a man named Edgar Emery. On each anniversary I wake up early, listen for his name to be read off during the ceremony and say a prayer. I will be continuing with my tradition this year. 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 In July of 2009 I visited relatives in Shanksville, PA and found myself driving by the crash site of UA Flight 93 every day of my visit. With each passing, I grew more and more grateful for the heroes who were onboard the flight. This photo was taken facing the field, an American flag marking the area of impact. Looking back at my camera are freedom angels, each representing a hero from the flight. 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 9/11, I left the financial services industry and returned to my first love, teaching. Since then, I've worked as an educator and instructional technology specialist in the New York City Dept of Education. I think it's important that we give back to our community and relish every day. I am much more focused on experiencing life on a daily basis, treasuring the time with my children and family, developing special moments with my friends and living in the moment. We never know how long our lives will be. Cease the day! FNL How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I was at home on 9/11, doing laundry. My kids were at school and it was the start of an ordinary, normal day. Suddenly, my mother appeared at the laundry room, out of breath. “A plane has hit the World Trade Center!”, she said. We raced back upstairs to the 15th floor and stared in disbelief at the images on television. Looking out my bedroom window, we saw the twin towers in the distance burning like smoke stacks! That’s when the tv images became real for us. Panic set in. My kids were both in Manhattan! I will never forget the power of that urge to get to my kids. It was visceral. The only other time I’d felt something remotely similar was when I gave birth to my daughter, and demanded to see her so I could count her fingers and toes. At that moment, I needed to touch my children to make sure they were alright. I called a dear friend, also a mother with two kids in Manhattan, and we set out to get them. We drove from Riverdale to the Broadway Bridge, and had to abandon the car when we learned that all bridges had been closed. We walked over the Broadway Bridge and found one of the last running subways that took us closer to the kids’ schools. At Central Park West, we walked to three schools – two on the west-side and one on the east to collect our kids. I found both of mine, safely huddled with their wonderful teachers in the school’s church. I counted their fingers and toes when I saw them. I swear I must have touched them everywhere. I needed to make sure they were alright. The relief in their eyes at seeing their mom was probably the most wonderful feeling I’ve ever had. Their mom was there and everything was going to be okay. The six of us then took the subway back north, walked over the Broadway Bridge and finally got home about five hours later. I remember seeing a Stealth bomber flying over Central Park when we walked through it. The sky was empty, but the bomber flew. Cut off from the media for so long, we had no idea of the scope of what had happened. Seeing the bomber told us that this event was monumental. Safe at home with my kids in tow, I sat at my window watching the World Trade Center in the distance. I saw the smoke billowing over Brooklyn, watched every broadcast, answered emails from European friends, and eventually shut down. It was too overwhelming to process. I don’t remember if I ever collected that laundry. It all had started out as a normal, beautiful fall day. Frances Newsom-Lang 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 The Iraq War and invasion of Afghanistan caused a big influx of money to "terminate" terrorists, and destroyed our economy and our debt caused the indirect effects of the paycuts/freezes for my family. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question Hope that nothing bad will happen! 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 To my Children, On Spet. 11th, at 7:30 A.M. I brought Dalton who had just turned one on the 6th downstairs. We had a morning routine. I changed his diaper, and set him up into his highchair for breakfast. I remember it being beautifully sunny that day. As I cut up bananas and got him some Cheerios, and a glass of milk, I turned on the TV to the Good Morning America show. I sat down to watch when, all of the sudden they were showing footage of an explosion LIVE on the world trade center. As they and I were trying to make sense of what was going on, I watched in absoulte terror and horror as the second plane hit the other tower. I sat in disbelief, and immediately called your grandma ( my mom) who lived about an 1/8 of a mile to our north. We were in the middle of Nebraska, but only 80 miles from Omaha, which houses Offut Military Base. I began to panic as I thought what a huge target this could be. When I called your grandma, I told her to turn on the TV, she asked, " Why?" I told her, " They're bombing us!" She asked, " who?", I finally screamed at her to, " Turn on the Da*& TV." We sat in silence on the phone wondering what would happen..Your Uncle Matt had returned from military training not more than a couple months if I remember correctly..it may have been weeks. I sat in stunned silence as I watched the whole thing unfold through out the day. Dalton its the one day I can say I held you all day and cried..I cried because the great world into which you were born, was destroyed. I cried because of I knew how many childrens lives had just been shattered as they lost loved ones. I cried not knowing if Uncle Matt would have to go to a war I was sure was coming. As the later part of the day approached, I heard a VERY LOUD roar...my first thought was OMG, they're going after Offut! I scooped you up and ran outside looked up to the sky to see a huge jet liner flying low enough I could make out the words on the side it said AIR FORCE ONE. It was the president on his way to Omaha to Offut. At that moment, I knew we were Ok. They wouldn't take the president to Offut if they thought it was going to be a target. As I sat down on our front steps with you in my arms..I started crying all over again for the umteenth time. I was never more proud to be in America, I was never so scared to be in America. Theres something you have to understand.....September 11th, forged our world into the one you are now accustomed too. It did NOT exsist the day before....before Sept. 11 you didn't have terror alerts, our military wasn't at war, Terrorists were something that happened in other countries. Its very surreal to think about it. Dalton, Cody, Allie, the world I wanted to bring you into died that day. We now have worries that didn't exsist before that day. It is a day the world literally changed. I will tell I have NEVER been so proud as I was the weeks after of being American. In a very twisted way, the attacks made us all realize that it wasn't anout me me me or this group and that group..It was about US as a country! How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question Every year on Sept. 11 I think about the day it happened and how uncanny it was that it was so sunny and warm...almost too perfect of a day. This year I plan to have a moment of silence to remember the victims, their families and millions of others who were affected.... 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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! 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. These elements are common to all image files. Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Height 2464 Width 1648 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. 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 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 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.