Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: to the people i knew and worked with in the world trade ,ill never forget you. .it all started in 1997 when i got this job working for mcs business solutions fixing canon copiers.i had just finished a course for electronics at rets institute.this is what i wanted to do after serving in the us army from aug 1990 until jan 1993.as i flew back to nj from my duty station.the plane flew by the world trade on its way to newark airport.i looked at them like i always did when i was growing up from my bedroom window.what marvel!i finished the school,and took the test to see if i even qualified to take the job.i passed.then they asked us where did we want to work "we have different locations".i thought to myself wow i could work in ny,and not just anywhere,downtown.so i had an interview,and i got the job,working in the financial powerhouse that it is on may 12 1997. right after i took the job i had a baby girl born may 19th 1997,7 days after i took the job.my company gave me 3 days off,thank you .so after that i focused on training and becoming what i was,a professional copier technician.well now the years started to pass,its now 1999 and im a great technician,fixing copiers for companies in downtown manhattan.im working on an exclusive account,lehman brothers at 3 world finacial building.it was great.i got to be in there all day.they had a lot of copiers.it was known as an in-house account.a lot of floors,people and copiers.i worked there for about a year,then sometime in late 1999 me and another technician switched places his name was zack levy,he worked in the world trade account servicing our canon copiers.now i was the one working in the world trade with another technician,his name is derek morgan.i live in jersey and now my travel is better,i take the path in newark and get off in the world trade,the gave me an id card,and now i get off the and go right upstairs.thats when i begin to work with people and know the places and floors and whos machine is who's.we had two desks and two closets for copier parts on the 82nd floor of tower one,facing north.derek was there before 830 ready for his morning muffin.id go the 43rd floor and get breakfast and eat it while looking at the statue of liberty and the river,man that was a great view.what could be better than working in the tallest buildings in manhattan. ill always remember the time i met cory miller,who worked on the 101st floor for cantor fitzgerald.he was the one who called for service for the copiers up there,and also ran the stockroom from what i saw,also there was a girl named karen montague,she also worked on 101st floor.i see her on the way to see cory.that day i met him he was a little hesitant to let me touch his machines,but after seeing my work,he liked me a whole lot.then there were his pals that worked across from him,they were cool too.i dont know their names. then there was the lady from the 82nd floor her name is nancy nunez i fixed her copier lots of times. i mention them because i saw them alot,but i also saw many people and fixed many machines in world trade centers 1 through 7.chances are if you worked in those building i probably fixed your canon copier. so many days and hours spent in those buildings and not one day did i think of them being destroyed,until the day i went down to sublevel. i was walking to fix a copier there when i say the memorial that was built for the 1993 bombing victims.i stared at it,then i stared at it some more.i then said a prayer to god. i said "god please dont let this happen to me". fast forward to 2001.after working with people in those buildings for about 2 years i feel like were friends,productive friends.friends that laughed with me,got mad at me when the copier didnt work and id fix it and they'd be happy and thank me,and id thank them back.friends that chatted with me,i remeber talking to cory miller about some new speakers he bought from J&R in lower manhattan sometime in spring 2001 or so,he kept playing a song from silent bob strikes back and were listening and were talking about how the speakers were great,and i talked about how i took the family to dorney park,and he told me about a place in long island thats a waterpark and we even looked it up online.everytime id go to cantor fitzgerald me and cory would talk up a storm.we were cool,we exchanged aim screen names,his was jedinyte44,mine was livetildoa,and we would chat sometimes after work. now its the week before sept 11th i had went to fix some copiers for cory 2 times that week,and 1 of them was in the 105th floor. as i was leaving and seeing them for the last time,karen montague asked me to donate for diabetes foundation,i said ok and paid 2 bucks for 2 paper boots and i put my name in one and taped it to the wall,and she taped the other to the wall and she forgot to write my name in.so she looked and then she realized it and wrote it in.then i went into the elevator never to see them again.its friday sept 7th 2001,there werent any machines called in so my manager decided i could help out in the field.i didnt like that at all.id rather be in "the trade".so i went in the field and did my job.friday morning same thing.monday morning same thing.monday afternoon i get a call to fix a machine at the federal couthouse at 500 pearl st ,its 430 and i said to myself ill go in the morning,the call specifies that i need to bring a part with me to the call,so i go home. tuesday morning sept 11th.as i leave my house my and my fiance which i pregnant are having an argument about being late to work,and when i get to penn station,i leave her in the car without a goodbye or a kiss or a hug.and i hurry to catch my train thinking im going to be late,its about 755am.i get off on the platform in the world trade and i look at the clock and it says 825 am,so i hurry up and go up the escalators and through the mall,and just past victoria secret theres an escalator .that was my usual way to go to our office at 90 william st.i get there and theres a clock and it says 835am i think to myself "great im late".i take my elevator the the 11th floor and i walk to the parts room.i pick up the part for the call at 500 pearl st.,then i go to see my manager .he looks in out system and sees theres no call in the world trade.its 843 or so,he says go in the field if anything comes in ,youll go back to "the trade",i looked at him not liking the news but i dont argue.i say to myself "its ok a machine is gonna break down any day now,and ill be back in "the trade".just then my coworker calls me on the jobs nextel and says"the world trade is on fire".i said "what?"stop playing man.and he says " for real the world trade is on fire".so i walk towards the front of our office.thers a conference room we use with big windows,and when i look through them .they face the world trade and i could see both of them.and i could see a really big hole.i could see through the hole to the other side.i dont know what to think.all i know theres people on the top floors and theyre waving stuff and theres papers flying everywhere.then the people start jumping out.so i go to the back and make a call to let my pregnant fiancee know that i was ok.i went back to the windows.then all of a sudden a big explosion flew out of two wtc.i looked like someone set off a big bomb because all i saw was yellow water like orange fluid coming out of the building.i didnt know it was a plane.1 liberty plaza building was blocking the other side where the plane came in.so i thought it was a bomb.at this time i dont know what to do.i must have been in shock because i just stayed in the office for a good while.next thing i know i feel our building swaying.so we all try to run down the stairs ,11 flights,,by the time we got down there was smoke and white stuff coming into our building.we had to go back up,but the floors where locked so we couldnt get back in.we found exit on 3rd floor and we kicked the door in of some office and closed it behind us not knowing what just happened.we saw nuthing but black and white dust when we looked at the windows.we thought about what was gonna happenn to us.i thought about my daughter, my fiancee,and my unborn child.then the smoke started to clear and get lighter.so we ran outside and walked uptown.im looking back where the towers were,and i didnt see them there anymore.and i thought about my coworker derek who was there on the 82nd floor.and the people i knew there.thinking about what happened to them.i walk uptown for a while.alot of people on the street.trains didnt run.i waited a while,i called my fiancee at home after she got off work and told her im fine.that i missed her.i finally got home around 830-9 pm.clothes and shoes were dusty.i didnt know who lived or who died.my manager called me and said take the next day off.so on thursday he said come to work in lyndhurst,our refurbishing and training facility.we got some donated copiers and we fixed them for the port authority,they had lost all the machines in the world trade and they had setup a command post and they needed some copiers to do their stuff.monday sept 17th were back in downtown ny,backin the place i worked in and loved and had known so many people in such a short time.and god let me know he heard my prayer.he let me live .then my son was born 11-09-01. 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 story1072.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-08-19 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 68.36.222.209 Annotation Annotations to this item. Economic effects Personal connection to someone at sit Victims WTC, attack WTC, pre-911 WTC, worked in (ever) NY:2