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: September 11th has had a monumental impact on my life. Now Im going to give you my thoughts, September 11th 2001, a day which I will never forget. At the time I was attending St. Peters Boys high school on Staten Island. 1st period, Religion class, a few minutes into the class our principal came into our classroom and told us that a plane had hit the World Trade Center, the class started praying and I didnt, I was in total shock and didnt know what to do. Second period someone came into U.S. History and told us that the Pentagon had been hit, I then knew something was up. I was never told about the second plane . At lunch I went down to the bookroom to see Mrs. Allen and I asked her what was going on, she told me the two towers had fallen and that nothing was left.I didnt even believe her, I couldnt. My mother came later and picked me up, hysterical, she couldnt stop crying. My father is a Battalion Chief at Battalion 22 for the FDNY, my uncle Robert is stationed at a firehouse in Brooklyn, my other uncle is stationed at a firehouse in Brooklyn, and finally my uncle Dave who died on September 11th was stationed at Engine 226, Brooklyn. That day my mother and I went home and she said that my father was alright, she also said my other two uncles called and said they were alright. The only one who hadnt called was my uncle Dave. I sat there watching the planes hit the tower time and time and time again on the television. They just kept showing them being hit and then falling. My father wouldnt come home for three days, he came home covered in soot, or should I say, ashes of the victims. Days went on, my uncle was still missing, we all had bursts of hope that he would survive, we would hear stories of small voids that people could have survived in. Days turned into weeks and we soon came to realize that my uncle wasnt coming home. My father was right there the day of September 11th, right across he street, he set up a command post, the first tower fell and he ran into an underground parking garage with other emergency rescue men, he later got out with some other firefighters and ran behind the glass building next to the World Financial Center, thank God he is still alive. He lost countless friends and his own brother. Things will never be the same for my family and I. Months later we had a memorial for my uncle, a mass. We went in limos and firefighters lined the strees, bagpipes played and people like you wouldnt believe were there, it was a lot to deal with. A year later September 11th 2002 I would get up and run throughout the streets with an American Flag, people loved it and went nuts. That day was also a day which killed me, our family decided to bury a casket, an empty one, you know that really kills me deep down inside that not only did they take my uncles life but that these lowlifes left nothing, empty..... The New York City Fire Department has played a major impact on my life, I would ride with my father when was younger and once we actually responded to the World Trade Center, its just strange to think that I was once there. But one thing is sure, I will never ever forget September 11th for the rest of my life and every Firefighter and Police Office that ran into those buildings that day are true HEROES!!!! God Bless the victims of those attacks and God Bless the true heroes who brought down that plane in Pennsylvannia and stopped it from hitting another building and taking more innocent lives. Dont ever tell me to forget September 11th!!!!!! I have started a patch collection in memoriam for the heroes of September 11th, right now I have close to 300 fire department patches from all over the world in my room. F.F. David P. DeRubbio F.F. Faustino Apostol Jose Angel Martinez Brigette Ann Esposito Forever in our hearts!!!! RIP 9/11/01!!!! Tunnel to Towers 04' Be there!! 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 story10762.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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