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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Thanks for the check in. I was thinking of you a few weeks ago when I visited Florida for the first time since I left in 1995. Only caight the Fox newscast, didn't recognize anybody. Clematis St has tripled its size and there's this outragouges shopping plaza where there used to be shacks. Always been curious to your whereabouts and if the dot com collpase hasn't hit you too hard. Anyway... It was fucking unbelievable. As I got up in the morning all I heard was sirens-I live in Gramercy Park which is like 50 blocks from the WTC. That I'm used to because I live across from a Police Station. I turned on the TV just when the second plane hit. I was stunned. I didn't know what to do so I walked uptown to go to work. Yes, it was horrible, but after the bombing of the Trade Center in '93 I assumed that nothing to could destroy them. My path led me to a spectacular view of the wreckage on 23rd and 5th. Both towers were up in smoke. A camera crew asked to bother my headsets which I forgot were on my head. They couldn't get the mike to work and they wanted to check audio. That was when the first one collapsed. People starting screaming. It was truly stunning because it didn't seem real. "You sure it fell?" It seemed to just vanish, as if it was standing then decided to take a seat. People were screaming, crying. Even though I saw it, the only way I knew it truly happened was that you could hear the radio reports from all the cars that stopped. It was truly a hopeless feeling. People were crying all around me. I took out a couple hundred dollars, got some people out of work-these are "industry" people-so they think there indestrutable. I told them I was heading back home and that Gramercy Park was a whole lot safer than Times Square(which is where I work lgging in tapes for a few cable networks-truly a sucky job). The long walk home with a few people that followed me was surreal. The scarriest thing was seeing this guy, totally covered in dust, just walking down the street like a zombie. Everyone was scarred. No one's phone was working. We kept hearing that there was more planes headed to New York. Everyone time you heard a plane you prayed for the best. Luckily they were always military jets. I fortunately know no one personally who's been affected and I hope you're in the same boat. We do have this couple staying with us now who lived down there, but they're okay, it's mainly that the city is shut down from below 14th street. Well, the look of New York City is forever changed. This is worse than Pearl Harbor-being that was a military installation and that there was an easily discernable enemy. What scares me most was those who were on those hijacked planes and what will stop it from happening again. It was hard sleeping. Everytime I woke up I would hear sirens. The emotion of it all hits me in waves. Now, I'm seeing if there's anywhere around I can donate blood but the problem is that they really don't need it. The injured have slow down to a trickle. The only thing that's next is to start counting the dead and hopefully the few remaining survivors. --- William Winter wrote: > Scott, > > Wondering if you are in NYC and okay. > Drop me a line or call if you still check this email > address. > > William > 650-xxx-xxxx September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Wednesday, September 12, 2001 3:48 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients William Winter September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. Scott Wyles September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Re: You okay? 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 email655.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. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. unknown Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. yes Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-05 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 129.174.27.149