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. Hi Rachel, Wow, I'm so glad that you're OK! I never realized how close you were living to the Pentagon - I'm not familiar with that area and DC anyway. But I'm glad your father came to pick you up because it must have been pretty harrowing for you since you live so close to the area. It's a good idea to get out of there for awhile due to traffic, etc. I was in Baltimore yesterday morning when I first found out about all of the tragedies. Yesterday morning was very strange because I started my first class at 8:30 a.m. but exactly at 9 a.m., there was a fire alarm at Johns Hopkins in my building so we all evacuated of course and fire trucks came to the campus to look for fire, but they didn't see anything so we all went back inside to resume class. Then after my class let out at 10:15 a.m., my interpreter, Holly and I got out of the classroom which was situated across the hallway from the student lobby where they always have a TV there. There was a huge crowd of about 100 students/faculty watching the TV and Holly and I were on the outskirts of the crowd and Holly was trying to hear the TV so she could tell me what was going on. Finally, she told me that the World Trade Centers were bombed (that's what she heard from the students, not the TV) so we were shocked but I had another class at 10:30 a.m. So we went to my next class at 10:30 and the other students in my classroom really didn't have a good idea of what was going on but then the professor came in and led all of us in an impromptu prayer and he basically apologized for the world we live in and cancelled class and put the news on the huge auditorium screen (it's like a theater screen) and Holly and I stayed for about 30 minutes to watch the news - she interpreted for me. We were both just shocked because they showed the footage of the plane actually going into the second tower and the reaction of the other students was really bad. One girl just started crying because she had family & friends who worked there and she was just distraught. After about 30 mins, Holly and I left and there was another lady who just collapsed in the hallway because again, she had loved ones there. Holly tried calling Josh for me on the pay phone but I didn't have enough money for the long-distance call (I don't have a calling card) so I left to go back outside and go to my car. I got about 10 pages from Josh on my Wyndtell telling me to come home and not go to work at WRAIR (Walter Reed Army Inst. of Research). So I went home and it took me 2 hours to get home because everyone was trying to get out of the city of Baltimore.. it was just sheer panic and the drivers were CRAZY! My parents also emailed me to my Wyndtell so I paged them back to tell them I was OK and to let them know where I was, etc. Rachel, having the Wyndtell was the best thing that happened to me yesterday because I could get in touch with EVERYONE - my parents, my husband and my boss because Josh has another Wyndtell but my parents and boss don't so I can email them instead also through the Wyndtell. It works like a charm and it really is important for emergencies like yesterday. I didn't go to work today because all Federal offices were open, but with a liberal leave policy which means we don't have to go in if we don't want to. Ha. But anyway, yesterday, Josh and Jonathan (Pollack) got out early from work and Susan's office closed because she works at the U. of Maryland so the 4 of us got together and we spent the rest of the day (and night) together at their house...we really needed to be with other people because the entire day was so surreal. Oh, well. Take care and let me know when you're going back to DC? What about your classes? I don't have classes at Hopkins in Baltimore on Wednesdays, so that was lucky on my part. I have a normal day tomorrow and will go to Balt. for classes and then go to work in Silver Spring, MD. Talk to you soon, Erica September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. received 9/12/01 7:43 pm September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients Rachel Dubin September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. Erica Penn 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: I'm OK 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 email426.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. 2002-08-19 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 172.143.1.76