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 all...I thought I would quickly touch base from down here near "Ground Zero". The horror and profound collective sadness is unrelenting. James and I left town for Wellfleet last Thursday amidst the acrid, unbreathable air, wearing face masks, showing ID's, and wheeling our luggage uptown where he had to park our car the night before. It took us almost three hours to get out of Manhattan. It all seems so insignificant in light of the horrible horrible reality so many others are facing. We came back Sunday night and now spend many many hours sharing first-hand stories with friends and colleagues. It is overwhelming. The Cooper students are back now. It is very hard to see this through the eyes of an 18 year old frightened of war, the draft and Bush. We are encouraging reflection and doing good work as much as possible...but there is little smiling and we observe a truly shocked community bonded in terror. The most heart wrenching aspect is that lower Manhattan is literally plastered with thousands and thousands of xeroxes of photos and "have you seen my Daddy" messages. There are little memorials everywhere with burning candles and flowers and people crying and hugging. We are doing a fair share of this too. The stories of friends of friends go on and on with each new tale more terrible than the last. Many are inconsolable. And remember...we are just neighborhood observers...thank God we did not lose a loved one. I can't even imagine what that would have been like...and is like... for the hundreds of thousands who have. Godspeed to us all. Again...forgive us for not having time to respond to your beautiful messages individually...that will come...we promise. It is so important to know that so many of us care about each other. It is almost the only thing left to count on now. I have attached two photographs taken by a dear friend who teaches photography here. He was standing next to me with a wide angle lens on the roof of Cooper when this all happened. I hope that you can open them. If you look near the left half of the photo you can see a building with a bill board of the Evian girl pouring water down on the world from the clouds. James and my loft is the fourth floor of that building and you can see our windows in the photo...amazing. As children of the sixties, James and I have re-adopted our signature greeting from another time that seems ever more appropriate now. With two fingers in a V we say PEACE to us all. X J and B September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. September 19, 2001 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. Robert Rindler 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. Peace above all else! 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 email174.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. 2002-05-08 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 165.247.37.168