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. Had to run to the men's room and make some little Osamas... So where we at... ah, yeah, ok... I keep hearing about a "return to normal", and getting back to or "seeking normalcy". Well, I don't know about that. It's like Yogi might say "There ain't no normal cause this is normal". Way I figure it is this the way it is and the way it's gonna be from now on, might as well get used to it. One of the things that I told my kids was that the attack on the WTC happened around 8:48AM and that I wouldn't have been in the building at that time anyway. I explained to em my - not one minute more than necessary - philosophy, that if I had been there I would've been standing outside having a cup-a-joe and waiting til 9 before going up to work. That seemed to make em feel better and now we have a deal - if I get to work early I grab a paper and a coffee and chill til 9. It's now part of my new routine. (Not that it would mean any less danger, just look at that poor woman who just died after sufferring for 41 days with 90% burns. She was just on the street waiting for a bus when the plane hit and drenched her with burning jet fuel). But if it gives em some piece of mind then wtf. Hey, did you catch my homey tellin Osama to "kiss his royal Irish ass"? Man I was diggin that. I graduated from H.S. with his brother John, the chief that was killed in the attack. Always knew us Irish guys from Rockaway had a way with the words. The attack hit pretty hard back in the old neighborhood. I hear you can't go a block without having at least one house missing someone. I have the odd circumstance of having grown up in the poor Irish neighborhood, yet in school I was in the advanced classes with most of the kids from the next door wealthy Jewish neighborhood. The Irish kids tend to grow into firemen or cops (or both, switching between the two is fairly common) the Jewish kids tending to head into the banking and investment world (the Cantor- Fitzgerald bond firm in particular). So it was a double edged sword that hit Rockaway and it seems I had one foot in each camp. I also dug when they booed ol' Billary. Yeah buddy, go home you carpet-baggin bee-otch. And speaking of royal asses... didya catch when Rudy told that little cock worm Saudi dickhead to take his 10 million and stuff it up his culo? Heh, Roo-dee Roo-dee! In hindsight though I figure he couldv'e taken the money and done something good and offensive with it. Some suggest donating it to the Israeli Defense fund but I had a better idea - blow the whole 10 mil on booze and broads. Yup that's right, truck in a few hundred kegs, hire a bunch of ho's and have a suck-my-militant-dick- you-inbred-piece-of-shit party. Nothing shows appreciation for a job well done better than buying a guy a blow-job, dontcha think? Some days are better than others, some days downright suck. My brother's wife lost her aunt (a grandma with one daughter and one granddaughter), my brother-in-law lost one of his close friends (a 34 yr old fireman with a wife and four daughters). Funerals, memorial services, bagpipes, flags, moments of silence... day after day after day. Mondays used to be the worst day of the week, now it still sucks but the rest of the week seems to get progressively suckier. I get some peace on the weekends and actually like the idea of having recently moved some 60-odd miles out onto L.I., but here at work, smack in the middle of the shit, the "bad juice" seems to build until come Friday I've bout had it. In trying to explain the feeling I found it compares to the feeling you get in your stomach when you get arrested and they throw you into the cell and ker-CHUNK the door. It's the same hollow, pit of the stomach sinking, whirlpool, ah fuck, type feeling. Hell, there just ain't no gettin away from it, the news, the newspapers, the news tickers, people talking... even the ID card that I wear around my neck has 36 (yes, I counted em) little pictures of the WTC in the background logo. Man if I could get away to an island for a few weeks with no news it would be sweet. Just lay around and puff up some fatty boom batty chronic blunts and wash em down with some exotic little paper umbrella sporting elixer... yeah that'd do it. In the meantime, all I want to hear about now is body counts. How many of those lice infested fuckers did we send to hell today? That's all I wanna know. Fuck coalitions, fuck the Pakis, fuck Saudi, fuck world opinion, fuck the Northern Alliance, fuck the peace-niks and fuck Richard Gere their gerbil lovin spokesperson. And the press, a big hearty fuck you to the media. I swear, if I see one more little robo-raghead chanting about his ahkbar and burning flags I'm gonna take note of the network showing it and head over there and take a hot steamy crap right smack in the middle of their elevator. Ho September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Wed Oct 24, 2001 12:52 pm 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. 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. Pucker Up Osama 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 email362.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. unknown 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. 63.150.48.3