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. To recap... Back in the '93 or so I was heading out the door with a co-worker, on my way down to 92nd floor of 2 WTC when the phone rang. I still remember standing in the doorway, one foot out, and then stepping back in to take the call. I was needed elsewhere and the other guy continued down to the Trade Center alone. He was there when they bombed the basement parking garage and wound up walking a smoke filled stairwell from 92 down to 78 back up to 92 and then down again to the street. On the 9/11 attack I was up here in midtown, just a few days away from moving full time into the 50th floor of 1 WTC. Working for IBJ on the merger of IBJ, DKB, and FBK into Mizuho Bank, most of my job involved getting people from IBJ into the offices of DKB on floors 48 ~ 50 in 1WTC. The third bank, FBK, had their offices up in 2 WTC (this was where my co-worker was during the first bombing). The first plane hit above our folks in 1 WTC. Everybody got out. The one loss for IBJ was my buddy Jack. He happened to have a meeting that day at the FBK offices in 2 WTC. From what I've heard he headed out of the building when the first tower was burning but, like many others, heeded the announcement that the fire was contained to 1 WTC and that everybody should return to their offices. A few minutes later the second plane hit tower 2. (You know that Homey don't play that, no way sucker, if I'm in tower two and tower one is burning you best believe I'm halfway home before they even think about telling me all clear). FBK lost around 19 folks, most were senior Japanese management, including the president of the bank, at their desks early and reluctant to leave. (Homey ain't playin that neither). So on the 12th I head to work, get to my office and find that we're closed for the day. Nice of em to wait until after I make the absurdly delayed and jumbled 2 hour commute to tell me about it, but wtf, a day off is a day off so I head back home. Next paycheck arrives and I'm a little light in the wallet, 7 hours worth. I call the numbskulls out in Brisbane and they tell me it's because I didn't work on the 12th. I politely remind them that the office was closed and isn't it a little bit of a bad time to be fucking with people about their hours. They tell me they'll "check into it" and get back to me, I tell them I'll gladly hop on a plane out there to "KICK- THEM-IN-THEIR-FUCKING-ASSES into it" if it will help. My missing pay showed up in the next check. In another stellar employee-employer relations example, the airports open again and they stick me on a flight to Chicago. I make two trips in one week, the job - unscrew a cable and hand it to some dude, hang out and standby for about 8 hours til about 1 AM. I'm not too keen on the flying part, nor having to work in the shadow of the Sears Tower, especially not for some useless bullshit work, but I do what I gotta do, yuh-know, and take consolation in the fact that I'm sticking 41 hours of overtime up their flat asses. I land at LaGuardia to the news that some looney tried to force his way into the cockpit of a CHI bound jet, screaming something about smashing into the Sears Tower. Isn't that special? With my desk/office/workplace at the WTC destroyed I wonder where they'll have me work. Midtown is best for me, my LIRR train comes and goes into Penn Station. Staten Island or Jersey City (two possible sites) are really bad commute-wise. I don't even want to think about trying to do it, I figure that if I'm asked to work from either of those locations I'd best just get a new job. Luckily they decide to keep me in midtown and work from Rockafeller Center. So of course I'm heading into the building when I notice a crowd gathering, looks like a press conference. I'm not too keen on the idea of gathering in a crowd, near some VIP's, in front of a landmark building (just paint a target on yer friggin head ferchrissakes) so I ease away and ask some foreign looking teevee guy whazzup. He tells me there's anthrax here, I say, ah great, let's all crowd up and get closer. Turns out some of ol' Tom Brokenjaw's peeps got the shit... right over there in fact [pointing]. Naturally it would happen when I'm a week into a nasty chest cold and busy hacking up chunks of lung. Anthrax, schmanthrax, just like a bad case of the clap... not any worse than the aftereffects of a night with the working "ladies" round the docks in Naples, Italy... or so I hear. Since then several media outlets have been thrax'd, over there, there, there, and there [pointing out the window to various sites]. It's like the mortar shells are dropping all around but they haven't got the exact range yet. Let's see, that's about the bones of it. Brb with some flesh. Ho September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Wed Oct 24, 2001 11:15 am 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. Greetings From Anthrax Alley 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 email358.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