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. I still can't even begin to fathom yesterday.... As some of you know, I live practically within spitting distance of the Pentagon. I had a late start to my day Tuesday morning and was just getting out of bed when I turned on the news and saw the 2nd plane hit the WTC as it was happening. Since then I've been in some sort of parallel plane of reality. Doesn't seem real... Anyway as I was about to head out the door to work, my entire apartment shook and I heard a thundering boom outside. I quickly flipped the T.V. on to find that the Pentagon was struck. Phones went down and I panicked. Thick clouds of smoke began to creep into the air outside. I figured my office was a safer place to be than my apartment since it's a bit farther away from D.C. and the Pentagon so I quickly jumped in the car and made my way to work. I walked into an office full of eyes glued to our T.V. As we sat there hearing our boss tell us to go home or wherever we deem a safe place, we saw tower #2 of the WTC crumble as it happened. Then the phones came back on and I received about a billion phone calls asking if I was ok. As I spoke to my mother I learned that my step cousin was in the Pentagon at the time of the crash, but luckily he was on the other side of the building and is fine....albeit a tad shaken. A friend of mine has (had) a brother on the plane that was taken over by terrorists and crashed in Pennsylvania. He's been reduced to a sobbing pile of tears and flesh.... It's been a terrifying 24+ hours. It still doesn't seem real. I don't know why everyone is at work today. Nobody can think straight or concentrate for more than 5 seconds. I think the only thing that scares me more than what happened yesterday is what the U.S. is going to do in retaliation. -Ben Corrine Russell <corruss@hotmail.com> wrote: So, how are things holding up in your neck of the woods? I think that I just need to write this out and send it into cyberspace, so please bear with me. Things are crazy here at JMU. Most classes were cancelled yesterday, and all of them today (well, the one I've been to) are hour-long sessions on the current "situation". So many people seem to refuse to call it what it was - an Attack. But anyway, I didn't know about it until about 10:05 yesterday. I went to eat breakfast at one of our cafeterias, and as I was disposing of my tray I saw about 10 people standing by the TV. I walked over in time to see that the 1st tower had fallen. CNN was on for a bit more, went to commercial, and then the 2nd tower fell. I sat there in our little cafeteria lounge for 2 and a half hours fearing that someone I knew and cared about would be in the next place hit. The crowd remained stable at about 25 people, reactions ranging from mute disbelief, to horror, to red-faced fist banging. I went back to my dorm and continued my TV vigil with five others. I didn't go to my "Peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa" lecture, but I was told that the professor came in crying, said that she didn't want to be there, and told everyone to disperse. We all ventured out for dinner at the same time, and the students all kind of walked around in a daze. Some would stop mid-stride and just look at the ground; some seemed to not want to acknowledge that anything had changed from the day before. Others talked of retribution. Most wished that the towers could reappear and the Pentagon become whole by the time we woke up the next morning. Random people have asked me where I'm from. The pastry bar lady at breakfast today did, and I told her Northern VA. I told her how my uncle Randy had been doing construction around the Pentagon when the plane crashed, how my dad heard it coming in and felt our apartment building shake, and how my mom's family's company sent in cranes to help with the rescue effort. She said that it was such a shame - so many students here are from Northern VA, NY, or NJ. I said, "Yeah - and I know kids that lost multiple friends in the tower collapses. This one guy down the hall from me has an uncle that was in the 1st fire-fighting team to go into the towers. They were called back but didn't come back quickly enough, so another team was sent in to get them. The 1st team made it out before the collapse. The 2nd didn't." We had a candle-light vigil last night - about 2,500 people showed up. Students were invited to come up and speak, and I did. It was mostly about how we - my generation - must bear the brunt of whatever is to come. How we, and our peers, will be the ones fighting and dying in the most amorphous, ambiguous, ugly war in at least modern history if it comes to that, and how we must be the ones screaming for peace if there is to be any. I said that the youth of America will be forced to grow-up quickly if this escalates, and I hoped that in securing our freedom we don't lose our country's soul. Today people that I don't know have come up to me and told me what a great speech it was. I told them that I wish that I hadn't had to make it. Corri ------------------- The more we learn, the more we are, or ought to be, dumbfounded. -Lewis Thomas September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Wed, 12 Sep 2001 07:40:27 -0700 (PDT) September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients Corrine Russell <corruss@hotmail.com>, brussell328@yahoo.com, EmpressAdia@aol.com, smylx3@teleport.com, AutmnSnst@aol.com, FaeriesVA@aol.com, davewelch21@hotmail.com, EZR113@aol.com, girlie091785@aol.com, GRuss90330@aol.com, gmahontas@msn.com, Mimi10 September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. brussell328@yahoo.com 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: Yesterday Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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