September 11 Digital Archive Stories

This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the experiences of thousands of individuals. The immense collection of stories (as of writing there are over 12,500 entries) were submitted directly to the September 11 Digital Archive by users of the site. The recollections cover a variety of topics too great to assess, and present an excellent resource for future cultural studies of the reaction to the September 11 attacks.

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"Thow Shall Not Kill" are words from the Bible that should be obayed by everyone, but unfortunatly they are not. On September eleventh of two thausand and one, the two World Trade Centers in New...

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I witnessed the Flight Attendant hurriedly moving back to meet another at the drink cart. "I need to speak with you in the back, now!", she stated. I assumed that there was a cranky passenger in Fir...

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hello everyone, my name is donnie holmes. i am a arff firefighter in birmingham alabama with a government contracted company located at the the birmingham international airport. on september 11th 2001...

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On the morning of Sept. 11, the sun came streaming through the window of my Battery Park City apartment. I awakened to a beautiful morning in lower Manhattan. I could see all the commuters enjoying...

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I can remember my Grandparent's telling my sister and I the story of Pearl Harbor over, and over again. Now, I have an 'attack' story to pass onto my children and onto their children. I was a...

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I was in class about the time. We heard the tv and President Bush came onto television and said two airplanes crashed into the WTC. At first, I couldn't believe it. These scumbags attacked our coun...

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The morning of 9-11 seemed to be just like any other morning. I was two days back from Arizona, tired and jet lagged. I woke up just in time to stumble in front of the TV set and see the replay of...

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I will always think about school buses when I remember 9/11/01: big, yellow school buses, and happy, oblivious children. It was a beautiful Boulder, Colorado morning and I was up at seven, getting my...

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I was sleeping the night away, when I had to get up for work and I checked my phone to see if I had received any messages. I was surprised to have received six messages, which was a "shock" because I...

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