113 20 7169 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 Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: Wrinkles. On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was worried about wrinkles. I was late for class and my shirt needed ironing. I set up the ironing board in my living room and turnded on CNN, as I usually do. A plane had hit the World Trade Center. It was an accident. I put on my shirt, patted the dog on the head, and headed downtown for class. As I pulled out of my driveway an announcer on my radio cut in and said that a second Tower had been hit. Another wrinkle. And I thought like everyone else right then. They are doing this on purpose. Heading into downtown on the Shoreway, a lakeside highway in Cleveland, I saw a low plane approaching from the lake. It was headed towards downtown. And my fingers turned white on the steering wheel as I watched it speed towards me on the highway. Oh my God...Stay Up...Stay Up...Not here, not to me. Of course, it flew over downtown and became one of the many grounded planes to land at Cleveland Hopkins Airport that morning. When I got to class I told my class what had happened, in case they hadn't heard, and then turned to go back to my car to listen to the news. As I turned another student said, "The Trade Center just blew up." I said, "I know, a plane hit it." And she replied, "No. I mean, it's not there anymore. Their saying that it just collapsed." No words. After being evacuated from downtown, I spent the rest of the day like most Americans. With friends, with family, with fear, with anger, and with myself in a world I could no longer understand. Nine months later my son was born. Evan Michael Wheeler. Thank you God, for sparing beauty. 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 story9776.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was on a Hundertwasser bus-boat tour of the city when the first plane struck the World Trade Center. I will never forget it, as long as I live. I had just gotten off the bus and was told to be on the boat by 4PM. I checked my watch, and it was 3:45PM. That was 8:45AM in New York City, the moment the first plane struck the first tower. I felt my late Uncle Felix Taube's spirit, almost as if he was standing right before me, though he'd been long gone, by then. And he said that he knew how to make money, but he wasn't happy, and I'm smart to want to seek enlightenment. I had just gotten off retreat with the venerable Zen master, Thich Nhat Hanh, where I took the five mindfulness trainings, for the first time. They include a commitment not to kill, for one, which I believe is very pertinent. I have since been on retreat again with him, last summer at UCSD, and this year, I've done "trial residencies" no less than three times at two of his practice centers, Deer Park Monastery, in Escondido, and Plum Village, in France. I am planning, tentatively, to return to France for an extended stay, as before, my plans were thwarted by my mother, who just had breast cancer and did not want me to return there. But she and my father are getting used to the idea that I am seeking enlightenment and that this is the way to do it, for me, it seems. I have had other teachers, such as Amma, "the hugging saint of India," and Jennifer Berezan, from the California Institute of Integral Studies' women's spirituality degree programs, but I believe that the practice of mindfulness "speaks to my condition" best right now. By the way, though I was stuck abroad in Vienna, since my flights home via London on Virgin Atlantic and British Airways were canceled on the 14th that September, but I was never "recognized" as a survivor, since I suffered no injury or loss of loved one, and therefore, never compensated. The federal government as vast quantities of money for victims, but since I'm not seen as one, I get none of it, as do the thousands of others like me, no doubt. It is not fair. I feel betrayed by my government. 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/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: On the morning of September 11th, I was sleeping peacefully when my roommate at American University awakened me and told me that "we've been attacked." As the news set in, I began to think of my father and godfather, both of whom have government jobs in Washington. I was worried about their safety, and began making phone calls to try to find out where they were and if they were alright. It was hard to get in touch because cell phones weren't working and their buildings had been evacuated. It was a very scary situation. D.C. became a scary place to live. For example, three days later, American recieved a bomb threat and we had to evacuate the entire campus. After that happened, I was so freaked out that I went to visit my boyfriend in Blacksburg, VA for about five days until I was ready to come back. 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 story156.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I had seen the first plane hit before I went to school on that sad day. I thought that it was just an accident. I had no idea that our country was under attack. I was headed to school not knowing what was coming in the next few hours. I was sitting in Biology class when it was near ending. A parent of another student came in and said that they were picking up their child due to the troubled times that America was under. None of us had any idea that we were under attack. One of the schools here in Pueblo had gotten a bomb threat. As I returned back to my home school. I had no idea what was happening on the other side of our country. When I got home that day I found out what had happened. What I saw on the television was horrifying. I had no idea who had done any of this. I was scared. I had to go and get some dance shoes and while on the way home the Pentagon was hit. I had no idea that this would be the worst day of our lives as Amercains. What had happened shocked me to death. I had no idea then what had ahppened. Intil I started watching the news. I saw over and over agian the planes crashing into the building. I could see the people jumping and I began to cry. I thought about all the women that had lost their husbands, all the men who lost their eives, all the children who had lost a mom or dad or aunt or uncle or grandma or grandpa. I thought about all the people who had lost a loved one in the world trade center. thousands of peope died. I am thankful that i am alive today. Something like this really makes you thankful for all that you have. I remember getting gas put in all of our cars and truck because people thought that gas prices would go up. It was a really sad day and I will never forget where I was and What I was doing. My prayers are still with all those who lost their families and lives. I give my respect to those who helped on tht day. Those who gave their lives to try and save another's. I still get tery eyed when I think about it. But this is my story of where I was I just thought that I would share it with you. Me being a teenager in today's world not really understanding the polotics of the country really does open their eyes when something like this happens. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!!!! 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 story9014.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: Started off as any other day...woke up in the morning early, got ready for school and i was already sitting in my second period class. It was the beginning of the year so the classes weren't that hard yet and everyone was still in the process of getting to know each other. As we started off with class an announcement came over the PA system. The principal told everyone to stay where they were and that he would tell us what is happening shortly. So everyone was sitting there very confused for about 10 minutes trying to figure out what is happening. The principal comes back on...and announces tht an airplane has hit one of the twin towers and they are not sure what is happening. We were allowed to turn on the new and watch what was going on. At the time no one knew anything and everything was running through my head and i could not figure out what could possibly be happening. We were watching the news the whole day till we had to go home because we were told to stay in the classrooms until the buses arrived at the regular time. After the schoolday as i got home, mny parents were not there. My stepdad worker at American University at the time, which he had a hard time getting home. My mother worker at a elementary school in McLane which also took her awhile to get home. Once my parents were home i felt safe and happy that nothing has happened to them. But then i was thinking to myself...what are the terrorists going to do next...atomic bomb? fly more planes into buildings? suicide bombers? There were many questions left unanswered and until today people still wonder what we could have done to change things or what else may happen in the future...i guess we will have to wait and find out... 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 story11033.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: i was sitting in my chemestry class and ms. teachy was trying to go over the scientific method when Mr. Scott (head of security at our high school) came on the announcements and said "shurley you all know what going on by now just stay in your classes and stay clear of the windows,". We where all confused because we did not know what was going on so we had a student go to the clas next door and ask. she came back 30 seconds later saying someone had bombed the pentagon. Ms. teachey looked confused and ran over and turned on the tv. what i saw scared me. it was the 1st twin tower with smoke coming out of it and they were saying a plane had crashed into it. then about 2 mins after we turned the tv on the second plane came in. so at this point we all knew it was no accident and all of us were expecting more. then they said that a bomb had gone off in front of the executive building in front of the white house (that is where my mom works) i then fel;t horrified but soon comforted as i learded the roports were false. In another half hour we were dissmised and i went to lunch. i was talking to my friends and i was look ing at the people around me, some were confused others worried some were paranoid others did not show any type of emotion. as it turns out i only knew one person that was injured in the pentagon(our school is 15 mins away from the pentagon alot of the parents worked their) and i had not seen her in months. although i was relativley non affected i was shaked that night i prayed for the victims and thier families of the attacks and the country. i really did not know what else to do. the next dy i wanted to donate blood but found out you had to be 18(i was 15).i think that now one year later i am satisfied with what the government has done against osama and the talaban. I hope that from this the country will better learn to defend its self so nothing this horrible will ever happen again. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: 911 On September 11, 2001, the day New York City and Washington D.C. got attacked; I was in Earth Science talking to my friends Jennifer Upton and April Ames. My teacher turned on the television What I saw on television surprised me. I could not believe my eyes; the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were on fire. It was the most tragic thing I have ever seen. When the Twin Towers were on fire, I thought, "This cannot be happening!" Then two seconds later, I saw another plane crash into the other tower. Next thing I knew, they both collapsed on the ground. I felt sick to my stomach. I think this event will change our lives forever. First of all, the United States is never going to be the same again. The World Trade Center is gone and thousands of people loss their lives. Second, people will not feel safe in a tall building like that one. They will always wonder if there will be a plane waiting to crash into it. It was a really emotional time for people. It was an emotional time for all Americans. Is some place else going to be hit? Are we in a war? Who are we fighting? What about the security? Would we ever feel safe again? How could a person ever do this? When is this going to end? I feel nervous going to big cities. I don't know if I will ever be safe again. Or even ride in an airplane again. I feel really sad for those people who had to go through that torture from the terrorists. I also feel bad for the people who died trying to help the people who were stuck in the building. My heart goes out to all those who lost loved ones. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I remember that it seemed like any other morning. I was running a little late for work and my son was grumpy because he didn't want to go to school. I was singing along with a country station that I had tuned into my radio. All of a sudden there was a break in the broadcast. They started to say that one of the twin towers had just had a plane crash into it. I turned off my car after I had parked in the lot of my workplace, a daycare. I walked in to see shock on everyone's faces. Noone knew what was going on. Everyone had all of their radios in their rooms on and all of the t.v. sets tuned into the news. My assistant worker came in and said that another tower had been hit. I was in awe. Soon thereafter we heard of the planecrash in Philly. I remember walking trough a room that had a t.v.(mine didn't)and seeing the two burning towers and then moments later as they crushed into infamous rubble. Tears were sworming down my face like angry ants marching. I felt so saddened, all I could keep thinking about was the people and their families. Then my thoughts shifted to my husband, whom I had left in Germany, an American soldier. I had come home with the intent of divorce, but realized that I truly loved him when I felt he was at danger of being sent somewhere to fight with a risk of not comming home. The first thing that I did when I got home was e-mail him and tell him that I loved him. And that I just wanted him to know that. Now, one year later, I continuously feel the outrage toward the people that did this to my country, and am still pending divorce(apparantly he still doesn't feel the same way about me) and am searching for a feeling of safety and peace, which I have yet to find. 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 story5142.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I feel as if September 11th will always have its own special meaning to those of us who experienced watching everything as it happened in New York. The scenes that were repeatedly flashed across the television screen with every news broadcast will always be imprinted into my mind. The expressions of the pedestrians who had been there in New York City as an actual eye witness to the event, had multiple meanings behind them. There were some of confusion, shock, horror, tears, misunderstanding and failure. There were many women and men who were able to save themselves, while there were far more who lost their life in the struggle. I think the after stories are what affected me the most. I comprehended everything that had happened but when personal stories were being broadcasted across all the magazines and newspapers, they explained the details that hit home to my heart. There were stories about weddings that were never going to come true, single mothers and fathers who were now left alone to raise their children. It's sad to think of all the lives which were lost, yet it's even harder to accept the number of family members and friends that are affected by the lost of a loved one. Although I was not in New York City at the time of this event, I feel like I have seen enough from the television to remember that day for the rest of my life and pass my experience onto my children. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: Hello my name is Angela Rhodes, On the morning of Sept.11th which was my 20th Birthday I awoke and went up stairs were my mother in law sat watching the news. There are not words to express what i saw that day. There are not words to express the hurt and the pain for those who where so wrongly ripped away from their loved ones. There are not words to express the fear that i felt for my family and loved ones that something might happen to them. I was also 8 Months pregnant to think that children were amoung those who died was very hard to swallow. And to those who think that because not every one was affected by this because it didn't hit close to every one your wrong.The most painfull thing for me to see on the news is everybody running away when the wtc came tumbling down, for me when i saw that, thats when the reality of what was happening hit me.This may not affect every one the same, but those who are very passionate and caring can feel the hurt in the tears that we see you cry and it's only human to cry to when you think about what it would do to you for someone so close to suddenly be completely out of reach and not be able to do anything about it. I did not lose any loved ones in this horrible act of the terrorist but i do feel pain for all those who lost a loved one. There is one thing that i would like to say in addition to my story. We should not ask why god why he wasn't there ,We should ask ourselves why we pushed him away. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was at work in our offices in Washington, DC at 1100 New York Ave, on the 8th floor. I'm an attorney at a patent law firm and our offices are in a building that is a few blocks east of the White House. A co-worker said that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center. On my office computer, I went to www.cnn.com and there was a picture of the first tower with a lot of smoke coming out of it. Then we heard that the second WTC tower had been hit. Many of us went to watch the tv coverage in the multipurpose room. As I walked out of the room I mentioned that I could not believe that the towers were still standing and that the engineers should be really proud that the towers took a hit like that and were still standing. However, very shortly after that, they fell. Another lawyer said to me that he had been speaking with an examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Crystal City, VA, (just south of the Pentagon) and that examiner had said, "There's an awul lot of smoke coming out of the Pentagon." Another person came into my office and said that people were literally running out of the White House. People started to leave our office to try and make their way home. There really wasn't any panic. However, the roads and bridges into Virginia were mostly blocked with traffic and other routes were very slow. Many of the people in our office who lived in Virginia and drove just stayed put. One of the ladies in our docketing department had four daughters who worked at the Pentagon. She was naturally quite worried. One of her daughters then called to tell her that three of them were safe but that they had not yet heard from the fourth daughter. (It was later learned that the fourth daughter was safe too.) The traffic on the street outside our offices seemed to be at gridlock or at least very slow. We are very close to the Metro Center metro stop. That metro stop stayed open the entire day. However, the police had blocked off H Street and 11th Steet to the east of us and would not let any traffic on that part of H Street - no one could walk through that area to the Chinatown Metro Station; they had to go underground and take the train there. I take the metro subway train into work. I stayed in the office until about noon. I wanted to wait until the main rush out of the city was over and also I wanted to make sure that everyone who needed a ride had a way home. I closed the doors of those offices that were empty to help protect the hallways from flying glass in case there was an explosion outside. I remember being very surprised that the D.C. Metro subway trains kept running the entire morning. The train was not packed like I expected it to be; it looked like a normal day. Metro changed the train stops however, and did not stop at the Pentagon station or at Union Station (where the Amtrak trains connect). I take the Metro Red Line from Metro Center to Glenmont, Maryland, about 15 miles norht of D.C. The Metro train engineers who ran the trains underground that whole morning are some of the bravest people I know. I was very grateful when we came above ground safely. There was no panic or outward emotion in the train station or trains. People were very quiet. Driving home from the train station, I remember the news report on the car radio saying that the authorities could not account for four planes. As I drove home from the train station, I saw a "spotter" with binoculars on the Plaza del Mercado strip mall roof at the corner of Layhill and Bel Pre Road, about 15 miles north of D.C. He was looking up with his binoculars, scanning the skies to the north and west. I am an amateur radio operator and a volunteer for a group that Montgomery County, Maryland, activates if communications are needed in times of emergency, called RACES (Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service). On Sept. 11, Montgomery County activated RACES to set up a hospital radio net that links communications among the main county hospitals; this was to faciliate communications among hospitals and the county Emergency Operations Center in case large numbers of the injured from the Pentagon were to be sent to Montgomery County. I was placed on stand by to report for a later shift - but it was soon determined that the wounded from the Pentagon were being handled by other hospitals and the net could close. I don't remember if we took the next day off from work or if we went into work. I do remember that the trains into work on the first day that I went back seemed unusually quiet. I learned that an attorney I knew, Lisa Raines, had been on the plane that flew into the Pentagon. Lisa and I had participated in the intellectual property/patent committee of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). Two of the people in my offices saw the plane that hit the Pentagon. The first person saw the plane as it flew east toward the Washington, as she was driving east on route 66 in Virginia. She said it seemed to be following route 66. The other person was driving on one of the highways that run in front of the Pentagon; he saw the plane just before it hit the Pentagon. I received an e-mail from a friend who works at Amgen and from whom I had not heard in years; she wrote to tell me that a friend of hers who worked with Amgen and who had been in D.C. appearing before the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) had been on the plane that hit the Pentagon; she said her friend had felt lucky to catch that early flight because it meant she could be home to California sooner than she had expected. Two of our attorneys were traveling and in Denver that day. When planes were grounded, they could not travel home. They rented a car and drove back to Virginia. 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 story11113.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I work in a small law firm in downtown Washington, DC, about two blocks from the White House. At approximately 9:00 am on September 11, 2001, I was at work when I first heard something about a 'helicopter' crash. Then, I heard something about a 'small plane' crashing into the World Trade Center. Then, panic gripped our office as more accurate details of what had happened in New York City came in. We learned, finally, that both building had been hit by commercial airliners, and that this was obviously more than an accident. At one point, while speaking with my wife, Jessica, on the phone, she heard an a loud noise that she couldn't account for, but didn't immediately mention it to me. It was the sound of a plane hitting the Pentagon. As we learned about the collapse of the WTC buildings, and rumors swirled about planes heading toward D.C. and bombs going off around the city, our office closed for the day, and everyone attempted to go home. With cell phones out of service, thousands of people milling around of sidewalks, streets around the White House being closed by Secret Service agents, the Metro closed and taxis unavailable, it seemed that the city was completely paralyzed, and I was not sure how to get out. Finally, the Metro re-opened long enough for me to get across the Potomac to the Pentagon. Then, the Metro closed again, and we were forced to take a bus, which took a long time to arrive. Meanwhile, we could see the sky filled with smoke from the plane crash at the Pentagon. After the bus came and crawled down the street taking hours to go a few feet, I got off the bus, walked for a couple of miles, found a taxi, took it part of the way, got back on the train, got back to my car, and drove home. The odyssey took 6 hours from the time of the first news about the terrorist attacks, when the trip normally took one hour. My wife and son were very glad to see me, and I, them. We thank God for the actions of those aboard the United flight that went down over Pennsylvania, possibly sparing the lives of many in D.C., including my own. The horror of the moment, the courage of so many, and the grace of God exhibited on September 11 will always be with me. Osama bin Laden's movement is satanic, but out of such evil came such noble and heroic conduct on the part of many in our country. To the extent that America has become more of police state since that day, I am sad. It was hard for us to sleep for a long time afterwards. The world has changed before and will do so again, but the change that we experienced on September 11 was profound. May God be glorified in all of these things. 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 story470.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I am a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. In addition to our weekly broadcasts of Music and the Spoken Word, we occasionally do special performances when conventions are in town. Patriotic songs such as The Battle Hymn of the Republic, America the Beautiful, and God Bless America are always audience favorites at these concerts. On the evening of Sept. 11, 2001, we were scheduled to perform for thousands of financial advisers who were meeting in Salt Lake City. The date of Sept. 11th had been marked on our calendars for some time, and we had been looking forward to it. Little did we know how significant that date would become in our nation's history. That night we gathered in the Tabernacle, numbed by the day's events. We were told that some in the audience had been personally affected by the tragedy, and many were worried about loved ones, friends, and business associates who were in the World Trade Center that day. Wise leaders dropped some of the lighter tunes from our concert program to make it less a concert than a prayer service and memorial to the fallen. But one patriotic song seemed especially poignant, even necessary, on that occasion. "God bless America," we sang, "land that I love." Thousands of Americans, brought together by fate from every part of the nation, shed many tears that night--tears of pain for our country, and sorrow for the many lives lost. But we also shed tears of joy, for we knew that the familiar refrain was true, more true now than it had ever been: We loved America. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was three months pregnant sleeping, when my boyfriend came home from work early in the morning. He woke me up and told me to bring my blanket to the living room and watch the news. I said why then he said, "Something really bad has happen to New York city." Therefore, as were watching the news the first trade center building was hit. Then out from the bloom you see the second plan crash right into the second trade center. As I am watching, you could see people jumping out from the tower and in my head; all I was thinking is that I hope everyone gets out alive and safe. Watching the TV I see people in New York just watching and a lot of their mouth is open and sock of this happening. Then all of a sudden, I see the second building just clasping like its nothing and then people starts running like crazy to get away from the fall of the building. A few minute after that you see the first building that was hit finally, start to fall down. By now, I was scared and crying. An hour after that my boyfriends mom came home from work cause she worked with the government so they order all the government workers to go home right away. I was so afraid and bagged my boyfriend not to go to work because I still want to see him. Scared and worried about my family and my unborn son is this the end of the world. I am still scared tell this day and get nightmares of 911 and how things were and what was going on that day. Just to know that everyone of our lives was at stake and we were not safe as if we thought we all were here at our own home. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was actually up in the air on a Delta flight from Atlanta when the terrorist attacks occurred. Our pilot waited to tell us until after our plane landed in Dallas ,Texas in order to announce to us that ?all air traffic was grounded because of terrorist attacks invloving airplanes against our nation?s capitol and the World Trade Center.? It was a very surreal moment. No one said a word. Everyone was in shock...half believing it was a some sick joke or something. I, being 24, was in total disbelief . An attack on our home soil? Our safety was something I never doubted up until that moment... something that I had always taken for granted without a thought. We all exited the plane in silence and walked into the Dallas airport...a scene of commotion and confusion. Almost everyone had a cell phone up to their ear. T.V?s blared with live coverage of the crash scenes. People were crying and hugging one another. Luggage was everywhere. All those flights that were meant to go on to other destinations were stranded, so the amount of luggage there was overwhelming. There was nowhere for the workers to put it all except on the floor everywhere. People were literally stepping over luggage that was randomly thrown all together on the floor throughout the airport. No one had the full story yet and the fact that I was all alone stranded in a strange city when our country was under attack was scary. What was going to be next the next target? A man behind me at one point said that there was another flight still up in the air that was believed to be hijacked. How frightening that we?d just been on a flight up in the air and it could have been any one of our flights involved. The fact that all of the victims and I had very similar lives that day...getting up early, getting ready for a morning flight, packing, heading to the airport, boarding a plane and taking off?made me put myself in their shoes and vividly feel what it must have been like to then learn that your plane has been hijacked. I started crying thinking about the terror the people on the hijacked planes must have felt and how they died for no reason except pure evil and irrational hate. I was stranded in Dallas for about two and a half days until I finally decided to take a 18 hour Greyhound bus ride to my original destination...Tucson, Arizona. What a horrible day for our nation. Let this forever make us value our liberty and freedom that our country fought and still fights for us to have. 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 story6001.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I work for a television station here in West Palm and unfortunately I was here at work watching all the events unfold on television minute by minute..My heart goes out to all those who suffered..God Bless you all 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 story2542.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. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 209.16.240.8 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 Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was 5 months pregnant at the time of the attacks. I had taken some temporary jobs to earn a little extra money to get ready for the baby. So I was sitting in work - in small office near the kitchen. I remember hearing a lot of people going in and out of the kitchen that morning talking - so I got up from my desk and asked one of the people what was going on. He said to me - Didn't you hear - a plane just crashed into the World Trade Center. I just stood there in complete shock - I couldn't believe what I was hearing and I just knew something was terribly wrong - that there was something more to it than a plane having a malfunction. I immediately rushed back to my office and went online and then called my mother. Then the other plane hit and my fear grew even more. All I could think about was my child. I stayed online all day in horror - not believing what I was hearing - I was in complete shock. The Trade Center - The Pentagon and the plane in Pennsylvania. When I left work that day all I could do was look up at the sky and wonder what was next. I went home watched the news and cried. 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 story6244.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was just out of the shower, running late, when Good Morning America went into a commercial, then seconds later came back with a bulletin. I knew something was wrong, because they don't do that unless it's something very important. I heard them talking about about an explosion in Manhattan and was watching when the second jet hit the WTC. I just stood there, seeing what had happened but not fully understanding the impact. I couldn't move - I just sat on the bed and watched for a good half-hour before coming to work. No one knew what had happened, as the rest of the staff comes in earlier than I do. We got a small TV hooked up to an antenna and watched what we could. I am publisher of a small weekly newspaper and we had time to get come coverage in that week's issue, as hard as it was. Sept. 11 is the birthday of one of our employees and it only dawned on us this week that she had no cake, no card, no good wishes. We won't forget this year. I have a good friend in Brooklyn and first checked with her. Her son was a student at Stuyvesant High School, in the shadows of the WTC buildings, and he escaped the area, but they were separated for several days. He was fine and made it home, but I can only imagine her fear and worry, which was only a fraction of what many others must have felt. Being from a rural Southern town, I didn't think I would be as affected, but I have been. Dena Birchfield, whose husband was on one of the planes, is from this area and many of us felt a link there; and none of us feels the same way when we fly, but I do what I did before 9-11 as much as possible. It still hurts, and it will hurt next week, but I think we have learned a lot about ourselves, hopefully enough that we never forget. It doesn't matter if you are from Manhattan in Kansas or New York, or Miami in Ohio or Florida; we are all part of a whole that was damaged and is still trying to heal. Again, I hope we never forget that. I won't. 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 story1569.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: Life had been like it always was. I had no worries, sports went on regularly and school was painful. It was a time when there were no worries. People, along with myself, felt safe. I was able to walk the streets and not worry about something happening to me. The morning it happened was like everyother day. I got through first period with a nice little nap. It wasn?t until later when everything went wrong. I was walking through the halls talking to some friends when one of them said something that caught me off-guard. He was talking about one of the football moms and how she had two friends die in planes that hit the world trade centers. I didn?t believe it and just went on to my next class. In the middle of class my teacher told us to head into one of the other classrooms as we walked in we saw footage of the first tower. As we watched we saw the second plane hit and both towers collapse. We watched in every class for the rest of the day. The events of that day changed my life. I was now more patriotic then ever. Hearing the national anthem before football games brings tears to my eyes. When I got home I was relieved to see my dad. He worked at the Pentagon and after this I respected him more. It was too close a call. I cared more about loved ones now. nothing was to be take for granted anymore. 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/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: My wife and I had just dropped off our 6 month old son for his first day of daycare at the daycare center in my office building in Pearl River, NY. My wife took the day off from work in case she needed to pick him up early and was on her way home. I had just arrived upstairs at my office on the 15th floor. Just as I was approaching my office, my assistant turned in her chair to tell me something as my cell phone rang on my belt clip. I motioned to my assistant to hold the thought and answered the call from my wife who told me what she heard on the radio in the car on the way home. "An airplane hit the twin towers..." she said. "Do we know anyone that's there?". "Cesar, Vince, Janet... damn I know so many people there. Which tower was hit?" I asked. Three years earlier I worked in the Information Technology Department of Marsh & McLennan, Inc. After a merger, our department went to hell and I took a job an investment firm in Midtown. A decision that ultimately might have saved my life. Everyone that worked in the Information Technology Department that was in the office when that first plane hit was destined to die. Back at the office I struggled with my feelings while trying to stay in control for my department's sake. When the 2nd plane hit, I began making moves to have everyone sent home. When word came that the Pentagon was hit, I dismissed my staff immediately to return home to their families which was the only place anyone wanted to be at that time. Safe or not, people want to be with their families when terror strikes. After leaving, I rushed to pick up my son at the day care center before our building was hit. As much of an impossibility it seemed (being over 20 miles from NYC) anything seemed possible at that time. Driving home, you saw people driving erratically, swerving, running red lights, doing anything to get home quickly. Listening to the radio and crying. It was terrible. And here I was with my son who was barely over the excitement of his first hour of daycare. It was so terrible. I arrived home to my wife whose eyes were bloodshot from crying. She was on the phone but hung up quickly to tell me "One of towers collapsed!". "Completely collapsed?" I asked in disbelief. I would have the gruesome opportunity to watch it replayed several times over the next 20 minutes or so. They replayed it so many times that the live shot of the 2nd tower coming down went completely unnoticed until Tom Brokaw actually said "... and there you see the 2nd tower coming down. Both towers are now gone.". His voice was eerily calm as he reported on this catastrophe. I'll never forget that day. The next few months were filled with memorial services and distraught family members of those that I knew and loved. It's been a year now, but I know for sure I will never see life the same as I saw it before. As much as people say the terrorists did not win, they did accomplish one task. They proved, once again to a new generation, how evil human beings can be. 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 story7721.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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