4 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: I received a phone call from my niece telling me that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. She didn't know what size it was but everyone at work throught that it was a private plane that had accidentially crash into the building. Then the 2nd plane hit and we all realized that this was no accident. Panic struck. My mother was visiting relatives in Oklahoma City and was due to fly out on the morning of 9/11/01. All I could think of was telling my mother not to get on the plane that was heading to Newark, NJ. Then the towers came down and as the 2nd one fell so did I. Every emotion swelled inside of me and flooded to the surface. One year later to the day those emotions still swell as I think of all the people who died in the name of a cause. I am angry and will always be because they took something from me that was very precious "my freedom". I fear for my country, the world and our children. May God bless them all and God Bless America. Cathie Fanti 9/11/02 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 story3548.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: A whole country away, we woke up at about the time the second plane slammed into the World Trade Center, then sat in stunned silence as the buildings toppled down to earth. I suppose at some point we got ourselves and our daughter ready for work and kindergarten, then made our way into downtown San Francisco with the radio tuned to news of the attacks. The news of a plane crash in Pennsylvania worried us as our aunt lives near Pittsburgh, but we later found out she was nowhere near the crash site. Downtown San Francisco was eerily quiet as people milled around the streets and buildings trying to make sense of the attacks. A unsubstantiated bomb threat at the hotel across the street from my place of work caused my manager to close the store for the day and send us all home to be with our families. I drove to my daughter's school to pick her up at dismissal time. I remember sitting on the steps of the school, trying to comprehend what was happening and wondering if the attacks would continue. The school is in the neighborhood I grew up in and is in the flight path of San Francisco International Airport. The silence was deafening - the absence of airplanes in the sky was so unusual. I couldn't help but think of friends in the police department and in the military, wondering what their necessary response would have to be. Although I did not personally know anyone who died as a result of the attacks, I still can not hear "God Bless America" without crying. Someday, we will understand the meaning of the September 11 attacks and look back to see how our country pulled together in the face of terror and tragedy. 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 story6976.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: My story takes place the Friday after September 11th. On my way to work on that Friday after the Twin towers fell, I still cried that morning at the time when our nation lost the first lives of that terrible morning. As I was driving down a winding country back road still crying, I didn't stop in time and rear ended the person in fron't of me. It didn't do too much damage to neither one of our vehicles. The man that I hit got out of his car and I got out of my van, still crying. I told him that I was very sorry that I hit his car and that I would get my insurance information. He said not to worry about it and gave me a nice warm hug and sent me on my way. This story shows that I'm not the only one with a warm heart and a kind spirit in these trying times. 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 story6916.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 the travel industry. I was at work that morning when the tragic events occurred. The next hour, day, week seemed to be an endless string of phone calls. We had travelers all over the country and out of the country who just wanted to be home with the family and friends. We couldn't help them. All we could do was to encourage them to rent a car and start driving. We had about 300 or so travelers out in Seattle, and probably 90% of them drove home. The one call I remember most vividly was a woman who called to cancel her flight home from Seattle to New Orleans. She cried saying that she just couldn't do it and if it took her several days to get home, she would just have to do it. I cried along with her. We did what we could. We donated money to the Red Cross. We donated blood to help the victims. We watched the news for hours at a time though nothing changed. Over the last year we have seen drastic changes in the world of air travel. I have flown myself, and feel confident that everything that can be done will be done to avoid the same thing happening again elsewhere. I'm 28 years old, and I cannot imagine that I will ever witness anything so devastating again in my lifetime. At least that is my hope. My thoughts go out to all those directly effected by the attacks. 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 name is Ron Bell and the following two stories are from two close personal friends of mine who were in The City on that fatefull day. I had the opportunity to go down to Ground Zero the following Saturday, Sept. 15, 2001. Here are their respective stories: This is just an account of what I was an eyewitness to. I was downtown in my old office @55 Broadway when a coworker said a plane had hit the WTC. We ran down to the street, of course, not knowing it was some kind of attack. Thousands of us on the street looking up to where the first fire was when without warning I watched a large airliner slam into the other tower. I remember thinking now this is no accident and I was too close, and we are under attack. It was a sight I will never forget. Like a disaster movie you see all on TV, everyone turned and ran from but only towards a safer distance. As we all watched in horror from what we thought was a safe distance and not being told to move any further away the buildings smoke turned from white building material to black soot and noticeable fires were getting larger. Pandemonium gripped the streets as ambulances and fire trucks headed towards the WTC. I personally did not see any jumping out of the towers, thank goodness, but all I could think of were the horrific circumstances happening 50 to 100 floors above the street before my very eyes. Also what occurred to me was where was all the air support, if were under attack why were there not air force jets patrolling the air, and where were the helicopters above directing rescue efforts below, like I witnessed after the bombing 8 years ago. The smell in the air was like the aftermath of firecrackers going off. The debris over the street was bits and pieces of the building. From the corner of Bay and liberty I decided to try to walk back to the court district where I was supposed to start jury duty at 10am but turned back thinking no way is a court bldg. going to be open. That is when I heard a tremendous crash and when I looked up what I thought was not possible was happening which was the implosion of the first tower. Only 5 minutes earlier I was much closer. I turned and ran towards One Chase Plaza corner of liberty and Nassau St. and felt pellets hitting my back, then a total whiteout. I feared a fireball would soon follow so I was running to get to the back side of the building I was headed to but the whiteout turned black and I among others I heard around me hugged the building. I remember thinking where am I and what seemed like a half a minute before I could see and make out that there was a safety on the other side of the glass building. People I could not see since my eyes and ears and lungs were filled with the soot pushed us forward but still that instant you see what you think is safety and knowing you are on the other side, that period is called panic. As someone is pounding on one of these huge windows trying to break in we were whisked towards a swinging doorway, and kept moving till we were 2 floors below the street. There I stayed for about an hour able to make some calls to my Mom and some friends. Soon afterwards I heard a huge explosion and heard it was the second tower that came down. As I walked outside I felt this is what war must look like. People dazed and confused, crying and hugging and shaking their heads. People, myself included, covered with white soot walking and looking down. Streets as far as 10 blocks away littered with burnt paper and soot as deep as 2 inches. I walked home and arrived by noon. I just write this account. I saw no acts of heroism and claim none but did witness all kinds of acts of kindness and dozens of brave emergency workers going towards disaster as I was trying to get as far away as possible. I am OK, but very sad, my eyes hurt me, I saw too much. May God be kind and may non of us experience close personal loss but not to be naive we all have experienced a personal loss our fellow New Yorkers an attack on our very way of life and first hand knowledge that we are not safe from global terrorism. I witnessed true horror today. Let us mourn our loss. Dave Here is Story number 2 from my former college roomate: I am so happy to be alive. If I had been on time for my appointment 2 blocks from World Trade or the poor misguided souls flying those planes today had been 15 minutes late on their gruesome errand this might have been an entirely different day for me. Fully swallowing this facts feels like... I don't know... indescribable... no try this. Mixed in with the feelings of grief, shock, fear, helplessness is the brightest vain of happiness, which is my total relief to still be on this planet. It makes me feel selfish and guilty to dwell on this when thousands of other people are in deep life altering pain tonight. Despite the fact that my backyard has become the scene of tragedy so much larger them my ability to comprehend. Through the luck of the draw I was spared and given a gift. The opportunity to spend the rest of my life making sure not a single moment is wasted, a beautiful day spent inside or the opportunity to smile passed up. This is only confronting what has always been true. My days here are short, wasting them is a crime. I wish the events of today on no one. But there is beauty in narrowly avoiding catastrophe, close enough to feel the suffering but far enough away to learn from it. Maybe this is what I was supposed to learn from so many other moments in my life. I regret it took until today. To say I fully comprehend everything happening around me today would be a lie. I was witness to horrendous destruction and loss of human life. These things do not pass lightly through the human soul. I will with my family, friends, neighbors and coworkers figure out what this all means and how to re-assemble what will pass for normal life in time. But a life without those 2 towers that seemed to watch over us. Reminding us with every glance what a special place we lived in. How invicible we all were. Even now looking downtown is disorienting because the view has changed so drastically. It was impossible but it happened. But for now time has slowed down, the city a ghost town but for the scream of sirens up and down the wide empty avenues. The anonymous faces on the sidewalks are hollow and expressionless from what I assume is the shock of trying to accept the unimaginable. The occasional roar of fighter jets passing over head causes a flicker of fear. I can't imagine what it will be like when the normal din of air traffic resumes. Fall is peaking out, the days are quickly getting shorter. Normally this change of season, the dry cool days, gives everyone a little spring in their step. The weather today was beautiful, a perfect fall day, which some how makes it worse. In the coming months the change to winter will help wash away the awful truth. I look forward to forgetting this day. - Dustin - 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: I was at home after dropping off my daughter at school. I was watching the local news when a special report came on and I watched in horror as the one tower was on fire. I was with my girlfriend and she and I kept saying get everyone out of the building and most will be o.k. When all of a sudden we saw the airplane come in and hit the second tower. All I could do was stare and think to myself this is a bad movie. Now I kept waiting to see if people would be coming out of the building. Nobody was coming out. I kept saying where are the people. I couldn't keep my eyes off the TV the whole time. When all of a sudden it seemed like seconds instead of minutes the first tower fell. I screamed and I said to my girlfriend I wish they would let everybody out. Then the second tower fell and I just sat there so horrified I couldn't speak or move. I was so scared. Then I didn't know where my husband was because he was on a plane in the air that morning going on a business trip. I was able to get in touch with a friend at work and found out he was safe on the ground in Pittsburgh. Then they said a plane had fallen in the Pittsburgh area. I started to panic. I can't tell you how upset I was because I didn't know how close he was to that plane that went down. I didn't get to talk to him until six hours later. I didn't see him until the next morning because he could not get out of Pittsburgh until then. He walked in the door at 11 pm the following night and I was never so grateful to see anybody in my whole life. I can't imagine how those people who lost their loved ones felt that day. I wish I never have to feel like that again. Unfortunatly, I don't think we will have that luxury. I hope that if there is ever another attack it is not as devastating as this was. I also have one more thought before I conclude. It could have been so much worse because those buildings alone could hold over I believe but don't quote me but I believe over 50,000 people and over 2000 perished. It could have been the whole Pentagon and it was only a section. Those heros that where on the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania kept anyone else from dying because the government believes that they were headed for the capital building. So there it is it was tragic and wrong and evil but I believe it happened so that the United States can come to realize that we are just as vulnerable as the rest of this world is to all evil. May God bless all the souls who I do believe are in heaven now and may he keep all of the families in his heart. Yours in Christ, Tracy A Auber 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 story4045.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 at home i switched on the TV. Thinking i was watching a film. about a bombing. i actually thought it was a movie. then to my horror i realisled after watching PEOPLE!! really jumping for their lives. i thought, oh my god this looks too real. it was real. i just couldnt believe what i was seeing. it will sty in my mind till the day i die. along with billions of other people. horrific wasnt the word there isnt a word to describe the feeling everyone feels for that masacre of human lives. i used to go to church as a child, i havnt been there in years, as i do not believe there is a god above who could let this happen to human lives. innocent ones at that. my thoughts are with there families, not only them but the firefighters, and there famlies, it was a absolutely disgusting way to show the world how terrorism exists. it should never had nor should never happen again... we have had our fair share of war, murder,vietnam,911s, lockerbies, etc..etc...etc.. dont let there be any more........please!... our children and our childrens children.. need a world to live in ???? let us let them breath fresh air not a nuclear one!!!.. just bear that in mind. i do everyday. just let them see tommorow. 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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 school when the plane crashed one of our teachers was watching the news during study hall. and he ran in the class I was in and said a plane crashed in the WTC1 was hit by a plane so we turn on the tv and saw the second plane crash in the other WTC when I saw what happened I was inraged with anger and said: ( who ever had a part in this sick act have mercy on their soul.) I knew this wasn't an accident when the second plane crashed. I asked myself who would do this and what did we do to them to make them want to cause this it was scary. and I went to my teacher and asked him what did we do to them to do this he anwered with I don't know then I told him if they tried to get our attention they got it for sure. but I felt bad for all the ones who lost their husband,wifes,mommys,daddys,and grandparnents. So I wish them love and support by all of us. 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 story2027.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: My first awareness of what was happening came by way of a phone call from my wife after the first plane hit but before the second one. I immediately turned on a portable radio I keep at the office to confirm what was happening and then sent a brief "all hands" message (now unfortunately lost) to my colleagues in the Office of Space Science here at NASA Headquarters. I then went down to a conference room that had a TV to watch the unfolding events. An image came on taken from the roof of the White House that showed a huge plume of smoke in the background, and the commentator remarked that it seemed to be coming from the Pentagon. I remember remarking something to the effect that if this was true then we should be able to see it from the window in our office suite that looked due west toward the Pentagon. I stepped out to look and confirmed in a second that it was true: the Pentagon had been hit as well. The rest of that morning is now a blur of watching TV, talking to my wife by phone, emergency staff meetings, and hearing the announcement that the Government was closing for the day and that we were to evacuate the building as soon as possible. However, by then the local streets, as well as the freeway that I would need to use, were in gridlock so I decided to just stay put until things cleared out. I went down to our in-building deli to get some lunch and bought a bottle of water for the trip home whenever that might be possibe. Finally about one o'clock the streets looked clear so I retrieved my car and started out. Never had I seen the streets of Washington so absolutely deserted: it was as though everyone had simply evaporated. That memory itself remains in my mind as one of the most dramatic of that day. My route home crosses the Potomac River on the 14th Street bridge where I then exit onto the Washington Memorial Parkway to head south. When using this cloverleaf exit the eye sweeps across the entire east face of the Pentagon (indeed, one of the few places where it can be easily, though briefly, seen from a car on any of the major highways), and the smoke from the funeral pyre from its west side formed an ugly black smudge against the otherwise brilliantly clear blue sky. As I type this rememberance I'm listening to the recitation of the Gettysburg Address at the One Year memorial service in New York City. Some have disparaged that these words by Lincoln have been overused but in my estimation never before have they been more appropriate or meaningful, and indeed trying to find new ones appropriate to the occasion stikes me as a exercise in hubris. They're now reading the names of all those who died there, which will take the order of several hours according to the radio announcers. It's amazing how many of these names are distinctly not the usual sounding ones that we tend to recognize as "American." Clearly an enormous number of non-U.S. citizens, or at least recent U.S. immigrants, died that day, and I'm not sure that this fact has been properly recognized and advertised - the acts of barbarism that day were really against all peoples of the world and not just those of the United States. More and more I feel myself as a citizen of the world and not just that of one country. Maybe that's a consequence of working for NASA where I'm constantly exposed to various images of our Earth from space, images of our own Milky Way galaxy that show millions of other stars like our own Sun, and then the images of the myriad of other galaxies in the depths of space itself. Good grief, we can't even claim to be speck of dust in our own cosmic neighborhood much less one in the larger scheme of things. I'm led to recall those plaintive words by Rodney King, to the effect 'Why can't we all just get along?' I'm also reminded of Carl Sagan's wonderful essay entitled THE PALE BLUE DOT that I recast in free verse last year after the attack, and which I now use to end this memoir. THE PALE BLUE DOT - Carl Sagan (1934-1996) Excerpted from a commencement address delivered May 11, 1996, concerning the image of Earth as it appears in a ?portrait? of the Solar System, taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft from deep interplanetary space. ********** ? We succeeded in taking that picture, and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives on it. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sun beam. ? The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. ? Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity ? in all this vastness ? there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. 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 story2481.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. 131.182.108.123 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: How did you witness history on September 11th? Share your experience. I was watching television when it showed that a plane had crashed into one of the towers. I was listening to the people on Channel 13 talking about what had happened when all at once they said the second tower had been hit also by a plane. I was shocked and couldn't believe what had happened. My mind kept telling me something was very wrong. Has your life changed because of September 11,2001? If so, tell us how. Yes, my life has changed alot. I pay more attention to other people, their actions and what their possible intentions may be. We need to be more caring about each other today. What do you think should be remembered about September 11th? I feel this was a dastardly act and that we should never take for granted that the United States is untouchable for being attacked. I feel that this could have been prevented if President Clinton hadn't cut the money and reduced the capability of U.S. intelligence services. We must be alert at all times. Did you fly an American flag after the events of September 11th? Have your feelings about the American flag changed as a result of September 11th? Yes, I did in order to show we can never be defeated for we will stand for the flag always and our freedom. Yes, because this is a symbol of our faith. 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: It was my daughter's 20th birthday. I was very pleased to have been able to phone her at her University in Belfast to tell her "happy birthday" and that I loved her before the attack happened. In a few hours I didn't know if I'd ever see her again. I didn't know if I'd ever get back to my family; I didn't know what was happening. It was two months before I was confident to fly back to them. 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: I remember waking up to what may have been the most horific tragedy I have ever witnessed. I will never forget this day. As soon as I heard the news all I could think of was where all the people that I loved were at that very moment. I could not imagine the hurt and the pain that so many people had to go through because of the terrorist act. I also feel that even though I did not lose anyone close to me from this incident, I still feel that I have lost something, but in returned gained the strength to move on and always cherish life and to cherish the love of my family and friends. It has opened up a place in my heart that just keeps getting bigger every day, in a way I am thankful because it has given me something that has made me realize what I have and what I do with it. I just want to say to all the families who have lost their loved ones that they are not gone, they are watching over us from the heavens above and will always be with you. 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 story4064.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. 207.220.137.119 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: It was a normal day, I was hanging out with my friends before class when the bell rung at 9:00. We all went upstairs to our class and went inside. Our teacher always put the news on so we didn't pay much attention. Until some people started saying, "Whoa, what happened?", and we looked at the T.V. We saw a building with smoke around it. At first, I didn't know what building it was and thought it was just a fire. Then my friends told it was the Twin Towers and a plane had crashed into it. I had know idea why it would have crashed. We weren't prepared for what was to happen next. I'm not sure why I didn't see it or remember it, probably I had my back turned or was talking to someone, but my friends did. A second plane hit the other Towers. A couple girls screamed and I looked. I saw the plane's explosion come out the other end. It was just pure black booming out of the building. Then we heard that it had been a terrorist attack. On T.V., we saw people talking to the camera and crying about what had happened. To tell you the truth, I didn't really feel anything at first. Of course, I didn't feel good, and although I tried, I couldn't feel sad for the people or for what had happened. It wasn't until this week, September 9-13, where we talked and watched things about 9/11, that I felt the magnitude of it. I saw the impact of the disaster, after hearing all the stories and looking at movies, I felt sad for them. I really feel bad now how someone could have done such a horrible, terrible thing. But I know America will still live on. 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 story5010.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. 65.80.247.176 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 puttting my daughter to sleep on that terrible morning of September 11,2001. I was playing poker when someone said the WTC had been hit by a plane. I quickly went upstairs, put my sleeping daughter in her crib, and went to tell my husband who was off that day watching sport center. We turned to CNN and went to the Today show, and we horrified. When the plane went down in PA., which is an hour and a half from my home, I went to school to get my son out. I was in a state of shock. I told my 7 year old that there were bad people trying to hurt people and I wanted him home with his family. I think of the people who lost their lives that day quite often. My heart goes out to their families. I cried for days after Sept. 11 and still do. The firefighters and police who lost their lives trying to save lives hurts so much. They were so brave going in them buildings knowing they might not come out alive. They should make the meaning for the word HERO, cause that is what they are. They are and will always be hereos. The people on the planes who lost their lives not knowing what was going on is really sad. Flight 93, the people who lost their lives by saving maybe 1,000 of lives. They are heroes too.. I will never forget any of you. Never......... 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 story2462.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. 64.12.96.8 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: That morning was a late morning for me. I woke up late and was just about to leave for work and the neighbors heard me moving around. They grabbed me and told me to watch the TV. I went over right away. When I got their the first Tower came down and a few minutes later the second one fell and I cried. The rest of the day I sat at home hurt from what happened. I talked to my mom and my roommate and stayed by myself. 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 story4205.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. 198.81.17.21 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: The Impact of 9/11 on Our Society and on Subsequent Disaster Mental Health Efforts Complacency took a serious blow on 9/11 and millions of us began rethinking the ultimate priorities of life. Suddenly Americans had to stop and consider things wed prefer not to face about the ways we live our individual and collective lives. Everyone in the helping professions shared something in common with many of our clients we all came to better understand our own vulnerability as we watched in horror as others suffered. Many of us found it harder to cope, as our usual healthy defenses were tested and, in some cases, began to fail. At the time, many of my colleagues reported feeling fear, helplessness, and anger at depths theyd never previously experienced. Government workers were especially hard hit, psychologically, as buildings were evacuated. Returning the next workday was especially hard for Federal workers in DC area, as many worried What if we are the next target? Many usually peace-loving people found themselves with an urge to bomb someone in retaliation. Three years later, the ongoing war on terrorism continues and we all hope and pray it is successful in preventing anything like this from happening again. Since 9/11 we have seen dramatic changes in social relationships. Many people made major moves - some more quickly married than they had originally planned, others tired of unhappiness in their lives and separated or divorced. Many folks travel less and cocoon more - family time is more important to them. Finding time for small pleasures (like attending all kids activities) is easier and people make sure to stay in closer touch with family members and friends. People say goodbye differently and many people physically moved back to communities they long considered their real homes. In the short run, we became a kinder, gentler society. While I was in NY in late 2001, I saw an editorial page essay on fears about the city becoming the Seattle of the East (people were holding doors open, allowing lane changes without blasting their horns, and displaying less cursing and in-your-face attitude). The same types of positive changes happened in many other parts of our nation too. Sadly, this has, for the most part, worn off during the ensuing years and weve returned to our old ways. Our patriotism soared for a while, as people developed a strong sense of national pride, the likes of which wed not experienced since Pearl Harbor was attacked. Sadly, so did our nations racist tendencies, as many people began targeting Arabs, Muslims, and others who stood out as different and were visiting or living here in America with verbal harassment, vandalism, and even physical assaults after all, many people seemed to think, they could be terrorists too. As a society, we have begun to place increased value on public service and on volunteerism. Weve seen increased respect for the roles our police, fire/rescue, emergency service personnel, and even the roles other health/human service workers play in our society. After 9/11, many Americans also did some serious rethinking about issues of work and money. Folks were asking themselves: Did I pick the right job? (and the right career); Is it worth it? (to put in so much overtime); and Is this really what I want to do with my life? Consequently, there were many career transformations due to post-9/11 introspection on employment issues. We learned that 24/7 TV coverage created overexposure to trauma. Many people feared missing something that was new and important, so they watched and waited. In the process, they saw the buildings attacked over and over again (or whatever the event happened to be). Many people needed permission/direction to stop watching. It seems the media has gradually begun to recognize this phenomena and has become somewhat more responsible in their anniversary coverage. I continue to often think about the victims, the survivors, and the many dedicated colleagues who served with me on the two assignments. My volunteer work in disaster relief constantly reinforces the fact that people are incredibly strong and resilient. Most of what we value in ourselves and in others our character and our inner strength has not come to us easily and quickly. It has come to us via the slow and difficult process of experiencing and overcoming the adverse events weve already faced in our lives. The events of 9/11 have presented us with a defining moment and it is now our responsibility to do something meaningful in response to it. * * * If I had to pick one major lesson learned from my disaster relief experiences, it would have to be the importance of careful screening, proactive supervision and daily self-care efforts to keep the entire workforce safe and sound. My greatest frustration while serving in mass casualty assignments usually comes from the troubling behaviors of a very small group of my fellow relief workers who end up requiring large amounts of administrative staff time. Sadly, there have been many people who required investigation and intervention following incidents of sexual harassment no big surprise, as this is an unfortunate part of our culture. Nevertheless, it requires lots of careful work by skilled people to quickly and thoroughly resolve these distracting situations whenever they arise. Even more troubling to me, though, were the self-proclaimed trauma experts who told me they had wasted their time coming to help, because they had not gotten to spend their entire assignment working at ground zero. These same people had trouble following directions (and some seemed prone to freelancing). In retrospect, it strikes me that tighter screening of personnel might be able to help with this in future operations. Till we come up with a better vetting process, consider using this overly simple one. Ask people: How do you think you can best help us with this relief operation? A. By working at or near ground zero. B. By working anyplace but ground zero. C. By working wherever you need me. Those who answer A have a greater potential for becoming part of the problem rather than the solution use with care (if at all). Those who answer B probably have good insight into their own strengths, needs, and tolerances use them in low-stress settings. Those who answer C tend to be the best workers for sensitive and high-stress locations. 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 story21288.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 driving in my car across town to a tech-school I was attending at the time. I had the radio on and there came an interuption from the radio broadcast. He said a plane has crashed into The World Trade Center. When I first heard that an airplane crashed into the twin towers I first thought, "How could a pilot hit them? They're so huge!" It didn't quite sink in yet on how much damage a plane could do to them. I arrived to my class to find that my small class had heard the news also. We were talking and exchanging what little information we knew at the time. Our substiture for the day came in and rushed to find a working TV. We struggled to get an outside wire and turned it on two minutes before the 2nd plane crashed. When I saw the 1st tower on TV with the smoke coming out of it I thought, "This can't be real. It has to be fake." I chose not to believe it until two minutes later I saw another plane crash into the 2nd tower LIVE. I could feel the panic in my class mates as we all wondered, "What's going on?" It sank in fast how very real this was and that is was no accident. We stared in awe as we watched New York panic and run in horror. The only things that managed to come out of our mouths for the following minutes were words like, "Oh my gosh", "Oh no," and "What's going on?" We were mesmerized by the attack and didn't know what else to do but watch in devistation. The towers collapsed and we lost our emotion. We couldn't take in what was happening because it was all so horrible so fast without any explanation. We were ordered to continue our day and go to our individual high schools. I remember that I didn't return to my school that day. I felt vulnerable and unsafe. I drove around that day listening to the radio and hearing about the other 2 planes. I still couldn't believe that this was happening. I read and hear stories like this in history books by I never expected to be experiencing. All day I kept thinking, "What's next?" and "Is it going to end?" Airlines were ordered to land the planes which caused an erie silence and suspence in the sky. I didn't feel comfort until weeks after the attacks. Even though I didn't know anyone directly or personally involved in the tragedy, I still mourn for the loss of others and my own loss of my feeling protected in the U.S. My security and my rights were taken away on Sept. 11, and I was vialated in everything my country fought so hard for before. Reliving another Sept. 11, day has brought up old feelings of helplessness and some anxiety. I don't think another year in my life will go by where I don't question if it will happen again and if this time it'll be worse. I often think of how lucky I am to have not known someone involved but at the same time I feel guilty for the same reason. I can only pray that I will never know what it feels like to lose someone to such a tragedy. 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 story5076.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: Our thoughts and prayers go out to the survivors and we will always remember the heros and the families of both. We were visiting my husband's family and friends in his boyhood community of Y-City, AR. We walked into the truck stop for a cup of coffee and visit the locals currently there. Someone asked if we had heard about a plan hitting the World Trade Center and we said, "No". Where upon I said, "Please tell us this is an 'April Fools' joke in September." Unfortunately is wasn't. Soon after we returned to our RV trailer to watch the news on TV. It was looking seeing something out of a Hollywood Movie, But of course it wasn'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 story6368.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 at my desk listening to the radio when it was interupted stating that a plane crashed into the World Trade Center and that details were sketchy. My first reaction was that it was a plane crash never in a million years would I have imagined what was to come. Then another interuption saying another plane crashed into the other World Trade Center that is when panic set in my stomach I had a sick feeling that this was not a unsuspected plane crash. I spoke to other people in the office who also heard the news (I worked in the Boston Stock Exchange Building) and we decided we had to get out of there. In the meantime my son who is a shuttle driver for Hyatt at Boston Logan Airport called in a panic to get out of the building and get home these are terroist not plance crashes. When I exited the building it was chaos in the streets of Boston it was like we were being bombed you could see the anxiety and fear on people's faces. The train stations were packed with people everyone speaking to each other about what was going on as if we really understood that early in the game. When I finally got home I immediately put on the news and heard more details it was the most scary and shocking news I have ever heard I thought Kennedy's assisanation was horrific this was worse. I live right near Logan Airport and the quiet of no overhead planes just an occasional airforce jet were eerie. I think of the event almost daily with a pain in my heart for all the innocent lives lost that dreadful day and will bow my head and pray in silence on September 11, 2002. 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 story1248.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 in 6th grade and school had started only a few days before the attack happend. Around 9:45 all of the sixth grade teachers told us that we were combinding the classes and the principal had an announcement to make. Our principal told us that there was a plane that went down in Penn and two planes that crashed in New York, but they didn't mention the Pentagon. They told us that some parents would come to pick us up and we shouldn't worry. My parents didn't come and pick me up but I remember walking into my house and seeing everyone in the family room watching the news. They explained what happend and I watched all of the footage, but I didn't fully understand what had happend because I was too young. My mom had driven past the pentagon within minutes of the attack, but she made it home without witnessing the crash. My dad was on a business trip so he wasn't at the Pentagon that day, but he worked in the building and was fortunate enough not to have witnessed all of the destruction and chaos. It was a day that greatly affected a lot of people and I am fortunate enough not to have been personallly effected by all of the distruction. 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 story20824.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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