31 20 632 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Not to put a damper on anyones day... Two planes just crashed into both world trade center towers in NYC! The buildings are on fire, and they were big 737 cargo planes. Terrorists? We shall see.... This is the part about living in Washington that makes me nervous.... September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:24:14 -0400 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients Erina Moriarty September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. Lisa Hollingsworth September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Not to put a damper on anyones day... 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 email1.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. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. unknown Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. yes Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-01-18 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 24.132.212.52 Annotation Annotations to this item. Americans overseas Terrorism WTC, attack INTERNATIONAL Sep 11- Sep 21, 2001 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. it is surreal, it sort of looks normal except the police are everywhere, sirens go off periodically of emergency vehicles, the Arab shopping street which is a major thoroughfare is closed for any regular traffic, they say is is an emergency route, but I think it is to keep it quiet from conflict from arab american citizens and other citizens. at the moment all bridges in and out of staten island, an island borough of about 1.5 million people are shut down because they are searching for someone on the road they think is trouble. i went to a service at the synagogue last night, it ended with singing the star spangled banner and America the beautiful So far the people I know have at least 5 people missing. too many people i know personally saw bodies falling and jumping out of the towers and personally ran to get away from the oncoming cloud deluge of debris from the WTC. they just announced they reopened staten island, they don't tell us what they were looking for. three more buildings each 50 stories are structurally stable and may collapse, they lined dump trucks on the adjacent highway, each waiting in its turn to cart away rubble, and there are refrigerated trucks to cart away bodies. All the grocery chains and fish wholesalers have volunteered their refrigerated trucks. love, suzi September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. September 13, 2001 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Thursday 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 email638.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. unknown Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. unknown Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. yes Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-08-30 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 209.244.182.163 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. ---------- From: Timothy Stead <TStead@kennethpark.com> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:49 AM To: "'tstead@mindspring.com'" <tstead@mindspring.com> Rusty: It's getting goofy here. I swear I just heard military jet engines overhead. These are undoubtedly our aircraft, but still... I wish I was home with you. I'll email you when I leave. Timothy Stead Project Manager kennethpark Architects Tel: (212) 599-0044 Fax: (212) 599-0066 email: tstead@kennethpark.com September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:49 AM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients Rusty Stead September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. Timothy Stead September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. 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 email573.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. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. unknown Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. yes Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-08-22 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 138.89.184.220 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Sorry about the annoying format of this, but I thought youse might like it. _> I know this > is going to sound like a crazy idea, but if a group of terrorists > armed with determination can virtually stop the world's greatest > economy and nation, just imagine what we as Americans can do if we ban > together. Before you pass judgment, just think about the logic of > this for a moment and join in the effort. Then forward this e-mail to > everyone you know and ask them to help.Just as everyone else has over > the last several days, I have been wondering what I can do to help. > I've donated blood and I've donated to the charitable relief efforts, > but I've sat and thought about what can I do to help the economy? Our > airlines were shut down for almost a week, commerce virtually stopped, > America was stunned into silence and in the only time since the Great > Depression, Wall Street did stopped. This last year has been > especially rocky for our economy and the stock market. After an > unprecedented 10 years of growth, all of a sudden the stock market > declines and unemployment increases. The economists say that the leading market indicators are consumer confidence and consumer > spending. We've all watched the news, if Alan Greenspan (just one > man) can make a few remarks to Congress and impact the economy that > day, what would happen if all of America drew together and decided to > jump start the economy? It is time we show what we can do together and > that we WILL be the strongest nation on this earth.Now, what is my > crazy idea? On Sept. 20-23, in *addition* to your normal spending, > buy 1 additional item, use 1 additional service and donate $20 to your > favorite charity. I can hear the laughter now (you want us to help > America by shopping?), but I urge you to think of the logic ... What > better sign for us to show our consumer confidence and to support the > entire American economy then to buy American products and use American > services? You've been thinking of buying those new shoes. By buying > those shoes, you support the sales person, who can then in turn pay > their rent, who can pay the property taxes, who can then pay the > police, who can then buy groceries, etc. You say, I really don't need > anything right now, then buy an early Christmas or birthday gift and hold it. Don't make irrational decisions, but for those of you who > have the income and the wealth, we need you to make jobs. To make > jobs you need to use services and buy products. When these services > and products are bought taxes are generated and our government is > funded. The military actions we need to take are then paid for, as > well as the restoration of America.You don't have to do necessarily do > anything elaborate, just open your wallet to something you have been > putting off. While New York prepares to mourn the World Trade Center > Victims on Sept. 23, let's give the survivors jobs and a brighter, > secure future. Not one terrified that the economy will collapse just > like the buildings. So, during those 4 days make reservations for > your next vacation, buy a stock, look at a new car, take your kids to > the movies and ice cream, call your realtor, buy a boat/car/computer, > or buy a book/newspaper/magazine subscription. Then call your lawyer to review your will, review your insurance, schedule your teeth > cleaning, schedule your physical/mammogram/prostate exam, have your > tires rotated, get your car washed, go out to dinner, get your > hair/nails done or go to a theme park. Got the idea?Lastly, write a > $20.00 check to your favorite charity. A charity with money funnels > it into your local community and the economic chain impact starts all > over again. If you can't afford to write a check, look around your > home ... do you have items you can donate to the local shelter or food > bank? Can you donate a couple of hours to help out a local charity so > that they can spend their dollars elsewhere? Do you have a few hours > to spare to run an errand for someone else who would like to help > out?In summary here is what you need to do:1. Say a prayer;2. > Tell a family member and a friend you love them;3. Continue your > normal spending;4. During Sept. 20-23 - buy 1 additional > product;5. During Sept. 20-23 - use 1 additional service; and6. > Send $20.00 to your favorite charity.Don't let the terrorists win. > Those Americans died because they were hard at work. When you pay for > this additional service or buy this additional product on those days, > tell the clerk "This is for America, we're taking charge" to remind > him why you've made this decision at this time. It will encourage > him/her to pass it on. Let's ban together. I'm going to, are > you?Pass this on. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Monday, September 17, 2001 7:43 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Don't Let the Terrorists Win 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 email12.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Colleen...although you and I have never met, you are in my thoughts just now....that's on a personal level....more pertinently however in the circumstances, I am pleased to provide a link between you and Jo and Peg. I phoned Jo at about midnight our time...she is of course pleased (understatement!!!!) that you're OK, and she asked me to send you her love and Peg's. In honesty she sounded 'knackered' (that's extremely tired!!) due I'm sure to her feelings of frustration/anger/concern.... and all accentuated by not being able to make contact with you and her other friends in America. Jo also asked me to say that she will make contact with you tomorrow....one way or another, if not by phone then through my e-mail service. I had a couple of beers in my 'local' Pub tonight. The conversation centered around the atrocities that your county has suffered...the collective feelings of my friends are of shock/disbelief of course, and of sympathy and support......and we're angry too! WE REALLY ARE ALL THINKING OF YOU.....LOTS OF LOVE - ( Pete) JO AND PEG September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. SEPTEMBER 11, 2002 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients COLLEEN SIMMONS September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. PETER HARRISON September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. We are all thinking of 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 email558.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. hi gran it's been a crazy couple of days. we watched most of what happened from our roof, and it was so strange, so horrible and so real. but it didn't feel like it could possibly be real. i felt sick all day, plenty of crying jags and the like. my eyes were aching by 9:00 last night from twelve straight hours of tv watching - i couldn't seem to do anything else, it seemed wrong. i shot about 7 rolls of film throughout the day, at various stages of burning, smoking, falling and smoking more. can you believe this? our phone lines are mostly jammed. and everyone is in shock. we went out to get groceries and water around noon, and you could see the enormous columns of smoke rising even from the street level. it really was like a preview of the apocalypse. when we walked past the italian grandmothers in their housecoats, they were all speaking in italian until they said hellos to us, at which point they just looked at us, shook their heads and said "i know," in english. and there's really nothing to say about something of this magnitude but that it happened, and that it was horrible. but almost as upset as i am about the human tragedy, i feel completely robbed at an architectural level, and in a particularly personal way. those towers were part of my world every day. i loved them. we could see them from our roof, from our street, from school. on a practical level, i don't know how i'll remember how to get to that part of town without them. which way is south on un-numbered streets. they simply aren't there anymore, and they were so exceedingly lovely. watching them fall was bad enough. like most wounds to the stomach, this one produced a lot of blood. the building looked almost as if it was bending over its busted, fiery gut, it was so human. but when they fell, they did it without the drama of most movie deaths; instead, straight down, like real death. but beyond those two casualties, i've cried every time i've seen any footage of pedestrians fleeing debris and smoke, people throwing themselves out of windows, or when i've heard calls on the local news, like this morning, of people phoning in trying to broadcast that they're looking for their girlfriend from the 108th floor who was wearing a white skirt. it's too horrible, granny. but i'm doing better today. i really don't think this would have happened if g.w. wasn't our president. thanks a lot, florida! and granny, i'm afraid of what he'll do. he's too belligerent. terrorism only escalates ever, there is no resolution to such violence insofar as it only begets more and more, and i fear his stupid, pugnacious instincts to bomb kabul (even if he denies it, who else would it be in such circumstances?), i fear the nuclear power that part of the world has and might use if he starts trying to bomb places that don't exist (except ideologically) by bombing countries that do exist, and that are full of innocent civilians. he's just dumb enough to get new york attacked again, perhaps more severely. but this is all too grave. i missed a day at the gym and saw something horrible - that's about the extent of the damage for us. brian even got to go running outside, but i felt too sick. as soon as we can get to manhattan, we're going to give blood. and the city really has been amazing - throughout the day i have gained as much faith in humanity as i lost at the start of it. there is an energy in the city that is indeed mournful, but that feels something like unity, almost like nation perhaps, a feeling i haven't honestly ever felt, having been born when i was, after the valour of world war 2 and the infamy of korea and vietnam. but it really isn't patriotism so much as comfort that i live among people who are so uniformly brave, calm and good when they have been tested so cruelly. i know it sounds overwrought, but it's simply true - fortitude and compassion are in the air with the smoke. i feel a little ridiculous saying all of this, but i just wanted to let you know what i was thinking, how it feels here. apparently martin sheen is too much to hope for, but for the next three years, we can at least have faith in the people around us, if not the man who (theoretically) leads us. i'm so glad you're both safe and that we are, too. i love you so much, m September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. September 12, 2001 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients Betty Philler September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. Meghan Sutherland September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. 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 email39.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. that plane was targeting Camp David and may have been shot down my milatrary!! We are going to War, thank God that Kevin is not older, he might be drafted September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Tue 9/11/2001 2:40 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients Eric Huff September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. Bronwyn Huff September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. hello 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 email508.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Tara, Thank you for your concern. Joe and I are both well. Joe's sister and her girlfriend are also safe. In fact we have been very fortunate in that all our friends are safe and accounted for. When this all happened, I was at LaGuardia airport waiting to get on a plane to go to Georgia on business. I was with another girl I work with. Her Mom called her on her cell at 9:00 to make sure she was okay. She didn't have much info other than a plane had crashed into the WTC. She didn't knowhow big the plane was or if it was a commercial flight. I called Joe on my cell and asked him to turn on the news and tell us what was happening. Joe told me what was being said on the news and I related it to the other people at the airport. When he mentioned that they were talking about terrorists, Tiffany and I decided to leave the airport. That was about 9:15-9:20. We were probably some of the first people to leave the airport. We jumped in a cab and asked them to take us to the city. We could see the towers burning from the freeway. After about 20 mins. in the cab listening to the radio, we realized we weren't going to be able to get into the city. Tiffany's family lives in Westchester, NY, so we decided to turn the cab around and head up there. We were watching the towers, and exiting one freeway and getting onto another, when we went behind some trees, and looked back at the WTC and saw that one of the buildings was missing. I spent the night at Tiffany's parent's house. I was able to get back home this afternoon. We live 12th St. No traffic is allowed below 14th St, so things are really quiet here. You can smell the fires from here, and we are 3 miles away. I was up at my frineds house on 72nd this evening, and you could start to smell the fires up there as well. On a happier note, Joe and I are going to have a baby. I am 3 1/2 months pregnant, due on March 2nd. We hope all is well with you and Scott. Love, Monica and Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tara Hempstead" <t.hempstead@gte.net> To: "Monica Sexton" <mojosexton@nyc.rr.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 1:55 PM Subject: How are you? > Hi Monica and Joe, > > It takes a disaster for me to write, eh. Anyhow, Scott and I are wondering > if you are well. I'm sure you two are being bombarded by email, so I'll > keep it short. Let us know how you're doing and TAKE CARE! > > -tara > September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Wednesday, September 12, 2001 1:55 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. How are 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 email444.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. well -- here we are in the morning. julia and i just came back from a walk around the neighborhood. we sat on the promenade and looked toward where the towers used to be -- there is still a huge cloud of smoke rising upwards, as things are still burning over there. we are both having a weird kind of selective memory loss -- we almost can't remember what the bldgs looked like -- we can barely remember them burning, and the collapse of the first tower that was so vivid yesterday, as i try to remember it, my brain shuts it off and won't let me go there. I sat there,looking at the smoke colums and empty space and just cried. i didn't really cry very much yesterday - it was mostly shock, but today... the tears won't stop. i think i am going to sit in a church now. though the promenade is like a church, there are tons of people there, as there were yesterday, just sitting and looking.it is our kind of memorial, as it is as close as we can get. i realize that for the rest of the country may have a harder time grasping this all... we are so in the middle of it. partially because of the compactness of this city, but also cause we are directly across the narrow part of the river from the towers. the humanity of it is in our faces. we are seeing people waliking around in a daze. the smoke smell is horrible -- it is so bad, it burns the inside of your nose.we finally had to open the windows.. we were walking around the 'hood and saw 4 fireman, walking towards the brooklyn bridge, headed back to the debris. they were of course, some of the first guys there, cause we are so close. at the same time two women passed us and said they had lost 7 guys from that company -- and they only have two trucks, so there is no way the company is very big. we both started crying. seeing those firemen walk towards the bridge, knowing their friends have died, going to risk their lives again... i can't tell you the pain this caused us. then we walked by the firehouse and saw discarded gear covered with soot and layers of ash and dust. i have a friend who is a fireman, and as of midnight last night, he was safe and accounted for. i feel very lucky. the sirens have not stopped since yesterday morning. the news is non stop -- pictures of downtown - terrifying -- and constant interviews with people with pictures, and stories, looking for people who are still missing. some of them spoke to their loved ones after the first plane hit, and now cannot find them . it is awful. i did hear a story of one guy, he was on the 102nd floor of the first bldg hit -- didn't listen to anyone's adivce, and took the elevator and is alive. we are going to try to give blood today -- julia has type O blood and she was turned away yesterday cause the had no more supplies to take it. okay -- well.. i guess this is all for now. we are keeping the email on most of the day again. this is so surreal, i feel like i am watching a flim.the world has changed. hope everyone is well. love to all September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:45:38 EDT September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. morning after in the city 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 email536.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. In a message dated 9/16/01 12:57:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, XXX writes: << Paula and I have been wondering if you're OK. Are you in New York, or were you there when the disaster happened? >> Sorry! I should have written sooner! I had just returned from NYC when it happened. In fact, I had attended a memorial service for an old friend at the Marriot ballroom in the WTC while there. Geez. But I am perfectly fine. And, um, moving to New York at the end of October. (I know, I know. Get the net.) It is hard to explain, but having the whole disaster happen just intensified my sense that NYC is my real home and where I belong, so it is time I got back there. (Besides, my mentor's son just had a kid, for whom I am going to be proud godmother, and that is a thing easier done up-close than at a distance.) Chances are good I'll be back in the TC during Oct. or Nov. getting the last of my stuff from Prairie House and putting in all my change of address forms and so on. (And renewing my passport! Bush with a blank check and no brakes on his addled brain is a scarey thought!) So I'm hoping we can get together and spend some quality time together while I'm there. ;-> Take care! September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 16 Sep 2001 18:53:08 EDT September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. TessMeara@aol.com September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Re: are you OK? 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 email61.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. From: Kapcar, Carissa Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 11:57 AM Subject: yesterday First of all, thanks to everyone who called yesterday to see if we were ok. Very thoughtful or you and appreciated. I'm also finding out through your emails today that many of you couldn't get through to DC phone lines...sorry that we weren't on email yesterday to reply either. We're ok..shaken up...but ok. I know that there are many stories floating around today on the news and internet about the survivors and eye-witnesses and who experienced what. While our experience was certainly not as heroic, dramatic or thankfully as tragic as some, I though I'd share the details and our perspective of the day with you nonetheless: As those of you who have visited us know, the Pentagon is about 3 miles from where we live in Arlington, VA...right across the river from DC. Yesterday AM I was at work in Virginia when we got news of what was happening in NYC. Everyone in my office found their way to a TV set to watch the events unfold. On TV we learned that there had been an explosion at the Pentagon and rumors were circulating of a fire on the National Mall. At this point I became very worried b/c Chris was working in Crystal City, Arlington yesterday...which is a group of mostly governmental buildings surrounding the Pentagon (his client is the Navy so he is usually at the Navy Yard in DC). I was also worried about Chris' sister who works downtown in the thick of things and friends of ours who work on Capitol Hill. Eventually I was able to use the phone lines and found Chris ... he was pretty scared b/c everyone in Crystal City was evacuating. Rumors were circulating that the USA Today buildings near our house had been bombed, the Supreme Court, the State Department and various other locations in the District. He takes the subway to work so was kinda of stuck right there in Crystal City (the subway didn't seem like the best place to be right then). We decided on a location in Arlington where we would meet b/c he thought he could get a ride there. Our office closed and I left work about 10:30 very frightened....everyone was telling each other to take care and not knowing really how to depart. As I was leaving there was talk that there was a commercial jet circling Dulles Airport (about 10 miles to the West) and also one headed back to Arlington/DC (about 4 miles to the East). I didn't know which way to go East or West...if I should take a major roadway or side roads, fill up with gas, etc. I ended up taking a highway and heading East to Arlington to find Chris...as I was driving helicopters and jets were flying overhead and cars with sirens pushing us off the road. I know that sounds dramatic, but it was surreal. A very long 4 mile drive needless to say. I waited for Chris at our meeting spot for about 90 minutes. I didn't know where he was. One of the spookiest moments of the day happened at this point, while I was standing outside looking for Chris.....there were ATF agents on the street and sirens, etc. A jet flew over head (which ended up being a US defense jet) and then there was silence - I think everyone was afraid it was another plane about to crash somewhere....again, I know this sounds dramatic, but during this silence I looked up an American flag still flying at full mast..and I angrily thought "why haven't they lowered the flag to half mast?!" And it struck me that we were still in the middle of this, that this (whatever it was) was still happening and that it was too soon to even lower the flag!!!!!!!!!! It was really scary to think that Bush was in an unknown location and that Cheney, the Cabinet and Hastert had all been taken out of DC b/c it wasn't safe enough for them..and here in DC/VA we sat. Chris finally came to the meeting spot. As it turns out the person who was to give him a ride couldn't even get out of the parking garage in Crystal City (somewhat funny story is that while he was in the garage for 20 minutes trying to get out, Chris saw 2 cars just back-up and ram directly into a cement pole in the garage..everyone was so frantic). After all of this Chris decided to walk to our house and then drive to our spot to meet. During his walk he went right by the Pentagon and saw the hole, apparently it was so smoky on the walk that he had to cover his face. It was bizarre how friendly everyone was being...a women asked him if he had accounted for all of his loved ones, and then asked if he could walk a few feet ahead of her in case anything/one was just ahead. So Chris and I found each other and tried to follow-one-another home. We got separated again b/c they had blocked off all the roads to our house since it is so close to the river and District. I had to leave my car in a parking lot about a mile away and walk home. My second spooky moment of the day was when I sat down right in the middle of a highway and put on my running shoes (I happened to have them with me to go to the gym) so I could walk home. As I'm putting on my shoes, I see a herd of people coming from where we live, walking toward me. Three of them had on chef uniforms and it just struck me as so bizarre....all of these people out walking on the streets, me sitting on the ground putting on sneakers and 3 chefs walking from Lord knows where to Lord knows where. Everyone was just in a daze. Walked home where I found Chris. His sister was also there who abandoned her car downtown and walked to our place. Later in the day we walked to an Irish pub close to our house and had dinner. Everyone in the pub was watching the TV and started cheering when Bush landed back in DC and Congress sang on the Capitol steps. Chris is working from home today and I'm headed there soon. Most schools and business are still closed. The District, VA and MD are all still in a state of emergency so there are armed guards on the streets and jets overhead still...a scary sound. The good news is that we have been in touch with most of our friends and everyone seems to be ok. Everyone has their own story from yesterday and I'm sure we'll all continue to retell them --- it took one of our girlfriends 5 hours to drive home from the Capitol to Virginia yesterday (should take 20 minutes) and one of our friends who lives on Columbia Pike, near the Pentagon lost all water pressure and had his windows shake when the plane hit. The plane flew down Columbia Pike and into the Pentagon (for those of you who have visited Columbus Pike is where I first lived when I moved here and where Bob & Edith's diner is). Thanks for putting up with this long and emotionally charged email. It was almost therapeutic for me to write, I think. There is something about needing to talk and communicate in odd times like these. I keep thinking that we are all over-reacting and being dramatic (I do have a tendency to do that).....but then I really think about what has happened. I hope that you have all accounted for your friends and family. I know a lot of you know people in NY and DC. I decided that I had learned three key lessons yesterday that I'll pass on (some more serious than others): 1. always have my cell phone with me (the one day I forgot it was yesterday). 2. carry sneakers with me (they saved me during the walk). 3. always know where those I care about are and make sure they always know that I love them...it was very scary for a few minutes yesterday when I couldn't find Chris and didn't remember which office he was working in. The only other thing I have to say is to continue praying for peace, b/c I'm worried that this is just the beginning of a time like none we've known before (again, that is a dramatic statement, I realize). Take care. love, C ps: the good news is that I found my car this AM and it was still there..no tickets or anything. Bridget, Chris' sister, also found hers and it is fine. I guess the DC parking police weren't exactly out yesterday! September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 9/12/01 September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. Carissa Kapcar September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Yesterday 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 email690.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. FROM GERMANY: HI JULIE & PETER, HOPE YOU AND ALL YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS ARE OK. WE ARE SO SHOCKED- NO WORDS FOR IT. OUR THOUGHTS ARE WITH YOU. ERIKA & ADRIAN September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 9/11/01 3:32:43 PM EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients JAZZ3056@AOL.COM September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. IKAWIENER@WEB.DE September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. HOW R YU 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 email180.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. All over Australia life has come to a slow, as people mourn America's loss. There are groups of people who have never met, gathered around TV's in shops and openly crying and saddned by your great tragedy today. Humanity all across the Earth has felt a giant disturbance in the force......... I hope this finds you well and safe. In deepest sadness... September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. september 11, 2001 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients Alison Lorraine September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. Pryce September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. all Australia mourns 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 email686.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. From: Timothy Stead <TStead@kennethpark.com> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:26:14 -0400 To: "'tstead@mindspring.com'" <tstead@mindspring.com> Rusty: I can't get through on the phone lines so I thought I'd try this. Keep your cell phone on. The two planes were hijacked from Boston Logan, it sounds like. I'm hearing some disturbing news, probably paranoia, that the subways down there were hit separately. I'm also hearing that Manhattan has been placed under a state of emergency and sealed off: no one in, no one out. We'll see how it goes. I may need you to call this guy in West Orange and cancel; his number is in the portfolio. Timothy Stead Project Manager kennethpark Architects Tel: (212) 599-0044 Fax: (212) 599-0066 email: tstead@kennethpark.com September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Tue 11 Sep 2001 09:26:14 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients Rusty Stead September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. Timothy Stead September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. 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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. This week has been a very frustrating week for society and me. I thank you for your blessings and sentiments of concern. I am well. However, I have written down what I experienced to better help me cope with this tragic experience. I encourage you to read what I have written and reflect upon it. Again thank you for your prayers and please continue to pray for the victims and their families of the September 11th Tragedy. "Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust." -Psalm 16:1 On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, I experienced the most traumatic event in my life. There are no words to describe the chaos, destruction and agony that occurred. Nor are there any words to describe the pain and sadness that resides inside my heart. However, this open letter will attempt to convey feelings of hope and encouragement, and begin the healing process for me. It is funny how life's little details are irrelevant during the course of a normal day. Things that appear systematic may not be in reality; however, we never take the time to question. For instance, at 9:11, there were three older women who sat in front of me on the Number 2 train. I positioned myself to take their seats in the event that they exited the train before me. They did. At 9:17, I noted the time and thought that I still had thirteen minutes to make it to the office before my workday was scheduled to start. Upon exiting the station, I looked at the Citibank ATMs and was reminded that I needed to go to the Citibank Branch at the World Trade Building during my 10:30 smoke break, to pay a bill. When I walked into the office, I noticed the clock read 9:35 (which was probably actually 9:30 since that clock always seemed to be running fast). There were two bank examiners, a male and a female talking in front of the men's bathroom. The male examiner must have been preparing to either leave for a bank or was just getting into the office because he was wearing the black computer backpack that was commonly used to tote our computers. I went to my cubical, took out my computer and began the process of booting it. I looked up over my cubical to see if my manager was in his office because I needed to discuss some business with him. Seeing that he was in his office and that he had just pulled someone into it, I decided to go to the restroom, wash my hands (the subway can be really disgusting), and clean out my coffee mug. The two examiners were still standing in front of the restroom, and I greeted them with a nod. When I returned to my cubical, I saw that my manager was available and thought that I would go in and talk with him as soon as I completed booting my computer and check my emails. I was happy to see that one of the summer analysts had been extended an offer and he was conveying his gratitude for me helping him during his internship. I quickly replied to him and sent the email off. I was thinking that he was a lucky young man (although he was a few years older than me). Suddenly at about 9:40, the building shook and the glass vibrated violently. It started off as a rumble and grew to an incredible indescribable noise. I thought it was an earthquake or something. I stood up along with the rest of the office, when I heard my manager scream, "Oh my God! The World Trade Building is on fire!" I ran into his office. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The flames shot from the upper levels of the building. The once glass encasing was gone to expose the twisted metal and burning floors. Paper was everywhere. It looked like a ticker-tape parade. I remember hearing one guy say, "I hope the FBI won't need those papers." I thought to myself, "What an asshole!" The scene became too much for me to bear when I saw a woman in a green dress (details so vivid), leap from what had to be at least the 90th floor. Why was she jumping? There was nothing at the end of her jump but her demise. How could this be happening? I cringed as I saw others who may have thought it was better to die instantly than to be burned alive, fall to their death. I couldn't take it anymore. I went back to my cubical, grabbed my phone and my cigarettes, and headed to the elevator. As I rode down from the 20th floor, I kept thinking that this couldn't be happening! People couldn't be dying within a couple of blocks of me! This is going to be a really bad day. When I got outside. There was madness. No one knew exactly what was happening. You see people running and crying. People who exited the subway station and had just missed the event, looked around in bewilderment at all the paper debris and begin to comment, "This city can get so dir-." I quickly called my mom to tell her what was happening. At that time all I could tell her was that the World Trade Building was ablaze, and that I was okay (I knew that this was about to make the daily news and I did not want her to be concerned.). I then called my roommate and told him the same thing. By this time, it was becoming increasingly difficult to make calls since everyone was using their cell phones. As I talked to my roommate, I moved to the side of my building to get a better look at the Towers. As soon as I hung up the phone, I heard the throttling engines of a plane. I looked up in time to see the second plane fly into the building. It flew right into the building. A burst of flames leaped from the building and again paper went flying into the air. The impact was strong enough to throw people to the ground for cover. The entire scene and experience was bad.very, very bad. The details of my experience that I have just conveyed, disturbs me the most. I am mad, and at whom I do not know. I swell with feelings of frustration and fury. The day has left a lasting impression on my life and the world. I pray for those whose life was shortened because of the event. There are no words to say how sorry I am that they had to die. I feel guilty and I don't know why. It is so hard. Life is very precious, and I know this. I do not worry about the future because I have always known that tomorrow is not guaranteed. However, dealing with the present is very difficult. I hope that everyone continues to pray for those people, who are still trapped under the rubble, who have lost someone very close to them, and who are experiencing what I am experiencing. I am writing this letter to help myself in the healing process. You may distribute it to whomever you feel could benefit from reading words that express what they experienced or how they may feel, and let them know that they are not alone. However, I ask that you do two things: 1) continue to pray for the victims of this tragedy; and 2) call at least 5 people in your life and tell them how much you love them. May God be with you. Calvin M. Bailey Jr. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:42:50 -0400 (EDT) September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients SCPP@umich.edu September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. Calvin Bailey September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Part of my healing process. 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 email486.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Stand Behind Me Terrorism: Inheriting the Winds Assigning Blame for the Attack on America on America* The Plaintive Rantings of a Southern American Writer/Lawyer/Environmentalist (*not a misprint) Lets not forget that while the patriotic old men of Congress are getting involved in their jingoistic process of calculating the strategy and cost of declaring and waging war, its our sons and daughters , our committed warriors, wholl be paying the price. Our soldiers are like the bacon in Jr. Johnsons (race car driver) terse parable on the difference between involved and committed: He was having breakfast one morning with a friend (Bill France) who was trying to persuade Junior to keep racing , but Junior had gotten to the stage where age and discretion were overtaking his hunger for valor and fame and said: For instance, youre eating bacon and eggs this morning. Think about this: That chicken was involved, but that hog was committed. Im involved in racing , but Im not committed. Ive always suspected that if the ones who declared the wars were bound to wage them, thered be substantially fewer wars. Im not, mind you, suggesting we shouldnt go for the head(s) of the terrorist snake(s) -whoever they are - and separate them from their bodies with all musterable haste. Not having done so in the case of Saddam Hussein may well account for why we are in the situation we find ourselves today. I am suggesting , however, that those involved in the declaration of war should first (1) study and decide (understand) both how and why we were attacked, not just by whom, (2) determine the best way to establish peace and not simply win a fight or destroy an enemy, (3) decide how best to accomplish (2) with minimal risk to our committed warriors , and (4) accomplish (1) through (3) with deliberation , discretion and, where called-for , stealth ( without telling CNN in advance every detail in our attack stratagem ) and without bankrupting our already teetering economy. Yes - we are, in the larger picture, as Michael Moore (TVs Roger & Me, in a widely-circulated e-article) and others have suggested , responsible for what has happened. I can abhor, deplore and dream of launching vengeful war against the doers of the disastrous deeds and still confess that Im in part, a very substantial part, responsible. Moore cites some of the reasons. We are in a sense inheriting the winds of wars weve allowed our politicians to wage on our collective behalf. The Arab terrorists are as berserk as they are hypocritical … sure; theres never been a true religion preaching war, at least one sanctioning the slaughter of innocent and non-military people. But . . . just how true is what I just said? You may have bought it for a moment, but just look at the current edition of the Old Testament - the archive of our moral history and our modern morality. Its the foundation of the Zionist conviction that there are in fact good enough reasons to wage wars of holy conversion and acquisition. Does capital-g God really have chosen ones? And, are they (the chosen ones) really just a few of us? Both the Muslim Koran and Judeo/Christian Bible say yes, yes. The Arabs are righteously enraged over Americas being allied with the religious group (The Nation of Israel) with whom they have been feuding since Abrahams progeny split similarly-semitic siblings into warring tribes. Stop just for a minute and think about walking a mile in their sandals - What if Mexicans all of a sudden declared they were going to retake and migrate into Texas because their god had told them it was their promised land and they should never have given it up.(Yeah, I know it looks like thats already happening, but stay with me here…) And what if, while you and I are down there defending the land of the Alamo with our six-guns and bowie knives, a flock of Apache-type attack helicopters armed with smart rockets and Vulcan machine guns appears out of nowhere and rips us and our bowie knives to smithereens? And suppose further that we discover that these helicopters were given to the Mexicans by their allies, the Nation of Columbia, and we call up Columbia and ask them for some helicopters and they say sorry, we no understand Ingles…. How long would we tolerate having the Mexicans ripping us apart with the Columbian war machines before we decide to pay the Columbians a little visit? George W is presently hinting that hes going to declare war against Afghanistan if it turns out they harbored Bin Laden - that is gave him a place to sleep and maybe preach to those future pilots of America. What would George W be threatening to do if it turned out Afghanistan gave Bin Laden the planes he used to take out the New York towers? Now take a second look at the way some Palestinians look at us. How zealous a warrior would the U.S. have been in our desert storm if that storm had not put our oil supplies in harms way? Answer that while considering all the post-soviet Euro-Asian conflicts (and here were talking atrocities and wars of ethnic extinction) we have either stayed the hell away from or insulated ourselves from via our comfortable nest in NATO. No, Im not saying the U.S. should be punished or that any one or nation has the right to attack any one of us. Im simply saying the West, to the rest of a backward and impoverished world - especially those countries Moore mentioned (Chile, Vietnam, Gaza, Salvador , etc.) is damned ugly. I think Moores cannons were a little loose with his juxtaposing the Twin Towers toppling with Bushs recent bull-in-the-china-shop blunders abroad regarding Kyoto, nuclear defense, etc . . . as its more than obvious that the terrorists plans to infarct Americas heart ante-dated Bushs idiotic actions by long months (or years). No - Bush (I wince to concede) is not to blame for New Yorks suffering. America itself, in significant part, is. We more than any other nation are responsible for the big picture problems of global warming , with our coal-powered industry and our wasteful , power-hungry society ; by our driving our gas-guzzling SUVs to the polls to vote for any cretin wholl guarantee us that, to keep those SUVs and ACs roaring, hell sacrifice our last sacred frontiers of natural life - and anything else, albeit Communist or Arab, that stands in the way of our manifest , capitalistic destiny. If we (simply and no more) follow the second Bush crusade into the desert to ferret out and destroy the enemy, and call the job done when we get Afghanistan to spit up Bin Laden, then well learn the French history lesson - Plus ca change, plus la meme chose … (What goes around keeps coming around). The big - B I G PICTURE history is painting for us now is one of near perfect symmetry (I did not say justice or Morality). Our 911 event was, in effect, one of the end results of our own reckless and heedless consumption and environmental exploitation rearing up, coming around and biting us on our back side (or rather piercing our heart - the ground zero of our capitalistic core). DC is only nominally our capitol. Our true capitol is Capital and the corporations that have made it and the power it wields the polar star of the guidance system for space ship earth. The ironies are staggering - and sobering. We are allies of Israel because we need a stronghold and point for military maneuvering in the Middle East to insure our continued control and ability to continue our course of killing our ecosystem through recklessly burning the earths fossil fuels - that energy from the sun, stored magically in those glistening benzene rings in the exchanging of which our nation and those of the middle east remain perpetually , if lovelessly engaged. And we need their (Israels) military intelligence and infrastructure for contingencies like desert storm and whatever George W is in the process of presently pursuing. And now come these maniacal messengers - these un-wise men from the East. Did they come to us atop Arabian stallions? Hardly. They came aboard our own ships, with Trojan stealth- each ship laden with 16,000 gallons of fossil fuel, drilled and pumped by our diamond-studded machines and steely inventiveness from the heart of the planet we are poisoning by piercing the spleen of its own body. This same fossil fuel, with a relatively modest assist from some relatively mediocre middle-eastern minds, was injected and ignited ironically in the soft belly of the animal who effectively unearthed it and set it at large. The irony of the ultimate utilization of fossil fuel to destroy the prime headquarters of the capitalist machine that engineered (through financing) its extraction and refinement is surpassed only by a collateral ecological irony and symmetry of mythical proportions. Environmentalists and perhaps all informed and intelligent observers of western society, especially American, would agree that the most damaging dual manifestation of our ecologically aberrant behavior is one enabled by our fossil-fuel industry - urban hypertrophy and sprawl. We centralize and concentrate our business and industry in areas which become so crowded from greedy over development that skyscraping mega-structures are the only remedies available (excluding long-extinct human self-restraint). We concentrate so much population and machination in urban areas that the resulting compression and waste production make living in the places we work impossibly expensive, unhealthy and aesthetically abhorrent. So New Yorkers build two twin towers 1300 feet high to house the offices of 45,000 people, who after work, get in their SUVs and trains and commute an average of 60 miles each way, converting in their progress a quarter million gallons of fuel a day into sky-smogging, lung clogging, acid-rain-making, and globe-warning greenhouse gas. Urban sprawl - living in the burbs is American societys fondest dream. And the environments worst nightmare. Architecturally , there may have been nothing more perfect in form and function than Manhattans twin towers. Ecologically there could be nothing uglier and more universally malignant than these daggers in the sky. Was the parable in Genesis 11 simply mythical , or was it perhaps prophetic? Of course there is more than a language gap dividing the people who occupied and those who destroyed the World Trade Center, but a gap in understanding and communications there certainly was, and remains between the radical Muslims and us western infidels. Wasnt the 911 event a little like the tale of Babels brazen tower? If there is, and I hope and pray its so, a kinship - if not identity - between creation (nature) and creator (God), then how could that creator not be as appalled at the arrogance and excessiveness of our late great towers as the God of the Old Testament was with the heavenly-heeped bricks of the Babylonians? If a giant alien, with super-sensitive hearing had placed his titanic ear to the wall outside , say, 16 or so floors of either twin tower, with all the business and financial and cyber chatter of the computers and cell phones going on inside, would he have described the noise as anything but babble (thats the origin of the word by the way)? Do we understand anything about Osama Bin Laden? Do he or his followers know or understand anything about the people in the skyscrapers? In the Old Testament story, the Lord just came down and scattered the people in the building to different parts of the world, since they no longer spoke the same language. Both we and the Arab terrorists have had access to the same story, but we didnt heed it. We all had e-mail, cell phones and FedEx to communicate with one other, but we were too busy . . . tending to business. Scattering the people apparently didnt fix things in the wake of Babels story, so this time, they scattered the building. The remarkable irony and symmetry of these events are in the choice of buildings. What all agree was the single most malevolent and heinous act of terrorism in the history of human kind (unless it was Hiroshima) amounts to the most efficacious and expeditious act of environmental remediation yet accomplished in America. I realize how quickly most would describe this observation as cruel and callous. I view it nonetheless as positive and hopeful. New York cant unfortunately raise her fallen from the dead, but the City does have an opportunity now to change directions., to evolve. History Lessons (And for those WW II patriots who would scream foul at my passing mention of Hiroshima in the context of debating the fallout of terrorism, let me pause in passing that that venue on the way over Nagasaki towards NY and DC and mention some fairly embarrassing undeniable realities. The American patriots would contend that our dropping the holocaust bombs on Japanese civilian populations was an act morally calculated to save lives, by ending the war in the Pacific , which the Japanese were to stubborn to concede. Well, I concede some of the logic (if not the sentiment) in that line of rhetoric defending our offensive war conduct and ethics. What I would point out after that concession however is the hypocrisy in our presently righteous rage. The Arabs (mostly Muslim) have been at war with Israel (90 percent Hebrew) for a half century, and we have been Israels allies in that war for decades, and it doesnt help the Arabs in their attitude toward us to hear that the U.S. Congress hasnt formally declared war on the Arabs. And while we are praising ourselves defensively for being Israels friends, loyal to them til the end in their struggle against their savage oppressors, lets take a second look there and apply the litmus strip for hypocritical national narcissism. America comes up hot pink. Israel is the national theocratic state of the Jews. These are the same people we watched in the late 30s and early 40s being politically oppressed , ultimately kidnapped and systematically murdered in Europe and Russia in numbers that 8 digits can scarcely embrace. Where were we then with our abiding love for and alliance with the Jewish people? No - we didnt declare our staunch support for the Jewish people until they fled from Europe to the desert and we found their Zionist dream coinciding with our capitalistic one . . which I suggest would never have occurred until the Jews set up an independent state in the midst of the Arabs who control an estimated 35 Percent of the globes oil reserves (our virtual lifes blood). As a personal anecdotal exclamation point to end this paragraph , Ill recall for your benefit the fact that in 1948, the year Israel declared its independent statehood, I was living in a typical American town with a population of about 60,000 (mainly Christian) souls. The town had one country club. Jews werent allowed. The Arabs know we are on Israels side, know we furnish them deadly arms and cutting-edge military expertise and know we collaborate with them in their cause (is this starting to sound a little like Bushs caveat to Afghanistan about those supporting, harboring or giving aid to our terrorist enemies being our enemies?). So far in the middle eastern war, how many Arabs do we suppose have been killed with American military planes and other weapons? Im no authority (at this point) but Id wager its a multiple of 6000. And for historic boot, the number of Japanese civilians who ultimately died in the original ground(s) zero and in their ten-year wake is in excess of 600,000 souls. Thats about 100 times our recent casualties combining air passengers and tenants of our Twin Towers and Pentagon. And for one final irony, wasnt it amazingly naïve for New Yorkers and the American media to have adopted as their badge of red courage the moniker the American Eagle left (ground zero) to mark the spot it laid down the nuclear neonates it fondly named Little Boy and Fat Man? In that analogy, making New York ground zero likens us to Imperial Japan, and our terrorists to . . . (you got it) us. Wake up , America and smell the napalm. Where have all the flowers gone? Before you answer, take this pop quiz (sorry, no million -dollar prize offered … only our lives depend on our ability to answer): How many wars have been fought over Palestine in the past 50 years? How many middle eastern countries have attacked and been attacked by Israel in that time? What country built the bomber and manufactured the bombs used by Israel when it unilaterally bombed Iraq over 20 years ago (remember, Saddam, Bagdad, desert storm and all that Defense of Kuwait thing we did a while back ?) to prevent them from building a nuclear power plant ? Whats the main religion of Kuwait now? Howabout Iraq? What would happen to America if our supply of mideastern oil was cut off? What would Americans have to do to end our dependency on Arab oil? Would Americans be willing to do any of those things? If wed never become dependent on Arab oil, would 6,000 more Americans be living today? What are the differences in the teachings of Muhammad (the 600AD born prophet in the religion of Islam) and those of Jesus Christ? Is there any significant difference in the stories and lessons taught in the Bible of the Judeo-Christian people and those taught in the Muslims Koran? How many Americans could pass (with a score of 50 percent) this quiz? Two (2) percent? Maybe. Ill tell you what the Average American knows about these issues and our Islamic enemies: babble babble babble When will (we) ever learn?) The World Trade Center for the most part today was archaic, even though the structure was only 29 years old. Computers and wireless communications have long ago enabled industry and business in general to decentralize, re-integrate and coordinate their collective activities in cyberspace. Contiguous walls and halls with paper trays and trails arent all that essential these days. Business must have some reception and conference rooms where physical objects and personalities can be touched and mingled. But the clocked-in , nine-to-five grind for all workers is just a vestigial habit in the cases of most corporate functioning, and the progressive and avante guarde are already paying their computer-equipped agents and employees to leave their SUVs in the garage awaiting the vacations they can now take . . . back in the big and exciting city, whose sun, moon and view of heaven need no longer be eclipsed by a row of megastructures. They do their working at home, where they can breathe the fresh air that millions of similarly-enlightened citizens didnt pollute with commuting to their employers urban centers. Every machine we have created which had a purpose or tendency to exploit either the environment or the more humble creatures we share it with has wound up being turned in our direction. Russia, Red China, Pakistan and India, and probably a dozen more of our potential enemies have our E=MC sqd creations in their arsenals. Theyre working on delivery systems as I write. Think of what wed be facing today if it had occurred to Bin Laden to have his kamikazies carry briefcase nukes aboard our four luxury airlines instead of plastic knives. Are we going to restrict our remedial plans to hunting down all terrorists and destroying them by preemptive strike? We dont have that many C.I. Agents, and the As we have apparently dont have that much I. So, now Ive joined Michael Moore and had my little purge. Its been a rant Ive needed to purge since the Arabs aborted my recent N.Y. trip (I had an appointment Wednesday, and was headed up there Tuesday morning when hell broke loose). Guess Allah spared me so I could burden other infidels with my own post-traumatic dis-ease. In closing, let me urge us all, while were cheering George W and the C.I.A. on in their pursuit of the dread desert rats who converted our planes into guided missiles , and while were out there standing behind George W. whos out there standing behind Colin P.and Norman S., who are out there standing behind our children who are out there standing behind the tanks, missiles and smart bombs that will be killing the people who stood behind the ones who killed us with those planes, we need to remember : (1) They were our planes. (2) Each one of them (hundreds of times a day) was toting, and burning 16,000 gallons of 200 million-year-old vegetable oil we purloined from Arabian earth to feed our ugly addiction to forty-fold the world-average quanta of consumption and creature comforts. (3) The Arabs, these terrorists, quite rationally think and righteously feel that we and they have been at war since we became openly allied with Israel, which is openly at war with them (most of the time). Accordingly, they feel just as morally justified in bombing us in New York as we felt justified in bombing Japan in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. By our Presidents own 911 proclamation, those who aide and abet our enemies are at war with us. (4) Behind the heroics of great warriors there is apt to be great love - of country, family, freedom and self. Behind the mask of the suicidal terrorist there is apt to be great suffering. (Theres also, Ive recently heard, the promise that Muslim suicide/martyr-warriors get to take the people they kill (all of them) into the next world as their personal slaves - this for those of you who, as I, have wondered how terrorists incentivize Arab youth to attend flight school abroad for a year when for graduation they get a one-way ticket to oblivion. Turns out it aint oblivion - its more like Club Med al la Allah.) But the point is, the ones who killed us were not cowards, but rather a few among many zealots all willing to pay the ultimate price for their cause, all of which shows that (5) We Americans have a lot to learn about the rest of the world and its suffering - especially the suffering we may have a hand in, and finally (6) While were seeking and setting out to destroy the ones who carved the course of history culminating in the events of 9/11/01, we had better be prepared to spy among these villains ourselves. Of course, this is just an opinion, and just like Michael Moore and Dennis Miller, I could be wrong. But while there a scintilla of a chance Im right , and while George W is out there searching for the road to what hes blithely hailing as the first war of the Twenty-first Century (is he promising us more?) , Im going to be out there searching for a road less traveled. So, now, as were treading in the darkness down the roads of our respective and collective choices in search of fugitive Peace, I invite - and beseech you - stand behind me , your friend , Dusty (Robert R. Schoch, Attorney/Writer/Environmentalist, 607 Overbrook Drive, High Point N.C. 27262 (336) 887-3119 e-mail : rschoch@triad.rr.com ) September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. About a week after 9/11. September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients rschoch@triad.rr.com September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. rschoch@triad.rr.com September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. oakenhamplantation@usa.net September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. 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September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. well, september 11 was a morning that i will never forget. it was the day that we here at Hardin-Simmons University were headed to the inaugeration of our new president Craig Turner. that morning i got a phone call from one of my friends down the hall and he said, "hey, terrorists just crashed a plane into the twin towers." i told him i thought he was joking and didn't give it a second thought. well, when i am walking through our lobby to got the the inaugeration i saw the collapse of the towers. my jaw dropped. i could not believe it. it just seemed like a dream. something that could not happen, like sort of we were invincable to this kind of violence. after that it did not really hit me that hard because i was in texas and that was in new york and it just seems so far away. also i did not know anyone who it affected so that just put it further away from me. also i thought, "don't dwell on it or it will take control of my daily actions." well, that is about it so guess i will go now. bye and god bless jay tippen September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 04-04-02 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Hello Everyone, I just wanted to thank everyone who reached out to me- either through private e-mails or the list- for your concerns and prayers. As I was finally able to convey remotely, I was not directly in harms way last Tuesday. Because I was to start teaching last Tuesday, I choose to drive in to the museum that morning. And as I typically do on such days, I waited till 9 AM to leave so to avoid sitting in traffic. I learned of the crashes as I left my home- literally seconds after the second impact- and watched the events unfold sitting where I could see both the TV and the unobstructed view of the two towers out my window. The twin towers are/were my main view from the front of the studio and many all night illustration sessions came to an end with the view of the sun rising from behind their cool blue silhouettes. Years earlier, I grew up as they did, watching the progress of their construction as I walked to school each day. Tuesday morning they looked as always like the twins they were. Only this time, there were each hemoraging deep black smoke. This vision- and the knowledge that many people were in pain as I watched helpless through my window- had a powerful effect on my psyche. Like all of you, I tried to make sense of the unthinkable. As the first tower began to stumble, I knew instantly what I was seeing. But I tried my hardest to find other reasons for the sudden expulsion of smoke and debre. The TV news announcers talked on- not yet noticing the new horror their studio was broadcasting out to the world. As the tower became engulfed, I moved to the window and prayed I was wrong. But after a moment- as the new anchor gasped "look at the monitor!"- I watched as the twirling shroud of smoke that surrounded the tower shifted in the wind and revealed blue sky. This sequence of events would be repeated almost exactly just one hour later. By the time the second tower fell, I found I could no longer think right. It was like I had a been struck between the eyes by a sword made of ice and my brain had gone numb. I noticed after a while that I was paying close attention to the news reports when the speaker came to the part of the sentence where they had to give this horror a name. I kept waiting for someone to give me the words within which I could frame the day's events. None succeeded. In the immediate aftermath of the collapse, the smoke rose in a column until it accumulated above the skyline. The mushroom shape was unmistakable. The image was borrow almost perfectly from a nightmare I witnessed in my dreams as a young boy growing up under the shadow of the cold war. Later I would learn that a boyhood buddy worked on the 105th floor of the first tower to be struck. He is missing and, from what I could see, never had a chance. As children, we conspired to form a band together. The fact that neither of us owned a single musical instrument was only a temporary impediment. For the whole school year we each put aside a quarter a week to buy ourselves a guitar or two. I never asked him if, years later, the guitar he was playing was partially financed by his lunch monies. Joe, myself, and a few mutual friends later became regular camping buddies through high school and college. We hiked waterfalls and sat around blazing fires playing music all night. During this time I discovered my connection to nature. And together we all shared this connection during these first forays into the world beyond our hometown. Later Joe went to work down at Wall St. (I now realize that it was probably his suggestion to squirrel away the milk money.) Over the last 20 years our worlds diverged and our paths rarely crossed. He was enormously successful and had worked up to title of senior VP in a major firm. But in the few times we met in recent years, it was clear that we hadn't changed all that much. I wish his family the best and know that his is only one story among thousands. Each more special than the last. Frank September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 9/17/01 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. fip@amnh.org September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Thank 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 email285.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. News From Suz Brockmann, Romance Writer SuzanneBrockmann@aol.com *** PO Box 5092, Wayland, MA 01778 www.suzannebrockmann.com 10/13/01 *********************************************************** It feels like at least a hundred years since I sent my last newsletter to you -- and yet it's only been a month. These past few weeks have seemed endlessly long, filled with grief and anger, frustration and sorrow, and no small amount of fear. But they've also marked the return of a remarkable unity among Americans, as well as an outpouring of love and support and friendship -- which has given birth to something really amazing. It's growing larger every day -- rising from that slash of raw earth in that field in Pennsylvania where the word "heroism" was redefined. It's there in the rebuilding of the Pentagon, in the scaffolding that marks new walls going up, in the American flag that hangs defiant. It's in the heart of every American from sea to shining sea -- and in the hearts of all of our peace-loving neighbors in a world that's grown a little smaller and a whole lot closer these past weeks. It's hope for the future, lifting right from the ashes of the World Trade Center, rising from the very middle of that place of devastation and death and maddeningly zealous destruction. The seeds of that hope were planted in all the phone calls home from the victims on those airplanes, and the victims in the Twin Towers who didn't make it out. When faced with such hatred, with an evil madness powerful enough to end so many lives, their response was one of LOVE. Those people who knew they were about to die called home. They called mothers and wives and husbands and children to tell them how much they loved them. In that face of that madness, their words were of LOVE. Imagine that. A hatred enough to cause exploding airplanes and tumbling buildings begat LOVE. And those phone calls were just the beginning. Firemen and police raced into buildings about to crumble, sacrificing their own lives to try to save others. Strangers carried strangers out to the street. People who might not have made eye contact just minutes earlier picked each other up off the ground and helped each other to safety. And here's something that those terrorists probably don't understand. When countered with love, hatred doesn't stand a chance. Yes, hatred seems to have triumphed on September 11th with so many innocent people lost to us forever. But for every loss, there were dozens of victories. For every victim, a dozen miraculous escapes, a dozen survivors. And like those survivors, covered with ash and dust, stumbling and dazed, leaning on one another for support and comfort, hope emerged from the darkness. Hope -- that it's finally time for this world of people of vastly different cultures and religions to learn to live in peace. Hope, born out of the truth that we're more alike than we are different. We all laugh and cry and protect our children and mourn our dead. And we all reach out to help one another in times of need. We all LOVE. Funny, isn't it, that it took Osama Bin Laden and those terrorists who follow his doctrine of bitter hatred to really drive that point home. But there's more than hope growing across America today. There's also steely determination. I can see that determination in the square-shouldered stance of the young soldiers who guard the army base not far from my house, weapons held at ready. I know that that determination is in the hearts of all the men and women of the U.S. Military and the FBI -- the men and women so like the ones I write about in my books. My characters are based on real life heroes and heroines. There ARE real men and women like Tom Paoletti, Stan Wolchonok, Sam Starrett and Alyssa Locke. And they're working hard -- right now -- to make sure that America remains the land of the free. And as for the rest of us, well, we've already learned that America is still the home of the brave. READER Q: This month's question comes from Natalie, who asked to be credited as being "Natalie Damschroder, author of Second Chance at Forever, now available at Echelon Press." (Fair enough. <g>) She wrote: "I just wanted to take a moment of your super-busy time to inquire if you know anything about the future of your upcoming releases. Specifically, the March book for Ivy. (Suz: That would be OUT OF CONTROL.) "I am most eager for Out of Control and am concerned that Ballantine will scrap publication of it. I don't know the premise but expect that it deals in some way with terrorism. (Suz: Yes, it does.) I very much hope they will continue as planned, both because I love your characters and need to find out what happens to them, but also because your books define the triumph of Us (American and the rest of the world) over Them (terrorists standing in for Evil), and may give your readers more of that triumph than we will ultimately get in real life. "Anyway, I'd love any info you can give, if indeed anything has yet been discussed. It may be too soon--I never claimed to be patient. :)" My reply to Natalie: OUT OF CONTROL is still set for a March 2002 pub date. Ballantine is not afraid of the contents of any of my books! LOL! I did discuss with my editor the fact that Osama Bin Laden's name appears in the prologue to OOC (he doesn't play a part in the book at all -- he's just mentioned there as an example of a terrorist who can afford to buy expensive weaponry!), and we agreed (at her suggestion) to take his name out. Coupla reasons -- back when I wrote the book, he was barely known (although I've had a file on him for years). Now everyone knows his name and will forever associate it with the WTC attack. Secondly, we are all hoping that by the time OOC comes out in March 2002, Bin Laden will no longer be a terrorist threat. But that's the only change we've made in the entire 620 manuscript pages long book. <g> (Yes, OOC is a very long book. I challenge you to read it in one night. LOL!) Everything else is exactly as I wrote it, prior to 9/11. As for the series: I have every intention to continue writing it according to my master plan. I outlined Sam and Alyssa's story a loooong time ago. What a bummer that would be if I didn't get to tell it! But don't worry -- my editor is as eager for S&A's story as the rest of you seem to be! Although, wouldn't it be nice if terrorism ceased to be a threat? Even though all my characters are counterterrorism experts, I would LOVE to see them all out of a job, wouldn't you? Don't worry -- I'd certainly find something else useful for them to do, to keep these books coming. I've got lots of stories to tell yet -- Mike, Jenk, Jazz, Sam & Alyssa, Max and Gina to name but a few! This series is definitely "to be continued..." That's all for now! Stay safe and fly your flag high! And remember the words of Dr. Martin Luther King: "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil--hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars--must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation." In the words of the Indigo Girls: "...turning off the light switch is their only power So we stand like spotlights in a mighty tower All for one and one for all Then we sing a common call: Let it be me! (This is not a fighting song) Let it be me! (Not a wrong for a wrong) Let it be me! If the world is night... Shine my life like a light!" Shine on! As usual, please post this newsletter wherever romance fans gather! Please forward it to friends, post on BB's and lists, and print out and post in your favorite bookstore! (Thanks again, from the bottom of my heart, for all your support!) Love, Suz Brockmann Upcoming release dates: OUT OF CONTROL, Ballantine, March 2002 PRINCE JOE, Mira, Tall, Dark & Dangerous #1, May 2002 HARVARD'S EDUCATION, Silhouette Reissue, Tall, Dark & Dangerous # 5, February 2002 Still in bookstores: OVER THE EDGE, Ivy Books, September 2001 THE UNSUNG HERO, Ivy (Voted RWA's #1 Favorite Book of the Year!) THE DEFIANT HERO, Ivy BODY GUARD, Fawcett (Winner of the RITA Award!) September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 10/14/01 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients (mailing list) September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. SuzanneBrockmann@aol.com September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. News from Suz: 10/13/01 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 email834.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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Hello all, Things certainly have changed dramatically since we spoke last night. The world is a different place today. I am safe and sound. We left Australia early. Every precaution is being taken to ensure the safety of the ships and crew. I am not permitted to say anything more than that right now. Please don't ask. The e-mail may be cut off again at any time, so please do not worry if you don't hear from me for a little bit. This is all for our security and is standard procedure when a terrorist attack has taken place against the U.S. We are watching it all on TV here. It is very emotional. I am looking on with deep sadness and intense anger. I want to again stress we are safe, and we will stay that way! Please let me know that Megan, Aunt Candy or anyone else who may have been in NYC is safe. They are telling us the e-mail should be up for a while, but we don't know how true that is. I will check it and send you all updates as much s possible. The line for this is very, very long right now. I was told I have a lot of mail waiting for me on the Peleliu. Thank you all so much. I should get it soon. I sent out letters to each of you. Mom and Dad, please forward the ones in your envelope to those I addressed them. I will be sending Australian postcards soon. I hope and pray all of you are well and not too worried. I love and miss each of you. Please forward this on to anyone I may have missed. I will be in contact again soon. I love you all. Love, Joe P.S. DON'T WORRY!!!! September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Sept 11, 2001 (ET) September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients Family September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. Joseph Chenelly September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. All is well as can be expected 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 email495.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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