212 20 70359 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I woke up on September 11, 2001 thinking that it was just going to be another long, tormenting day at school. It was a blue day so I had my favorite class right after lunch: advanced ladies choral. I sat there with a group of young ladies preparing to sing and nothing more. Our teacher warmed us up with a few scales and then it happened; a lady with a face that looked entirely unfamiliar to me, walked in and took our teacher aside without any hesitation. I thought she was going to remind him that there was a fire-drill that afternoon but boy, was I wrong. Without informing us with what had happened, my teacher went to the large television screen infront of the classroom and turned to the news channel. The graphics were terrifying, I could not believe it. The questions ran through my mind left and right, "Who did this?, Why is this happening? How many are harmed?" I was striked when I heard that The Pentagon had also been hit. My aunt. In the minute I heard the news, photographic memories struck me like a lightening bult. My aunt worked in The Pentagon since 1996. I quickly grabbed my cell phone and called my aunt. She has stayed home that day due to sickness. It was quite an odd coincidence. Realizing how hurt and scared I was about my aunt, I can't imagine the pain and agony of those families that had lost someone. Being stuck in a small chorus room with 56 other girls was not comforting whatsoever. The entire room became utter chaos. No one was allowed to leave, circuits were busy and after a short notice no one was allowed to make any phone calls. I just wanted to go home and be with my family. I am now a part of America's history and though 9/11 was an entirely unfortunate event, I do believe it built our nation to become even stronger. 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 story11204.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2004-12-12 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 129.174.180.4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I remember I was at work - an auto dealership - when one of my co-workers ran in and told us "some idiot just flew his plane into the World Trade Center!". My face went white as I asked, "Terrorism?" My co-worker told me not to worry - "probably just some guy who doesn't know how to fly his twin-engine". How I wish... My boyfriend spent a year over in Iraq, and though he came home he has not been the same since. His brother heads over for his second tour tomorrow. My prayers are with all, every day - not just on 9/11. Always remember. 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 story20504.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: This Day will be one I will never,ever forget in my Life.I was at Home with my 6 Month old Daughter Angelina and was on the Phone with my Boss becasue I was advising her that I would not be able to make it in as my Baby wasn't feeling to good.At that moment my Boss received an E-Mail from our Office we have in New York advising that everyone was ok? My Boss didn't know what to make of that msg's and I told her I would turn on the TV.All I saw was a huge Plain flying into one of the Towers and told her what I had just witnessed and we both thought it was just a Pilot error and how horrible for the People on board. I contiued to watch TV to find out what happened.Nobody was realy sure at that point.Next thing I know the 2nd Tower was hit?????I started Taping the events as they unfolded and now have 24hrs (6 Tapes)of this horrible day to pass on to my Daughter one Day and hope she will pass it on to her Children. Today the pain in my Heart is as fresh as on that horrible,horrible Day and i know it will never,ever go away. What we can and should do as the American People is stand strong and tall and grow closer as a Nation and realize that the little thing such as color,Nationality,Religion,Sexual preference DO NOT matter we should stand up for our Country and our People no matter who they are. We are all American and that is something to be very proud about. God bless America and every single Soul in it. 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 story3420.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: It was an normal work day, untill the bad news came. I was working @ H&M - Utrecht in the Netherlands. Helping customers, when my floormanager came to tell the terrible news. Just could not believe what I was hearing. What was she talking about?!! Untill I came home and saw the images of the plane crashing into the towers. I just still can not understand, why? I can not imagine what it must be like. But I can tell you, my love goes out to them who must missed that one special person or people..and the departments who helped and reach out there hands to save them. And knowing they could die, and the ones who died for them. This week I saw the reconstruction documentary about 9 | 11 And yesterday, 9|11 after 5 yrs. It really hit me in the face... Cause it broke my heart to imagine what it must have been to be there and feeling so helpless. I really hope that it never never happen again.. But for who where there and did happend to. I'll pray 4 you. We Shall Never Forget!!! Love, Peace & Unity, The Lily Angel. 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 story20806.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2006-09-12 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 24.132.108.110 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: Putting on the morning coffee to brew and pouring my usual breakfast of a bowl of Cheerios that morning, I flipped on the kitchen radio to hear the morning news. My standard routine. Everything was suddenly so NOT routine. I knew immediately something big had happened, one of the WTC Towers was on fire, a plane had hit it?? I went into the living room and turned on the TV. I sat there, mouth haning open in wonderment, trying to figure out what in the world could have caused that plane to hit the tower?? My husband and our two daughters, 11 & 12, soon joined me in my wonder and confusion. Then the next one hit...... We all went on with our day, school for the girls, work for us....but a numbing haze of a day it was... Working in a very busy insurance claim office, our phones are constantly ringing. Not on that day. Who cared if their claim was paid, or if the paperwork was in. It all seemed so small and meaningless when compared to the ongoing tragedy playing out before our eyes and ears. Radios, computers, televisions, all blaring the same horrific message...America was under attack. Never before had our generation had to fear for their own national safety on our homeland. As my small family gathered around the dinner table that night, we all had a different look in our eyes..my children wondering "Why, Mommy?" "Are we safe, Mommy?" I just took their hands, and told them that we should be thankful that we were together, preparing to eat our dinner as family, when on the other side of the Country, and around the world, there were hundreds, thousands of families who would never again be able to sit down for their evening meal as one. Families permanently torn apart, forever broken. Please hold your family closer tonight. Smile at your neighbor. Help those in need. Never miss an opportunity to say, "I love you" or "I care." "Imagine all the people....." J. Lennon Just one Mom's memories. Thank you for reading. 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 story8097.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-23 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 168.103.94.10 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I remember that day as if it was only yesterday. It was a beautiful, sunny Tuesday Morning a day as I thought just another regular day - get up get ready for work, get my son ready for school ( that day for some reason he didn't want to get up so easily as he usually does), I brought him to school and off to work I went. Getting myself situated, turned on the computer, laughed with my fellow employees, got my coffee, turned on the radio and started to work and that was the calm before the storm shall I say. My fellow worker- listening to a New York Station - had said that a plane just hit the World Trade Center and I in disbelief said - it had to be a small plane - you can't miss those buildings and that's when my boss turned on the television to find out that another plane had hit the other tower - I just started to cry....How can that be - why would someone do such a tragic thing and injure and kill so many innocent people and then to find out the Pentagon was hit and a plane crashed in Pennsylvania - one that was headed for the White House - I was in shock. I did not lose anyone in those terrible attacks and I thank God for that - but I at that time was going through a personal crisis myself - I found out that night my father's cancer had spread and 2 days later in was in the hospital and never returned home again. I would go to the hospital and watch all the news with him everyday and hoped there would be more survivors and that everyone made it out ok -my father did the same- not knowing that a month later he would be there to join those who were lost on that tragic day in America - I can only hope he gets to shake all the hands of those heroes. September 11, 2001 - a day never to be forgotten! God Bless the USA!! Diane M. Welch 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 story5130.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: the events of september 11th 2001 still lurk in my head as if it were yesterday. i was at home, my 3 year old son and myself were asleep. my husband (who works at the pentagon) called me to let me know that a plane had hit the first tower. as i woke up just enough to go into the living room and turn on the television i was thrown into a state of confusion,shock and disbelief. i couldent believe what i was watching. as i sat there and watched i recieved the second phone call from my husband to inform me that the pentagon had been hit. thats when it really hit me. i was 4 months pregnant with our second child and all i could think about was my unborn child never knowing her father. as my son woke up and came to join me i just held him and cryed. that phone call from my husband was the last one i recieved and for hours upon hours all i could do was wonder if he was okay. my dad called me and we just sat on the phone and watched and waited. it was about 12 hours later my husband walked through our front door and i just lost it. i broke down and cryed in his arms. all the thing we take for granted every day. all the little things that are in no way importaint. i forgot all of thoes things on that day. i was glad to have my family and to know that my husband was alive. my heart hurts for all thoes who were not as lucky as i was. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was at school (10 grade) at Westlake High School when I got the tadgic news. Someone in the middle of the building called the attention to himself by blasting the radio telling about the tradgic event. Our school with a new administration did a very respectable thing by not letting our minds concieve the horrific events by telling us what happended and all the gruesome details but not turning the televisions on. I came home that day to find out that I had multiple family memebers around the area and even my dad about to take a photograph at or around the pentagon. Quincedently my mother was about to get airline tickets (when my family lived in New York) in the first Twin Towers bombing in 1992 (I think)but I got sick that day in 1st grade and it delayed the pick-up of the airline tickets because she had to pick me up and school and then get the tickets with me and that delayed her a couple hours. In those hours, the bombing took place and I feel that I had some part in saving her life that day if she was destined to become involved. For the next nine years of my life I dreamt about the Twin Towers of and on and whenever I did I woke up energetic and happy as if the Towers gave me a sense of comfort and security in a demented way. When I heard the horrible news, that sense of comfort was lost... as well as the numerous lives. Well anyway, my dad had the same sort of happening at the pentagon and had his photo-shoot delayed for some reason or another and didn't go. I don't know if it is a quicedence of a miracle or whatever, but that is my story that I will never forget. 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 story2632.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: September 11, 2002. A year has past. Today as I turned on the news. Pain. Anger. Sorrow filled my heart. Those horrible memories of the planes hitting the twin towers will never fade. Tears filled my eyes. I remembered that day, like it was yesterday. I couldn't believe what was happening. My heart skipped a beat. I did not see the first plane hit, however I did see the second hit. I witness that moment. It looked as if it was a scene taken out of horrible movie. I saw people jumping out of the building. It was horrible. It was just wait to die or jump out. I don't know what I would of done. I can't explain the feeling of being so hopeless. I wished I was there. I wanted to go and help. That day is forever engraved in my mind. I will never forget it. The day America really stood for their name. We became United. Never had I seen so many different people fight for the same cause. I can honestly say that I am proud to be an American. Patriatism and pride fill my soul. Those who died that day, will not be forgotten. May their families be blessed. May we remain united. 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 story5684.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 152.163.188.6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was at work in a large engineering/architecture office. One of our admin people said a plane had hit the World Trade Center and I immediately pictured that bi-plane that hit the Empire State Building years ago. I figured it was a minor incident. But people went next door to a doctor's office where there was a television and came back with the real story. I was in shock and couldn't bring myself to go watch on TV. I kept up my work . . .then people said "one of the towers came down" and I was really in shock. When I heard the other tower had come down I started to pray. The news about the Pentagon was also in the air. I can't remember when that news broke in our office. Mostly I kept working to keep my mind off what was happening. I logged onto the internet and the pope had an eloquent prayer on the Vatican's web site. I prayed harder. I had spoken with my wife on the phone a few times because she was watching it all on TV. I got home and hugged her and our little boy. She was pregnant then with another boy. What if it were them? What if it were me? As horrible as the day was, I was proud of how we all came together as Americans. 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 story6243.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-12 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 216.250.92.246 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: September 10th was a day just like all the others. A boring day at school followed by an equally boring day at work. I got home at 5, ate dinner, and got online to type away. My friends from all over the country couldn?t afford the long distance phone bill it would take to call each other and neither could I. Hence the wonderful world of AOL Instant Messenger. Me: Hey Matt, how are things up in the great city New York? Matt: Just great. My moms last day for work is tomorrow and we are about to go out and celebrate. Sorry, but I have to go. I?ll talk to you tomorrow. That was probably the shortest conversation I had ever had with him in the three years I?d known him. No one else was on so I signed off and went to bed. The next day I went off to school and had Health class with Mr. Ruark as usual. We all were watching Channel #1 when one of the other teachers came in and told Mr. Ruark to change the channel to CNN. Just as he changed the channel they had a replay of the first plane crashing into the World Trade Center. ?Oh my God,? I thought, ?Matt?s mom is in one of those buildings.? The rest of the day was just watching CNN and waiting for school to dismiss early. When I got home, my phone was ringing. I ran to pick it up before the answering machine kicked on. I got there just in time. ?Hello?? I asked dumbly wondering who would call at a time like this. ?Becky?? I heard Matt?s voice and knew something was wrong. ?What?s wrong honey?? ?Mom was in one of the buildings when the planes hit them. . . She didn?t make it out. I don?t know what I?m going to do.? ?Oh Matt. I am so sorry. I know you will be okay. You can make it through. I have faith in you.? ?I know. I have to stay strong for my brother. I just wanted to let you know what was happening. I don?t want to tie up the phone lines for too long. I?ll talk to you in a week or so.? ?Okay. I?m here if you need me.? I couldn?t believe it. I never thought someone I knew, even indirectly, would be hurt or killed in the building collapse. It was devestating over the next month to hear the change in Matt. He had to grow up and become a parent for his 8 year old brother. He was only 17. It was still too soon for him to have to settle down, but he never once complained because he didn?t want his brother to think he was a burden. 9-11 had such a major impact on so many lives and made me realize that live could be very short and we have to appreciate every moment we have. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: On the day of September 11th, 2001, a terrible thing happened and I remember that day clearly. My dad came into my room to wake me up and tell me to come downstairs. I didn't know why and I was too tired to guess. I stood at the bottom step of the stairs and stared at the TV with my jaw hanging to the bottem. I came down just in time to see the plane hit the second tower. I saw my mom stand up at go to the phone to call my sister at Stanford. Her close friend was attending school at Columbia in New York. Even though chances were that he wasn't there at the time, my mom couldn't help but worry. I watched for about half an hour after that and then left to go to my orthodontist appointment. The people working there even had thier TV on to a news channel. (which was EVERY channel at the time)After that I was dropped of at school I remember watching the news in every class. It took a while for the fact that thousands of innocent Americans had died in a matter of minutes to sink in. I will never forget that terrible day, and I'm sure no one else will either. 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 story8349.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was working at the time as a shipping and receiving clerk for a small chain of computer stores. I and several coworkers were working in the warehouse area, shooting the breeze and pulling orders at the start of the day. I had CDs playing because our musical tastes were too diverse to agree on any one radio station for very long. A little after 9 am, I believe it was, our delivery driver walked in looking a little stunned, and announced that a plane had just hit the World Trade Center. We were all very surprised, and I wondered whether it had been some awful accident or maybe a despondent pilot deciding to end it all. But really, with so much to do, it was only a momentary curiosity, and soon we were back to work. The driver walked in a second time, and said that *another* plane had hit the Towers. The warehouse manager immediately said it was some sort of act of terrorism, that this was no accident. And for it to have happened twice---I found myself agreeing with her. We finally turned on the radio, and shaken deejays were reporting this latest news, and in a few minutes, someone from up front where the offices were told us the company president had turned on the television in the conference room, and that we were free to watch. He was not a man to do such a thing lightly, and I knew it was worse than any of us had imagined. So we all went to the conference room, and just stared in shock at the smoke billowing out of the Twin Towers, and the endless replays of the planes hitting them, then the Pentagon footage, which we hadn't even been aware of, and ultimately, the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. We were all standing there still when the Towers began to fall, and what had been shock and disbelief transformed into grief and horror. Many people walked out then, unable to bear any more; but after a while they'd come back, needing to bear witness to history, compelled to watch their world change before their eyes. The day took on a surreal quality. Nobody left to go home for the day, but suddenly selling computers didn't seem quite so important. Some people sat in shock and sadness, overwhelmed by what they'd seen. Others threw wild speculations back and forth, wanting to know *how* this thing could have happened. It wasn't until later that it all started to make some sort of sense, and a whole nation rose in anger; in those first hours it was quiet, individual, overwhelming, and we were all doing all we could just to cope. When I finally went home for the day, I watched the news footage over and over; I downloaded video clips of angles not shown on television. I looked at photos and clips of the Towers as they had been, and the wounded landscape that was now reality. I couldn't take in the fact that something that had been a part of my life for so long was just---gone. And made gone not by some bizarre doing of our own but by the worst kind of terrorism. Gone, along with most of the people inside, and everyone in every one of those planes used to bring about its destruction. I couldn't comprehend it. Rich, poor, famous, ordinary, male, female, gay, straight, white, black---everybody, all dead, indiscriminately, just because someone objected to the way we do things. I finally fell asleep that night drained, soul weary, feeling a national vulnerability I'd never felt before, and suddenly acutely aware of America's place on the world stage. It's better now. I'm not afraid of some other random attack on those I love. We had, for a while, a fierce national pride; and while that has banked a bit over the last year, it's not gone, and is far higher than it was 366 days ago. And while I do take issue with some of our policy, I revel in the fact that I *can* take issue with it; and I can say, still, that I'm proud to be an American. 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 story4869.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: My brother was home with a back ache. My boyfriend and I had been up sick much of the night, fighting a cold and had just fallen to sleep when my mom called to tell me about the planes striking the towers. We turned the TV on and watched, shocked and horrified, trying to make sense of what had happened. A friend of mine was in the process of moving that day and I hurriedly called her and told her to get her still unpacked radio out to hear about what was going on. What I remember most about September 11 was the confusion. What was happening? Was there really a plane going up the river, heading for the White House? Were we about to be invaded? Who was behind this? When would the threat be over? And most importantly, WHY would anyone ever do such a thing? We've learned a lot of answers in the year since 9/11/01, but we're all still left with fears of travelling, fears of strangers, fears of the tall buildings we once marvelled at. And questions. So many more questions remain. But fear wasn't all we were left with. On 9/11, a divided nation began to pull together. We forgot about the messy election of just a few months before. We realized that life is precious and all too precarious. We were reminded to treasure our families, our friends, and our way of life. We stood up, together, as a nation, and exhibited a newfound patriotism and thirst for liberty. We became a proud nation again. Out of the ashes in NYC, out of the destruction at the Pentagon, out of the debris of courage in that Pennsylvania field came a nation forever changed. And I was changed too. I'm a better person than I used to be. I don't hide love and affection anymore. I show my appreciation. I say "thank you," "good job" and "I'm sorry." I don't take my life, nor the people in it, for granted. The American WWII generation became a shining example of American courage. On Dec. 12, 1941, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto said, "I fear that all we have done is to awaken a slumbering giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." The slumbering giant has been awakened again. It's in all of us, in that fierce need for justice, tolerance, and peace. They tried to scare me. They made me stubborn instead. They tried to kill us. But they only made us stronger. We will shine again. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I originally wrote this on September 12th, 2001. The day after the attacks. -------------- Not Just Another Day - by Patrick A. Gorman, Atlanta Georgia, September 12, 2001 As the song says, What a difference a day makes. Yesterday I remember dragging myself out of bed, looking forward to another wonderful day of dealing with customers. I got showered, dressed, and trudged to my pickup for the commute into work. I remember listening to the radio, hoping the music would help wake me up. Hundreds of miles to the north, thousands of people were doing the same thing, not knowing that it would be the last day of their lives. I had been at work for fifteen minutes when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. At first, I had no idea what had happened. I heard people several cubicles over talking in raised voices. I began to hear "Oh my God!" and "Have you heard?" We all turned on the news. Eighteen minutes after the first crash, the second plane hit. The news of what was happening spread like wildfire through the hallways of my office building. Everyone stayed glued to radios and televisions, spellbound and horrified as tragedy piled on top of tragedy. North Tower hit. South Tower hit. Then another plane plowed into the Pentagon. Government buildings everywhere evacuated, even the UN. And then, the ultimate tragedy: the World Trade Center collapsed with people still inside. Everyone in the office was stunned as we watched the secure lives we thought we had, crumbling into smoking ruins. Like the day Kennedy was shot, like the day the Challenger exploded, like the day of the Oklahoma City bombing, everyone is going to remember what they were doing when they heard about the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon: the worst terrorist attack in American history. Today I woke up to a different world. When my clock radio came on to wake me up, I didn't hear music; I heard footage from Bush's speech to the nation last night. As I got dressed, I listened to growing body counts. Hundreds dead in the Pentagon. Untold thousands in the World Trade Center, including over 300 firemen and policemen who were rushing to save lives, only to lose their own as the buildings caved in on top of them. When I got into my truck, the radio was giving the locations of drop-off centers for donations. As I drove to work, I studied my fellow commuters, something I'm sad to say I rarely do. Many of their faces showed the same numb horror that I was feeling. I'm sure a lot of them were probably listening to the same words I was hearing on the radio. And, like me, I know that many of them have friends or family who may or may not have survived yesterday. I can only imagine their stories, but I know that there are many just like them all over the country. In my rearview mirror I saw a young blond woman I named Wanda in the car behind me. Her eyes were red-rimmed and bruised from lack of sleep. I imagined her voice telling me her story. She moved here from Manhattan two years ago, and had many friends that still lived in that area. One of them worked at the WTC on the 80th floor. She had been trying to reach him all night, so far without success. A few miles further on, I saw an older man in the car to my right. He had a crisp salt and pepper mustache, and was balding. His name was Edward, and his son and daughter were both at the WTC the day before the attack. Ironically, his son was there to apply for a job. Thankfully, both son and daughter were fine. Ahead of me was Lisa. She was listening to the radio in tears as the number of dead firefighters was revealed. She didn't know anyone in New York, but her husband of less than a year was a fireman, too. She sobbed as she thought about all of the spouses of the firefighters and police in New York who are now widows - something she?s always prayed that she'd never be. But that seems like less of an impossibility now. Last night, she and her husband signed on to http://www.firehouse.com to make a donation to the families of those firefighters who lost their lives in the effort to save others. (this is a real website - check it out.) Further on, I saw Tim. Unlike many of us, he wasn't on his way to work. Tim's sister, Kate, was on Flight 175 out of Boston, heading to Los Angeles on business. Her flight was the second plane to crash into the WTC. With all flights grounded, he was forced to spend the night driving from Virginia to be with his grieving mother, who saw her daughter?s plane explode on live TV. On the sidewalk, I spied Roohi, a young Muslim woman walking to work. She walked in a daze, numb with shock over the violence that had been delivered upon the country she has called home for the last two years. Besides the senseless tragedy, she had an additional concern: fear that she and her husband would be targeted by those who would wrongly blame the Muslim religion for the attacks. As I turned onto Highway 9 in Alpharetta, the disk jockeys on one of the rock stations in Atlanta were chatting with their normally talkative traffic reporter, who had literally not said a word today except to do traffic. They asked him about it, and he broke into tears on the air. I got choked up too - again. That's been my state since this whole thing started. It's too much, just too much. This amount of death is incomprehensible to me. Around me, everywhere I look, everyone I talk to, all I hear about is the disaster. The news sites keep splashing photos of the second plane plowing into the WTC. My coworkers are stunned. My friends are horrified. Everywhere there's an underlying anger that vibrates in the background like the beginning of a dog's growl. What am I feeling? Despair. Grief for those who lost their lives. A need for justice, competing with a desire for blind vengeance that leaves me feeling ill. As I struggle to deal with the emotional fallout of this horrible disaster, I can only wonder, and fear, what the future may hold. But one thing is sure: our world just got a little darker. I think I?ll light a candle. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I have created a spiritual reteat center in the mountains of western Maryland. We do not have television and I rarely listen to the radio unless I am in the car. So, it took a member of our staff coming to work the morning of Sept. 11th to give me the news of what was happening in NYC, at the Pentagon and in a Pa. farmland area not far from the retreat center. At first, it was difficult to believe that such a penetration of the safe, secure atmosphere that we cherish in the USA had been penetrated. As the truth of it all began to sink it, it also became apparent that it would be important for the communities in which we live to gather together and speak about the tragedy, pray for all who were involved in any way, reflect upon the spiritual aspects of such a tragedy. Because I am a clergywoman, it seemed critical to begin to get the word out that such a gathering would happen that evening in the little town of Hancock- all who wished to come together would be welcomed. As it turned out, nearly all of our congregations held separate services that evening, and, by Friday night were gathering as a whole community, across faith traditions. It is one of the most important times that the citizenry has gathered. Our praying together, reflecting together, weeping together, covenantlng together will always be remembered as a moment of grace, a time of being connected to something much larger and more significant than anything we had, heretofor, experienced or imagined. Margee Iddings 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 story798.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: (We witnessed the entire event from our home in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia where I live and work.) We are US Citizens who live in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, where I run a computer business. We are about 14 hours ahead of Eastern Time, so we were just settling in for the evening of September 11. I was shutting down my computers and heading for bed. My wife, Dana, had just turned the TV on to see what was on the news before going to sleep. She called me into the living room. There on CNN was the image of one of the Towers burning, and the reporter explaining that a plane had hit the tower. At that point, the supposition was that some idiot had either accidentally flown his plane off course, or that it was some dramatic suicide. They had no idea of how big the plane was. After watching this for several minutes, we saw flame erupt from behind the wreck site. The announcer assumed that this was an explosion of fuel from the plane that we were watching burn. A few minutes later they received the report that another plane had in deed hit the second tower. I remember thinking right away that it was a terrorist attack, and wondering how long it would take for them to say it. It took the presenter a couple of minutes to get up the nerve, but he finally said that we were probably witnessing a terrorist attack. My family and I watched as the towers collapsed and as reports of the hit on the Pentagon and the downing of the plane in Pennsylvania came in. After my wife and daughter went off to bed a couple of hours later, my son and I stayed up all night watching reports come in and following what was happening "back home". Watching it from so far away made it seem kind of surreal and story like. I guess we were kind of insulated by the distance. I don't think the full impact of what we were seeing hit us like it did to people closer to the scene. The next morning I went out to the Mongolian countryside to visit some nomad friends. They had already heard about it and were full of shock, questions and condolences. They had a hard time even imagining a building that big. And the loss of life was staggering to them. It was amazing to me that the event had even touched the lives of a family of Mongol herdsmen who lived out in the mountains in a round white tent, tending their livestock all day. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Americans overseas Television Coverage INTERNATIONAL Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I have lived in Brooklyn for the past year and a half while going to John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Right before September 11 I was considering transferring back home to Georgia State or University of Georgia. On September 11 I was at home in Brooklyn, I didn't have class on Tuesdays that semester and usually I tried to get out and explore in the city on my days off. But that day I had slept in and not followed my original plan, which was to take a Bath and Body Works gift certificate and a Borders gift certificate to the World Trade Center mall. My mother almost called me that morning, she realized that if she had called and woken me up I would have most likely gotten up, gotten dressed, and gotten on with my day. After I woke up that morning, I got online. My friend Emily from Georgia instant-messenged me, asking if I had heard about the World Trade Center. I immediately thought it was a joke that somebody at a radio station in Georgia was doing. I got an email from an old acquaintance asking if I was all right. Emily told me to turn on the news, but I couldn't because the antennae of the networks had been knocked out. I got the news online and was horrified...I was pretty sure that I could smell smoke from across the river. I called my mother in Georgia at her job, but her boss told me that she and the other women who worked there had gone to our church to pray. I must be a New Yorker, I took the bombing of the city as a sign that the world was ending. My best friend was at that time at the University of Southern California. I called her and she told me that she and her sorority sisters were just waiting, that they were sure that the West Coast was next. We talked about why this was happening, and I told her that I wasn't sure but the news had said that an associate of Osama bin Laden (whose name I had never heard before that day) was to be sentenced at a courthouse in lower Manhattan that day, and that was probably the rationale behind this. My sister and some friends of ours were in high school, when they heard they panicked, my sister was hysterical. They don't know Brooklyn from Manhattan, all they heard was New York City. The principal of one of the high schools where my friends go refused to allow the televisions on, because the news was "disruptive" - not surprising, as the general consensus is that the man is a moron. I called my sister's school and left a message for her, I called everyone I knew when I was able to get a dial tone. I sent out mass emails to everyone whose email addresses I had. My roommate is a NYPD cadet, I tried calling her cell phone but of course it didn't go through. I left her messages, "I know you're ok, but please just let me know." I was worried that she would have to walk home if public transportation wasn't accessible. Once I managed to pick up CBS out of New Jersey, and turn on the AM radio, I was afraid to turn the news off. I sat on my couch and just watched, helplessly, all night long. I prayed to the CBS anchors to deliver me some better news. I don't watch CBS much anymore, I think my subconscious holds them responsible for being the messengers of devastation. I even made a "date" with an acquantaince I'm not that fond of to go give blood, but it didn't happen. For a while after September 11, I tried to read about it. But I felt sick every time. One night, very late, on one of the networks, I caught sight of some footage I had never seen of people aflame, jumping from the towers. It made me sob in despair, that people had been caught in that situation of futility. I volunteered at the Billy Graham Prayer Center a few times, but the Prayer Center left New York after a disappointing volume of calls. The people who needed it won't realize it for a while to come. After September 11, I was more determined to stay here and not to transfer schools. I still love the city. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I really don't have an exciting story to tell. I did not know anyone who was in any of the buildings, or planes, I do not know anyone who parished in the tragedy. I was at home with my best friend, Tammy , when we decided to see what was on our talk show before putting on cartoons for my 4 year old. When i turned on the t.v. we froze. We saw the smoke and wondered what was going on. We continued watching in horror as we found out what was happening, and then we watched the buildings fall. It was so devestating to watch, knowing so many must have lost their lives. Now the anniversary of this tragedgy has passed and even though I didn't know anyone who died, I couldn't watch to much t.v. that day, it was just to heartbreaking. I wish I had something inspirational to say to those who lost their loved ones, or to anyone who doesn't know how to feel or who to trust anymore, but all I can say is one day we will all be reunited with our lost loved ones, (I really believe that)and until then the good Lord will take care of us all, and if someone should try to harm us again, He will be there to take us home. 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 story7632.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I live in Rochester, NY and was working in Kansas City, KS at the time the attacks happened. It was ominous for the first few minutes after Tower 1 was hit, I couldn't believe what I saw on my first minutes surfing the web in the morning. I thought it was someone's sick joke. But then reality hit and I got angry. I then thought to myself and recanted that I flew through Ronald Reagan International exactly 24 hours earlier from when the Pentagon was hit. Then I got scared. As the week went on, it became abundantly clear that the airlines were shut down. This made things even more difficult since my Brother was to be married the Saturday following and I was the best man. Traveling became difficult as many of you know, I ended up taking a train home and spent many hours talking to many people about the tragedy that had happened and what our next action should be. I still to this day mourn the loss that we all have suffered, but I know that we as a Country will endure. God Bless America. By the way, I did make it home in time for the wedding. 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 story6227.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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