225 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: As I walked into the bedroom, and listened to the news that morning of Sept. 11th 2001, like I do every morning. I was aghast....in shock! Could it be true? The first plane hit, and I seriously thought the air traffic controllers had misguided a plane, then the second plane hit, and instantly I knew something had gone wrong!! I immediately called my close friend who at one time lived in New York, and who still had family there. I said to her, "Are you watching the news?" Her answer was "NO". Then turn it on I said to her, a plane has just crashed into one of the Twin Towers. Even though I was far removed from New York City, it was as if I was there! i couldn't do anything that day, except glued to the news all day and all night, and I continued to watch the t.v. non-stop for the next few days! My belief was if terrorist could hit the Twin Towers in New York and no one stopped them, anything could happen any where in our country. This event has made us all more aware of our land that we love America, and even though others have tried to destroy us --it has united us....United we stand!!! 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 story4984.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. 156.42.68.3 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 JUST HIT THE FLOOR TO START MY COFFEE, WHEN I TURNED ON THE EARLY SHOW AND SAW BRYANT GUMBLE NOTICABLEY UPSET. I THEN SAW THE IMAGE OF THE PLANE HITTING THE TOWER AND THOUGHT IT WAS A NEW MOVIE....I LOOKED AGAIN AND REALIZED THIS WAS NO MOVIE AND BEGAN TO PANIC........I WASN'T SURE WERE THIS WAS HAPPENING AT..I WATCHED THE HORRIBLE IMAGES FOR QUITE AWHILE AND THEN I FORCED MYSELF TO GO TO WORK....THE WHOLE TIME I WAS DRIVING, I WAS LOOKING UP AT THE SKY, HOPING I WOULDN'T SEE A PLANE......TODAY 1 YEAR LATER AS I WRITE THIS, I WAS HEADING TO WORK THIS MORNING, AND COMING OFF MY HILL WHEN I SAW A BIG PLANE FLYING REALLY LOW..I THOUGHT AT FIRST IT WAS A FIRE PLANE, BECAUSE WE HAVE HAD LOTS OF FIRES THIS SUMMER, BUT WHEN I GOT OFF MY HILL, I LOOKED FOR THAT PLANE AND NEVER SAW IT......IT FRIGHTENED ME AND THE ONLY CONCLUSION I HAVE COME UP WITH, IS THAT GOD NEVER WANTS ME TO FORGET THE IMAGES OF 9-11-01.. I PRAY FOR PEACE NOT ONLY IN THE US OF A, BUT ALSO IN THE WORLD.........WE WILL NEVER FORGET............ 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I am a naturalized citizen having come from Zacatecas, Mexico in 1980.I love my home country, but also proud to be an American. After working for meager wages, I started my own business in 1983. Armed with drafting and architectural talents, I incorporated those abilities into ornamental fabrication and installation of wrought-iron products. I achieved a considerable measure of success but had to sell the business after a devastating injury and immobility for three years.I rebounded and started my current business. I've been successful enough to build my own building and that's where I was on September 11, beginning the day's work. Horrified and distraught over the dastardly acts, I envisioned America in a riveting caress of God,and I produced a painting entitled, "In God's Hands." It is a stirring piece of art and a lasting memory for me. It may be viewed at www.creationsbycinco.com 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 story1329.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 remember EVERYTHING about that entire day, down to the clothes I was wearing . I was sitting at home that morning, watching the news when they had a "special report" about a plane "accidentally" crashing into the World Trade Center. About 2-3 minutes later another plane crashed into WTC 2. I remember just screaming so loud that I woke my fiance up. He was pretty upset. I was crying and trying to tell him what I just saw on the t.v. I don't think he was awake enough to realize what I just said. I had to go to work that day, in downtown Chicago, just 2 blocks away from the Sears Tower. I remember calling my co-worker, telling her about what just happened, and being on the train, when most people starting screaming that "ANOTHER PLANE JUST HIT THE PENTAGON!!!!" Even on the train people were crying and screaming. I remember just thinking to myself "what am I doing????" YOu see, I was 6 1/2 months pregnant at the time. When I got off the train, I immediately went to a store to buy a radio that I could play at work. When I arrived at work, my co-working was trying to understand what I had told her when I called. I turned on the radio I just purchased and a little later found out that WTC 2 had crumbled to the ground. Just then, a customer came into the store I worked at, and acted totally oblivious to the morning's events. I started yelling at him."How can you be shopping at a time like this??? Do you not know what's going on??? Do you realize that we are being attacked??" He left. My regional manager called and gave the orders to close the store and " Get the Hell" out of the downtown area. I arrived home a short time later only to be bombarded with images of people falling to their death and the towers to come crashing down. Then I heard fighter jets flying overhead. I just remember thinking to myself that if I wasn't so far along in my pregnancy, I would have an abortion. I didn't want to bring a life into this crazy world. I didn't think we would be around for much longer. I was glued to that T.V. for the next few days, until my fiance said that was enough, I shouldn't be watching this in my pregnant state. I did have my child, a healthy boy, but he will never be able to live in the world that I lived in as a child. And I worry about what the future will hold for all of us as a nation. I wonder if he will ever be able to grow up. I wonder what questions he will ask me about that day and what I will tell him. 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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 sleeping in my bedroom when my friend's sister rushed in and woke me up. She wouldn't stop screaming. I walked groggily out into the living room. I saw the plane crash into the second tower. Cool Movie I thought...then I saw the the words CNN Live go across the screen. My jaw dropped and I fell to the floor. My Uncle was in New York on business that week, and I had no idea if he was ok. I sat and prayed for almost an hour, then picked up the phone and called my Aunt. She said he was fine. He had taken a train out of Manhattan earlier that morning. My family was one of the lucky few to have him returned home safely, and we know that. But I still grieve for those who were lost. I did not know any of them personally, but they were my brothers and sisters. They were all Americans. Now it is one year later, and I remember it like it was yesterday. Those towers crashing...They might've won that battle, but we will win the war. I saw something that touched my heart today...a comic strip in today's paper. It was a comic strip written in a childs shaky hand saying "God, please don't let any child grow up without a mommy or daddy again." I think that says it all. September 11, 2002 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story5562.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: Sitting at my desk, doing data security I watched the news of 9/11 unfold on the internet. I was shocked and saddeded for many reasons. Scared for our nation and saddened for those who had lost and were losing their lives. My father was in ill health at the time and I wondered how he felt as he'd served proudly in WW2. He always said, "I just don't know what to think of the world today"...he was 83 and he died the following Feb. I found myself alone after work on 9/11 and not able to share my saddness w/anyone. I like millions of others, went about "business a usual" as best I could. Today, one yr. later, I'm even more saddened listening to the the survivors stories and am again - alone. I find inspiration in the stories as well and have decided to continue to rely upon my own comfort and draw peace from my inner soul as I wish for peace in the world. D.R.Gumbert 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 story3568.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: My story isn't one about getting physically hurt. Infact I was far away from the attacks at the Trade Center and Pentagon, yet near the flight in Somerset County PA. I was sitting at a computer typing up the nights assignments in english class at the computer lab. About half way into the class an announcement came on. It was the sound of our scared principle Dr. Martin. She informed us on any information she could give us and at that time thought the Pentagon had been bombed, not crashed into. In every class jaws were dropped and eyes were staring at the horific pictures showing on our TV's. No one knew quite what was happening,everyone was scared,worried,and anxious to go home. Our eyes were glued on the t.v for a little while after. Nothing was kept from us. We knew right away it had been an act of terror and hate. We couldn't believe it. We always thought living in America would be this perfect wonderful free country, but when the events of 9/11 happened no one knew or believed in anything. A few weeks passed and my friends, everyone around us, and myself had started going on with our lives. It's no exactly one year later as I type this. It was a terrible misfortune that happened and will surely never be forgotten. 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 story3777.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. 12.226.59.140 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 had just got my two daughters on the school bus, after getting on them for running late. I grabbed my 1 year old son and headed to my Grandmothers, we were going shopping. When I had walked into her house and she told me a plane just flew into the World Trade Center in New York, we didn't know yet if it was an accident or intentional. When we sat and watched the tv to see what they had said, we saw the second plane, all I could do was hold my son. Then finding out that another plane had crashed into the Pentegon. I don't know if I was in shock or what, we continued on to the store, did our shopping then came on home. Getting back home I turned on the tv and they were showing the attacks, I just broke down crying, so scared that this could happen in my country. And yet so thankful that I have my family, my children and my husband. Over the past year my husband and I have talked so much about what has happened. We are not going to run scared in our own home, town or country. No matter what happens I feel safe living in America and very Proud to be an American. My heart goes out to all the people and their familes who parished in the September 11th attacks, and to all the Firefighters, Policemen and volunteers who put all their time, efforts and hearts into helping and trying to find survivors after the September 11th attacks. GOD BLESS YOU ALL. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story5663.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. 205.188.209.38 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: Like so many other people, when I heard about the first plane I thought it was an accident. When the second plane hit, I thought the news service made a mistake and reported the same incident twice. "What? Now they say the Pentagon? Well, was it the Pentagon or the World Trade Center," I wondered. It was incredulous that it could have been both. Stunned to hear the truth, we gathered into a conference room to watch the tragedy unfold. I lived in Michigan, so far away, and I didn't know anyone in New York or Washington, or in that Pennsylvania field, but I was grief stricken. I remember kneeling and sobbing alone in front of my TV until I thought I would vomit. I prayed for the rescue workers knowing that if I felt like this, they were grieving so much more deeply. I was so far away from New York and Washington, DC, I questioned why it affected me so profoundly, it didn't really happen to me... But yes it did. It happened to us all. A year later, when I see a slide show and even as I write this... I cry. My tears are proof that I have not healed completely, but how do we heal from something like this? Still, I have faith that we will heal, because even deep wounds heal eventually even if they scar. Out of the scarred earth, will come memorials to the dead, to the ones they left behind, and to the public servants who endured months of combing the rubble. Out of our scarred hearts has already sprung a deeper respect and love for our country and a new realization that we must have the strength and comfort of our God and the hope for new life that He brings. For me, September 11 will always be a day of bitter sadness mixed with a sweet hope for the future. 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 story3528.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I am an attorney. I was in my partner's office receiving a rather spirited criticism of a brief I had written. Upon completing that less than rewarding conversation, I returned to my own office. Seconds later, my telephone rang and it was the same partner: "Maggie! Get in here." I thought to myself, "Great. Round two." and went to his office. He is a big man and was standing by his windows which offered a panoramic view of lower Manhattan. He stretched his arms out and bellowed, "Where was I supposed to be today." I told him I had no idea and he pointed out the window. I saw the North Tower on fire, smoke billowing out. Instantly ill at what I'd seen, I turned to him and said, "Well, I guess God really loves you, doesn't he?" My boss responded, "Sort of puts that brief into perspective." I couldn't look at the towers anymore for the moment. I was having difficulty understanding what I cas seeing and returned to my own office again when someone called out, "There's another plane! They hit the other tower." I knew of course, as did so many others, that we were under attack. I immediately tried to reach my daughter, in college in Pennsylvania, and comforted myself knowing she was in a rural area of Pennsylvania and, so, I thought, out of harms way. The phones weren't working properly and I was unable to reach her for the next 2 1/2 hours. I heard then about the Pentagon and wondered how many there were and where they were and whether we could fight them and how we would do that and prepared myself to literally take up arms to defend the city. I called my husband and we determined to meet at an Irish bar on Lexington Avenue in the 50's and decide what to do next. There was no public transportation, but the buildings in midtown had all be evacuated and so, thousands and thousands of New Yorkers were in the street, walking calmly north, helping anyone who needed help and reassuring each other. I met my husband at the bar and noticed a huge television was on. I stood at the bar with an Arab woman who was furious and crying and apologizing. And with her was an Englishman, assuring her she'd done nothing to apologize for. And we discussed as a group where the best place was to go to give blood. And had a beer and assured each other we would stand together. I reached my daughter finally, alive and well and crying and exhalting that I was alive. And then I looked up at the giant TV screen in the bar and saw that the Taliban was having a news conference. I was immediately repulsed by their images and their denials of culpability and realized that, as they denied any involvement in the attacks, no one had asked them if they had been involved. And I spoke into one of those pregnant silences when one of them said they had nothing to do with the attack, "Who the hell asked you if you did it?" and the same realization that had struck me, a veteran of criminal defense work for many years, struck my compatriots in that bar and, as a group, we fingered the guilty parties. Finally, once Grand Central reopened, we made our way home and fell into an exhausted, fitful sleep. I awoke around 6 pm and turned to the brief that had started my day. I rewrote the brief, this time inspired by something inside me that said that the best way to honor those who had been through such hell that day was to work at my very best level and carry on the things that we do every single day that make us a great and loving people and so, at 10:30, tears streaming down my face the whole time, I produced an excellent work product and the last image I saw that day, having turned on the television after finishing my work, was the skeleton of the towers standing in the rubble and I knew then the ennormity of the attack on our country, on our way of life and on the city I cherish for its guts, its heart and its utterly unique strength and I thought of the Lady in the Harbor with that "Don't screw with me" look on her face and knew that we would make it through. We have done that. Ten fold. As a nation, as a state, as a city and each and every one of us, on an individual basis as we got to work every day and continue to build this outstanding tribute to human spirit and democracy that is America. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to share that day with history. 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 story3756.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: On September 11, 2001, at 6:30am, my husband and I left for Reston Hospital in Reston, Virginia for a day that was supposed to be one of the best days in our lives together. I was scheduled to have an 8:30am Cesarean Section for the birth of our second child. My doctor was running late so we didn't get in to the operating room until almost 9am. We still knew nothing at this point. However, I can vividly remember her making converstation with us as she was cutting in to me saying that she heard on the way in that a plane had flown in to the World Trade Center. It did not even register with me. All I could think of was "man what an accident, didn't the guy see the building, like how could he miss it"......It just didn't make sense to me. Our son, William Calvin, was born at 9:23am. It wasn't until I was in the recovery room that my husband told me of the whole tragedy. He came in and said that both Trade Centers had been hit and had fallen and that the Pentagon was also hit. All apparently the works of terrorists. My husband and I both worked at the Pentagon for several years. We met there in March of 1994. My father, a retired Army Colonel, still works there. Luckily, he was in the waiting room with the rest of the family awaiting the birth of his third grandchild. My husband, our families and I were torn. In disbelief about what we were seeing and hearing on every news station and trying to be excited about this new little life that entered this world on a day that will now forever go down in infamy. As our son's first birthday approaches we still mourn for all of those who lost family and friends, due to such grave acts, but we have to rejoice in the celebration of our son's life which began when so many lives ended. 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 story819.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 arrived to my office late that day, it was 8:55a.m. My phone was ringing, it was my boyfriend in New York. He works on Pine Street and his building is a few blocks from the Trade Center, with a window view of the Twin Towers. He was very upset, he told me a plane had just hit one of the towers, and he was very worried about his best friend who worked in that tower. He had to find out if Jimmy was ok, he told me he would call me back in a few minutes. He's next phone call was at about 9:00 a.m. He was pretty sure Jimmy was on his way down from the 25th floor and that he was hoping he was alright. As we were speaking, I heard yelling and screaming coming from the background of his office, as he told me that he was watching a second plane crash into the second tower. His building was shaking, people were screaming, his last words were," I'm outta here!!!!" I heard the phone hit his desk, and then silence. He was gone. I immediately tried to call back, busy. I tried his cell phone was seemed like a hundred times, busy. My best friend called when the first tower fell, I left work and went to her house waiting to hear from Alex. At 12:30p.m. he finally called. He amazingly made it home to CT. He drove over sidewalks, was the last vehicle over 2 bridges, before they were shut down. He was ok. But it would be almost 5:00pm that night before he would hear that Jimmy was ok. Because he worked on Wallstreet, and in the financial industry, he lost at least a dozen, friends and business asssociates. Some he had known for almost 20 years. God Bless all who lost their lives that day. God Bless everyone of the Heros. Thank God, many more people didn't die. Let us never forget!!!! I know I never could. 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 story3680.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: James Nichols I was on my way down the hall because i was awoke by noises coming from the living room. then I look in the room and all i see is my brother, my mom, amd my dad. all of them were staring at the TV and i could not understand why. so i go out in the living room and the firist thing i see is a plane crashing in to a building. At the time I did not see the significance of the matter I only seen a plane go in to a section of a bulding that looked to be no bigger than 10 stories. then my parrents were talking about someone doing this on pourpose and just thinking about how many people could of died. By that point I was thinking how many people could possably die. Then the camera zoomed out and i saw how big the bulging really was and then saw all the people running out of the building, then saw how big of a deal this really was.then I asked my dad "what Building is this" and he said those are the world trade centers and i said "what are the worold trade centers". Then he said very big buildings. and the way he said it I could he was in shalk.then I left late for school and when i got there my whole 4th grade class was glued to the TV and it pritty much stayed that way for the whole day and the next day there was a lot of rumor about when the next bombing would occur and if it would be worse and all I could say is I HOPE NOT..... 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 story20755.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 will always remember the day of September 11, 2001. I was in school and I heard people talk about New York and a plane crashing into the Statue of Liberty, and some of the teachers saying that this is the beginning of World War III, but what was really happening I could not tell because of the many different stories. When I came home that day, I turned on the TV. I didn't even had to flip through the chanels to find out about the attack because it was on every single chanel. Braking News. The Twinn Towers (not the Statue of Liberty) were falling apart. I could not believe my eyes, and I still could not believe that THIS was really happening. I called up every one member of my family to see if they knew what is happening. They told me that it was not only one crash, but 4. I needed a minute to calm down because it was unbelievable that somebody could do something like that. I came to the U.S. to escape war and now ... was I safe? Was anybody in the U.S. safe that day? I also heard that our Naval Base at Mayport (Jacksonville) was not safe. That day, and pretty much all week long, I got phonecalls from all over the World: From friends, family, and even people I met only once or twice when I was on vacation. That day brought US all closer together and it changed our lives together. Every day I pray for the many souls that were lost on 9/11/01 and for their friends and family who have to deal with the tragic loss of their loved ones. I hope that this day will never be forgotten, and that people always will remember not only our Loss, but to remember the Heroes that sacrificed their lives for our country, our home, our freedom. Remember: It's not U.S., it's them who will suffer. God Bless America!!! Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story3768.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: 911 days I am afraid to fly, afraid of being in tunneled trains, and afraid of murderous mail. I am afraid and disgusted, afraid of the familiar as well as the strange. I want to call 911 for help, solace an explanation or something but, it is business as usual, work is usual ?tho I get there later and later every day. I keep trying to figure out in the scheme of things what is important. Just exactly what is important, family, grandchildren, friends, health, poetic songs, and dancing feet and morning prayers. These things are important. On 911 day, I watched the slice and crumble of buildings and my mind could only handle little things, like the probable guys sweeping the floors in the towers and the coffee ladies and the messengers and the security guards glad for a job?and the panhandlers who picked the wrong place and unknown hero?s carrying strangers down stairs and people making cell phone calls to say goodbye. I thought of instant friendships blasted into eternity forever sharing life force energy and I wondered about last thoughts and last gestures and running feet and eyes too shocked to cry and buried subways cars filled with sandwiched people who suffocated underground. And I prayed that the dark was quick I wonder how many people did not want to go to work that day, got up hating their job or got up happy to be starting a new job or an old job in a new position, or were just happy to be getting up in the morning like I am?. My slow moving eyes watched in disbelief, blasted and sliced buildings and burning people on fire with death and wonder about family?s watching family dying and hoping not, hoping they got out in time. Hoping and hoping and? And I prayed that the dark came quick? My head full of cotton, my voice thick and the boss says, ?Do your job, we are a business? and clients calling to complain about services they want to be served and the world is burning and we have to leave the building in America uptown and the boss wants us to finish what we never started doing on 911 day. And I feel strangely detached from the man who is flirting with me from his throne a milk crate, fronting a dilapidated building. And I wonder about his universe being untouched, untroubled. I walked across America uptown, undisturbed looking for friends, friends who speak my language ?cause if this is it I want the wrap and tuck of love. I wanted the wrap and tuck of a little love, a big grand love is too much to think about, little is good enough on this 911 day. My head can only hold little things and not much of that. No wandering thoughts today, no irritating irritations. There is quiet, polite quietness is what is happening on the train and in the streets, people are being soft, well mannered generous, kind to one another. I cry unexpectedly now, quietly so, just sliding tears, and no one says anything. No one says anything. I share; share a newspaper with a stranger on the train who stops writing in his diary to read with me. And we are perfectly strange together. In the morning, the day after 911 and the first of my days of arriving late for work, we can?t find the Twins out the window of the flying train. And I don?t care about being late. I just want to hold my grandson? B. Lois Wadas NYC 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 story385.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. 2002-04-12 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 205.188.199.33 Annotation Annotations to this item. Victims NY:3 Feature Notes Notes about this item. Poetry 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 11, is a day I will never forget. I began the day as any other day, my parent dropped me off to school. I was in government class, we were discussing the Constitution, life,liberty, freedom and the persuit of happiness. Mr. Kamaza announced over the intercom a plane hit Tower One, in New York. I was not worried I assumed it was a small Cesna aircraft. We ended class and I went to Homeroom, he again began to make a second announcement and I knew it would be bad news. He stated a second plane had hit the second Tower. It was ironic that the day my government class was discussing the Constitution, our life and liberties were being challenged. I realized the first and then the second hits were not accidents but terroist attacks. I became worried not only for myself, but also for my parents. What if a plane crashed into the Cushing building I was in or into one of the buildings my parents were in? I was relieved when Homeroom was over and I could go outside where it was safe. During biology class Mr. Bradley turned on the radio and allowed us to listen as the events unfolded. I heard a noise and it reminded me of foil being crushed, it was the second tower falling to the ground. This is all I can remember of September 11, it was too painful and disturbing and I blocked out alot of what occured. I questioned God, why did so many Anericans have to die, the Federal Government's competence to protect us, and why would people kill so many to get their views and beliefs across? September 11 will be like what President Rosevelt said about Pearl Harbor, "will be a day that will live in infamy." 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 story7440.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. 2002-09-14 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 65.235.134.142 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: As I drove to work on September 11,2001 I heard over the radio a plane had flown in to the World Trade center. I will never forget saying to myself I am going to stop listening to this radio broadcast because the jokes they tell are not funny. Moments later I watched with disblief in a board room the towers collaspe. I felt anxious and I watched many began to cry. Later I watched listen the attacks across the country and I remember leaving my office with my heart pounding to get to my children. I just had to see them, hold them and know my husband and children were save. I remeber thanking God that my family was well. How selfish it may sound ; but it is an event like this that lets you know how blessed you are, how thankful you should be for one moment in time; for tommorrow is not promised. As I look at this day today I pray that the families that have lost a love one, can find the courage and strengeth they need to face tommorrow and forever until they meet thier love ones again. Where was I September 11th 2001, the same place I am September 11th 2002; Praying , with my family and thanking God for them... Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story5095.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was at home with my mother and we was watching the news and they were showing what happened to the World Trade Center and my mother was shocked.At the time I really did't know what as going on because I was only 9 years old.I wish that the things that happened didn't happen to some pepole. The way I feel now is that that is really sad. Then and why pepole would want to take pepole life like that. And if I could I would fixed everything and bring pepole children, wives, and Husband. 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 story20454.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 showed up to work as like a normal work day. My co-workers turned on the radio, we listened to music, then all of a sudden it hit. When the word was out on what those *&^%$#@! did, I wanted to be home with my family. I was both scared, but most of all, mad!! Just to think of all those little children that lost their lives and to those who were waiting for their Mothers and Fathers to come home from work, but, they never will. I thought about my kids. I can't imagine their faces if they new I or their Mom's would not return to them. It was also running through my mind later that night to find out that the people (?) in the middle east were celebrating our loss. All of a sudden now we are the bad guys. They say that we are killing innocent people. I want one person to tell me what crime all those people committed that were on those planes or in the World Trade Center. Being an American is no crime. It is an HONOR! And to all those people, friends and family of all the victims of the major crime that was committed against our Glorious country, our hearts cry out to all 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 story4781.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was in school, in the college bookstore, when I heard about the attack. This was at 10 in the morning and i had been in classes since 8:30 so I knew nothing about what was going on. I went in to the bookstore and there was a group of girls standing around a radio and they were crying. I asked them what was happening and they told me that planes had crashed in to the World Trade Centre towers, the Pentagon had been destroyed and there was another plane somewhere. The next five minutes are a blur because I was in a state of shock. I somehow made it downstairs to the pub where there were multiple televisions. Everyone was standing and watching CNN. To employ a well-known phrase, it was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. I sat down on the comfiest couch in the room, looked at the biggest TV screen in the place, and watched as the North Tower collapsed. I looked through the smoke, trying to make out the South Tower, and then realized that it too had collapsed. The TV then cut to a picture of the Pentagon ablaze, and I realized I had to get home. I returned to my house, embraced my near-hysterical mother, and watched CNN for the next 13 hours non-stop. 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 story1166.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. 2002-08-19 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 24.150.84.64 Annotation Annotations to this item. Television Coverage INTERNATIONAL