243 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 was no where near the Trade Center September 11. I was safely entering my business when the attack occured. When my business partner, Willard Smith, came running in, he announced what he had just heard on the radio-the Trade Center had been hit by a jet. At first we thought there must be some mistake--a horrible accident, and then the second tower was struck and we knew. I cannot speak for Willard, but for me, I felt like my life and the lives of everyone in this nation had changed in an instant. There was a deafening silence in the building. A hush, a whisper, from everyone walking the halls as if speaking in a normal tone of voice would somehow be irreverant. Strong compassion of humanity oozed amongst the ugliness of the reality. In Michigan people stood in line to contribute food, clothing, money and help in any way possible. Flags flying from buildings, car antenaes and homes lent us a constant reminder of our country and what it stands for. The early months were strong with patriotism, love for thy neigbor, and an outpouring of care, concern and pride. As the months passed, I noticed another change. We all settled back into our safe routines as we watched "the war on terrorism" discussed on the daily news. For me, I really wish that they would put a name to this war, because it would make it more real somehow. The war is safely tucked away in countries I had never heard of, but are now familar. I have asked myself how this war can be real when it's the people in these small countries who seem to be taking the brunt of it. My heart cries out for them. The real terror to me is the realization that they suffer on a daily basis while my life has seemed unaffected while they struggle to survive. When I look at the news and see the faces, they are the heroes, the survivors. They teach me lessons in strength and bravery. They have taught me to be thankful for what this country means to me. Now today is 9/11/02--one year after the attacks. It is all still there--the threats of continued violence and the threat of what can become if we forget for good. I am thankful and we are graced by the love of others who live lives of terror everyday of their lives. I thank God and country for what I have been given. My prayer is that we as Americans can forgive, but never forget, and that peace will come not only for us, but for those who are not American and live in the daily struggle to have home and family, freedom, and can share in the pursuit of happiness. 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 story4193.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 don't rise terribly early, so the news stories were pouring in from New York as I did my morning exercises. I kept the radio tuned to news as I drove for work. I saw the terrific traffic jam eastbound on Rt. 50 at George Mason Dr. at about the same time I realized that a plane had hit the Pentagon, too. I got on Glebe Rd. and headed south. As I crossed Columbia Pike, I looked east, and saw the clouds of smoke boiling up from the Pentagon. It took me an hour and a half to get to my job in Old Town Alexandria, and all the way, the heartrending news reports kept coming- II heard about the second plane in NYC, the towers collapsing, the fourth plane first possibly heading for DC, then missing, then reported crashed. I remember the feelings of frustrated anger and horror. Finally, I reached work. I remember looking up the river and seeing the smoke plume against the sky; then 2 F-15's shot overhead, and my spirits rose a bit. I did no work that day; instead, I answered frantic e-mails from my friends, inquiring after my safety, and sighed in relief as everyone I knew in DC or NYC checked in. There were a couple of close calls- people I knew who worked in the WTC, but had not gone to work that day; someone else who had been scheduled to move into that part of the Pentagon, but had been delayed. No-one I knew died or was hurt; and I think no-one I know lost anyone close to them. Thank the Gods. Eventually, one of my friends established an AIM chatroom so we could share news and comfort one another. I left work early and made my way home to hold my wife. The next day, I drove close to the Pentagon to reach work, and I remember the strong wood-smoke smell... I prayed then as I pray now, to the Gods I follow: may Justice, Mercy, Peace and Freedom prevail- may Justice be dealt to the ones who perpetrated this atrocity; may Mercy be granted to the dead, the hurt, the bereaved and the innocent; may Peace fall on the world; and may we not lose Freedom in this nation, in some futile bid for perfect safety. Biodh se. 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 story918.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: When I was at school I had know idea that it even happened and as soon as I got home all my t.v show were inturupted and for the rest of the night I watched the t.v and what happened it was very tragic and I hope anyone that had to do with the trade center axctent, I hope they are DEAD! 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 story8406.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. 2002-10-08 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 67.68.9.83 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 driving to work at 0700. I had not turned the radio or TV on yet that morning. I tuned my radio into the local radio station and caught the announcer saying "this next song will appropriate for what has happened" and he began to play Horror Movie by Sky Hooks. I wondered what he was talking about and listned to the song until the end when the news came on. The news reader began retelling the account of the events of September 11th. My immediate thought was "is it aprils fools day...they must be playing a joke!" When I arrived at work and saw the images of the planes crashing into the buildings I was horrified. I thought "my God what is this world coming to". I spent the rst of my day listening to the radio. When I got home all I could do was sit down and rewatch the video of the planes crashing and the buildings coming down. It was a very frightening time for me and my whole family. 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 story1413.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: La ma?ana que de septiembre sucedi? el 11 yo consegu?a lista para la escuela en mi apartamento. Mi padre estaba en la tienda del coche que consegu?a nuestro aceite cambiado en el coche. ?l lo miraba en la televisi?n y llamado me para decirme girar mi televisi?n. Tan pronto como descubriera, fui despertar a mi madre para que ella mire la televisi?n. Entr? a la escuela y en la mayor?a de mi televisi?n mirada las clases y no hice el trabajo de la escuela. Mi principal dijo a profesores dar vuelta apagado a la televisi?n y no necesitamos mirar qu? se encend?a. Pero, a la una de las escuelas medias la miraron y ten?an una ceremonia grande, mientras que los estudiantes de la High School secundaria tuvieron que dar vuelta apagado a las televisiones. Eso no me tuvo sentido porque entend?amos qu? iba en m?s que ellos lo hicimos. Tan pronto como consiguiera casero que d?a girara la televisi?n y mirara qu? entraba encendido en el mundo. Estaba en choque, c?mo podr?a ?ste suceder a nuestro pa?s. Asustaron a mi madre me dej? ir a la escuela el d?a siguiente y ella quisiera que permaneciera casero. Soy muy triste que ha sucedido todo el esto, pero estoy alegre que ha sucedido en mi tiempo de la vida as? que puedo decir a mis ni?os sobre ?l. Recordar? siempre 911 y nunca me olvidar? del terror que pas? a trav?s todos vive. 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 story7539.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. 2002-09-15 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 207.221.235.226 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 didn't hear about the attacks until around 10:30, in my English class. And my teacher turned on her radio and we listened to a news report. Most of us were shocked that something like this could actually happen. And I myself felt that it was immpossible. And I thought that if something like that could happen to a country as well off as this, then anything can happen 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 story2107.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. 2002-09-10 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 216.40.218.3 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 WAS AT HOME GETTING READY TO LEAVE FOR MY WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY. THE PHONE RANG AND IT WAS MY UNCLE, A FIREFIGHTER IN SOUTH BEND, HE ASKED ME TO TURN ON THE T.V. QUICK. I ASKED HIM WHY AND HE SAID THAT AN AIRPLANE JUST HIT THE TRADE TOWER IN NEW YORK. I TURNED ON THE T.V. I WAS DEEPLY SADDENED AND HAD A FEELING OF DISBELEIF ABOUT ALL THAT THEY WERE REPORTING. I COULDN'T WATCH T.V. FOR VEWRY LONG. I GOT READY AND I LEFT FOR MY STUDY. WHEN I GOT THERE EVERYONE WAS TALKING ABOUT TERRORISIM. THERE WERE OVER 400 WOMEN AT MY BIBLE STUDY AND WE PRAYED FOR OUR COUNTRY, OUR LEADERS AND FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE TWIN TOWERS. WE PRAYED FOR THEIR FAMILIES,FOR COURAGE AND STRENGTH TO GET THROUGH THIS AWFUL TRADGEDY. I WENT HOME AND WATCHED T.V. AND PRAYED AND CRIED THE REST OF THE DAY. TERRI 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 story6960.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: Well, where to begin? I was only ten years old at the time it had happened, and in the sixth grade at a new school. It was probably our fifth or sixth day of school, things were running smoothly so far. It was probably around maybe eleven ish AM, and a few kids had been called out of class to come home, one at a time but in what it seemed a ten minute or so time frame. Nothing bad happening never occured to me, I just figured a few people had to go home or whatnot. That's what one would normally think. But throughout the day, even more people got called out to go home, three at a time almost. We also were not allowed to play outside for recess, our principal saying "Something is wrong with the lawn." or something along those lines. It sounded silly, and things just got really strange. Throughout the day, everyone around me, including myself, could tell something was wrong. Of course, we where young and wouldnt know exactly what, but it was almost the feeling of a dark cloud. I finally found out some kinds of details by the end of the day. One boy in my class, one whom I was not fond of due to his rudeness, approached a group of his friends nearby. Practically laughing, he stated that the whole Pentagon had been blown up. It seemed as if he found it funny. But I didnt. My father worked at the Pentagon at that time. So naturally, I broke down into a small fit of rage, raising my voice telling him "NOT FUNNY you jerk! My dad works at the Pentagon!". That moment, his expression changed. I could not tell if it was sorrow, but I doubt it was that. But it definetly changed. I couldnt react at that time...but then I actually started to think "What if he's joking?" or "There cant be a bomb here that powerful. The Pentagon is huge." On the busride home, I couldnt move, I was silent, and the air around me felt so thick, because I was so shocked I couldnt breathe. I kept thinking only one word. Daddy. I ran home once I got off the bus. I was greeted by my mom, who hugged me and said "Your dad's okay." I felt so relieved. It turns out my dad was acutally on the opposite side of the building. He hugged me and my older brother, longer and more tight than he ever had. But later, he told me about the Twin Towers. He said it had been a terrorist attack. It just hit me almost square in the stomach. A chill went down my spine, I felt really scared and didnt want to leave the house or go outside. I didnt understand what the terrorist attack meant. However, I was scared of just..something happening again. I couldnt think of what would exactly, but just something. Although I did not experience it first hand, it was still a scare for me because of the fact it happened so close to home, my father working in the Pentagon,and how so many innocent people were killed so fast. I couldnt fully understand at the time why, what, how..but it was still a frightning experience. From that day forth, I cant help but look at the sky every once in a while 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 story20852.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 had just moved to Greentown, Pennsylvania from southern California the Friday before (September 7th), after a long and arduous 10-day trek across the country, that should have taken us only five days. Saturday the 8th we moved into the home we just bought, that I had never even seen before that day. Sunday the 9th we discovered my husband's car had been stolen from the secure parking lot at the Newark airport. Monday, the 10th, I had to call 911 at 8 am that morning and have my ailing 78-year-old mother rushed to the hospital (she was in congestive heart failure) in a town 50 miles away. We had moved to a state I was completely unfamiliar with, and I couldnt even begin to tell my husband how to find us at the hospital. Tuesday, September 11, 2001, I awoke to find our two of our four dogs had escaped into the forest surrounding our home... I called my husband in complete despair at work around 11 am... only to be told, "Margaret turn on the TV, the world has changed today..." I could not believe my eyes. I wondered if we had made the biggest mistake of our lives to move away from CA. My husband worked in Little Falls, NJ, just across the river from the World Trade Center Towers. As he drove into work that morning on highway 80, he could see smoke billowing from the north tower; and later as he watched from his own office in disbelief the 2nd plane hit the south tower , the 2nd tower imploded shortly thereafter, and finally he watched the 1st tower go down… The company had two people at the World Trade Center that morning (eight hours later they got word they were both okay). Then the F-15s began patrolling the airspace around his building (the tallest building in Little Falls, NJ) and everyone was terrified… I thought of my brother and nephew, a Fire Chief, now retired, and his son a fireman, and hoped if their departments sent them to assist, theyd be safe. I though his other son, a fighter pilot flying sorties around Washington, DC and prayed for his safety, too… Though we just barely moved in to our home in PA, that was the beginning of the end of our stay there. Twenty-one months later, due to political developments resulting from 9/11, my husbands company packed up and left the USA and we were homeless for a time. In the summer of 2003, when we finally had to leave the east coast, I went to ground zero to see for myself, what I could not bring myself to see… and I wept for all of the lost souls and their families. And the businesses and livelihoods so utterly destroyed. The years have brought us back to CA, and God has kept us safe and restored us to a home, but I ended up losing my mom and those two pups along the way… And every anniversary, I get sad when I remember those moments and the days leading up to them; and a tears fill my eyes once again for all of the senseless loss. I also despair over the fact that folks who werent right there will never truly understand how we could feel so deeply about this single event. Its the 5th anniversary, and weve decided that, Lord willing, we will move back east one last time in our retirement and stay there, in upstate New York until the end. I imagine it not unlike the Pearl Harbor survivors who feel drawn to the place even after all the destruction they witnessed or experienced. There is a bond for us now born out of what was meant for evil, but God used it for good, to show the world and other Americans how we could pull together if we needed to. We will return to New York one day to finish this journey. 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 story20711.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 my day off. My 13 year old son was home sick (his ear again) I was watching Good Morning America. When they moved to the first plane. It was my son who saw the next plane. I was so unreal, like watching a move..... After they said it was a attack my son wanted to get his older sister from school (the high school is a block away from us) My hart was in my throat. But I was tring to hear the whole story it was just to unreal to be true..... After the other 2 attacks I was thinking about family, how far away they are.. My son was going and getting food together water the cooler bags with clothing cat crates.. Then he told me we are going HOME after we had his sister.. Home is in Idaho. I explaned to him we just cant up and leave like that, cross country. The biggy no money to do it with... I had two people call me to pick up there kids for them.. The school had a 3 bomd threats. I did go get the kids from school and bring them home to my house.. The panic they had at the school.. To pray at school we did.. We came to my house had bolony sandwhichs home made cookies and milk and no tv radio and we praied hugs..... My flag went up that day I didnt have a pole but we used a broome sick. It has been that way from 9-11-01...... family is more than blood.. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: It was about 9:00 a.m. when my wife woke me up saying you need to try and get a hold of your sister and I was like why what?s wrong. My sister is a stewardess for American Airlines but anyway I was like why what?s wrong and my wife said there is highjackers highjacking planes right now and they have several planes. Well we just moved out in the country and we did not have TV yet so I turned on the radio to listen and of course it was all over the radio I ran to the phone to call my mom to see if she heard from my sister I knew she was in Boston already that morning from a flight the previous night and she said no I am trying to call the airlines right now. After hours of both of us calling my sister finally called from her cell phone and thank God she was alright. She was stranded in Boston for about 4 days and me and my wife went to friends to watch TV in horror all day long. We got there as the first tower fell and we all stood dumbfounded not believing this could ever happen. I served 3 years in our military and this made me wish I was still serving to get some kind of revenge. We kept the kids in another room while we watched it all unfold to out disbelief. I hope and pray that this day will never happen again. It bothers me that people think they are heroes killing innocent people. Anyone can kill anyone without them knowing those cowards and that is exactly what they are cowards. my school was cancelled that day just like everything else was cancelled that day. I still believe the world stood still that day not just America but the whole world. Thank god we have a president that is not afraid to go after the enemy and have justice be served on them from us and from god. We just have to stay strong and united and rally around our country. Thanks Lowell 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 story9395.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: Five years later I can still remember everything as if it was today. I still worry that an attack of this magnitude or worse will happen again. I worry about my children's future even more now than before the attacks. I was watching the tributes this morning on CNN.com and everything is still so fresh. Reliving the events that transpired that day do not get any easier to watch no matter how many times you have seen it. The fear in people's eyes, the tears, the crying and screaming, still sends chills down my spine. THey say homeland security is better than ever now. I dont have much faith in those words. My thoughts are they did it once they will do it again. THey got under our radar and got in here to cause their pain and damage they will do it again. Maybe not very soon but it will happen. We will let our guard down again and it will happen. THe pain of that day is still so fresh. The coverage of the days events is still so hard to watch. I wouldnt get on a plane if my life depended on it. I dont want to be in those passengers shoes ever. The people who did it are still out there, some have been captured or killed but there are still followers and believers who can carry on. One days acts have cost so many American lives not just that day but in many days to follow. We have lost American soldiers in the war. All over some one trying to make a point to the USA. Their point was made and will forever be engraved at the sites that the planes crashed, in the lives of the families affected and in history books. The families who lost loved ones are still in my heart and in hearts across the nation. I just hope that they may someday be able to move on from the tragedy and know that their family members are safe in God's arms!! God Bless the USA!!! 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 story20605.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 out there working on a jet with my nightshift co-workers when the pro-sup came up to us and told us to watch out for any suspicious acitivity becasuse the world trade center has just been struck by a plane and they think it's linked to a terrorist act. as we came in to the office the TV was on and everyone sat in silence watching just as a couple of seconds passed a second plane struck, my eye could not beleive what was going on. as soon as i got off work i whent home and called my whole family all over to see what was going on and if everyone was ok. after a while they declared that it was bin laden i got so mad because i could'nt do anything over here for NY. 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 story1856.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 is an account I wrote two days after the attack. Alone. It describes my experience of the World Trade Center attack. I was alone from the moment the first plane hit One World Trade Center until I ran out of the building a mere minute before its collapse. Here?s my experience: I don?t work in the Trade towers but for the past six weeks I?ve been temping for an insurance firm, Marsh, that has offices both in midtown Manhattan and One World Trade Center. Until Tuesday morning I had never been to the Trade Center office because my job was in midtown. The Friday and Monday before the attack I ended up working with a managing director of the company on a report for a meeting she was presenting at in the World Trade Center on Tuesday. Her assistant was out sick, and I was pulled from my regular job to help her out. The report still needed a lot of work, and I had to rush to get it finished and produced before Tuesday morning. Most of it was finished by Monday afternoon, and it was shipped down to the World Trade Center office. A small part of it wasn?t finished until the evening, and I couldn?t be sure that we could get it shipped in time for the morning meeting, so I told my boss that I would come in early on Tuesday morning to the midtown office and bring it down to the meeting. And that?s exactly what I did. After going to midtown office Tuesday morning I went downtown with the last parts of the report to deliver them to the 99th floor. I arrived there around 8:40 a.m. and helped my boss get the reports arranged for a few minutes and asked if she needed anything else. She said no and sent me on my way back to the midtown office. I took the elevator down to the 78th floor, where I had to switch to the express elevator that takes you to the ground floor. I caught one right away. People poured out of the elevator, but no one else got on because everyone was going to work, not leaving like myself. I was all alone as I took the elevator down. Being all alone in the elevator, I did some of the silly things you do. I jumped into the air to see if I would get that ?light? feeling, and I started singing to myself--?I am, I Don Quixote? from ?Man of La Mancha.? I had stopped fooling around by the time I neared the lobby and the elevator slowed and already read that it was at the first floor. At this moment there was a violent shaking of the elevator, and it lurched to a stop. A few light fixtures fell and hung by wires, but the power stayed on. A fine dust was pushed into the elevator by this huge whoosh of air, so I ripped off my shirt and wrapped it around my head to breathe. I immediately rang the emergency button and waited. The only voice I heard was a computer voice repeated over and over and over--?Your call has been received; someone will be with you shortly.? After a quarter of an hour, a real but squawky voice that I had trouble understanding rang through the small speaker. He would only inform me that it was ?an emergency situation? and that I should remain calm--help would be there soon. He asked how many were in the elevator with me, and I told him I was all alone. In another five minutes or so there was another shaking of the elevator, not nearly as violent as the first, and just a small amount of dust. I could faintly hear sirens from the outside, and I could barely hear people yelling, but I still had no clue what had happened. Of course I suspected a bomb, but in reality I had no way of knowing. I have a numeric pager but no cell phone. The pager kept going off, letting me know that I had messages in my voice mail. I felt the need to do something, so of course I tried to pry open the elevator doors. There were actually doors on both sides of the elevator, and I tried to open them both. The power was on, and it was holding the doors shut. I could only sit and wait. About an hour after of being trapped came the next big shaking. It was more violent than the first, and more dust was pumped into the elevator as well. It became harder to breathe, and the shirt wasn?t keeping as much out. I tried to get someone to respond to my calls for help, but no one would. Now the computer voice just kept repeating its message over and over again, and I couldn?t make it stop. Another 20 minutes passed, and finally the power went out in the elevator. The emergency lights kicked in. The call button no longer worked. There was an alarm button that would make a ringing sound when I pushed it, and I started ringing in a recognizable pattern like three-one-three and ?shave and a haircut? in the hope that someone might differentiate it from the other alarms going off, but there was no response. After five minutes, in frustration, I tried the doors again, and to my amazement the first one I tried slid open. The power being off seems to have released the doors, but I am faced with a steel wall. I close the door because only the doors have kept so much dust from coming in. I go to the other door and it slides open to reveal a deserted, dust- and debris-covered lobby. I had been there the whole time, and no one had come. I don?t see a single person around, and I start running to one side when I see two firefighters standing in a large, blown-out window. I yell out for help, and they signal me over. I run to them, and one of them grabs me and begins to walk me out. I look up at the tower when we are a few yards away, and I see the flames and smoke from the top. As I look to my right I see a mass of debris, which at the time I assume is one of the smaller buildings which must have suffered a blast. Only later do I realize that it was the rubble of the other tower. I still have no clue about anything that has happened--not the planes and not the collapse of the other tower. The firefighter keeps leading me away, and we get about half a block from the building at the corner of Vesey and West. I start to hear a rumble, and then a push from the firefighter, who yells ?Run.? I run on Vesey toward the water but look over my shoulder to see the building collapsing behind me. A great cloud of dust steams toward me, but as I get to the water it has retreated, as the wind was blowing it the other way. I collapse onto a bench and begin to break down. A couple of rescue workers come over and try to get me breathing normally and quickly encourage me to walk north along the water, away from the towers. When I?m breathing more normally they let me go, and I join the massive crowd of people that is moving north, but I don?t know exactly where I?m going. As I walked in a state of shock, I picked up small bits of information from people walking around me. The plane hitting the first tower and then the second. The collapse of the South Tower and finally the North. I wanted to talk to them, but I couldn?t find words to speak. I just walked. First along the river and eventually into the heart of the city. At 10th Street I turned east and walked towards Sixth Avenue. I walked up Sixth Avenue until I got to Bryant Park at 40th Street. There the tents for the fashion show were set up, and as I walked past, a security guard emerged, yelling for everyone to get away from the park. People began to panic and scamper. I ran across 40th Street until I got to Fifth Avenue and continued north. I still don?t why we were told to run. I assume it was a bomb threat. I continued up Fifth until I got to 45th Street and walked back to Sixth Avenue to go into my building. They already had signs up for people who were Marsh employees from the Trade Center to go to the 35th floor, but I went to the 42nd where I work. The receptionist, whom I had talked to just hours before from the 99th floor of the Trade Center, looked at me in disbelief. A few people were gathered around, and as they asked me how I was I began to break down, and they took me to the 35th floor for the company nurse to look after me. I don?t have a scratch on my body. The only mark I have is a slight bruise on my right arm where the firefighter grabbed me. The elevator trapped me, but it also protected me, and then by a miracle it released me. I was almost certainly one of the last people to get out alive before the collapse. I didn?t see anyone else as I came out. The thought of those people I know who were on the 99th floor for the meeting plagues me. I?m probably the only person who was on that floor to get out alive. They are all officially ?missing.? My family is almost all in North Carolina, and my brothers are driving up here to get me. I have had the most amazing support from my friends and my cousin and her husband. They have all looked after me 24/7 for the past few days. Now I?m never alone. I?ve never had a worse day in my life, but I also have felt more love from family and friends than I could ever imagine. The images and memories are haunting me, and the scars are very deep at the moment. I?m not always able to keep it together emotionally. But despite the horror of it all, there is a feeling of great hope inside me. I must be around for some reason, and I certainly intend to find out. 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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 following is an e-mail that I wrote on Friday, September 14, 2001. Subject: close call To everyone who I have not yet spoken to, thank-you for your calls and e-mails. I have lost my voice, so I am unable to call y'all back. I am o.k. and a little shaken up, even after a couple of days. unfortunately, i was right outside of the wtc when it happened. i was on a subway with my girlfriend heading downtown when the planes hit the towers, and had no idea what had happened. the subway operator broadcast over the loudspeaker that the train was being re-routed due to police activity at one of the downtown stations. we changed trains to get closer to her new apartment which is on nassau street, which is 2 blocks from the wtc. when we got out of the subway, we saw a bunch of people milling around and thought that there was a bomb threat at one of the downtown government buildings. then we looked up and saw that one of the wtc towers was on fire. i didn't think much of it, since i was in la when the first interstate tower caught fire and it looked the same. then as we continued to walk south, we noticed that the other tower was on fire and wondered how the fire had jumpted from one to the other. then we saw the gaping holes in the sides of the buildings and were shocked. we figured that that they had been bombed or hit by rockets or something like that. we continued to walk south, while the police started to clear the area. at this time we were one block from her apartment. the police wouldn't let us go any further, so we started argueing with them that we lived only a block away. instead we ducked down an alley that runs parallel to broadway, thinking that we outwitted the police and continued on our way to her apartment. thats when we heard a high pitched sound that started getting louder and closer, the ground started to tremble and the noise became much deeper. we thought that it was a rocket/scud missile and that we were being bombed. at this point we still didn't know about the planes. it was very scary, people were running everywhere, it was the worse panick situation that i have ever experienced, far worse than earthquakes or the la riots. at this time we looked behind us and saw a huge cloud of ash and smoke coming at us in 2 directions. we weren't sure whether we should run or duck and cover. so we started to run, but the cloud was coming very fast and we didn't know what had happened. if it was a bomb, where did it come from, where did it hit. we continued to run up one street and could see the cloud in front of us and so we turned a different direction and the cloud was both behind us and to the side. then as we turned again, there was a patch of blue sky so we ran towards it, hoping and thinking that it was towards the east river. we kept running till we reached the brooklyn bridge. fortunately, we managed to outrun the cloud but had no idea what had happened. we walked up the fdr and occasionally looked back. you could only see one of the towers. as we kept walking i turned around again and only saw a cloud of smoke. cell phones weren't working and rumors were rampant. no one really knew what was happening. we walked up the fdr to my office to use the bathrooms, phones and watch the news. after that we walked to my girlfriends old apartment at 100 st and cpw, she hadn't fully moved out of it yet. it was basically an 8 mile walk to get home. when we finally turned on the news at 4:00pm and watched the replay of the towers coming down, it dawned on us that the cloud we outran was full of glass. if we had ducked and covered instead of running, we could of been cut to shreds. wow! the next day, we went back downtown, to survey the damage and get a couple of things from her apartment. she has asthma, so we needed to get her respirator. we had a very difficult time getting into the area, since my girlfriend is in the process of moving downtown, she has no i.d. with that address on it. she works in tribeca, so we managed to get past the first 2 checkpoints by showing her business card and saying that it was a work/live loft. after that we walked made it past a couple of other checkpoints by saying that we were heading to the downtown hospital to get her a new inhaler, which was true. once we reached the national guard checkpoint, they informed us that this was a federal bio-hazard quarantine area and that no one was allowed to go any further. since we needed to get to the hospital, the national guard said that nypd may be able to escort us there. while we were speaking to the nypd a convoy of construction equipment, bulldozers, steam shovels and dump trucks drove past us, kicking up huge clouds of dust. even breathing through filtering masks we started coughing, my girlfriend had an ashtma attack and her inhaler was virtually empty. the nypd officer got his personal car and drove us to the hospital. she was given an ashtma treatment and is fine. from the hospital, we were escorted by national guardsmen the last two blocks to her new apartment. the whole area is covered with 3-4 inches of ash, windows are broken and rubble is everywhere. all of the fire hydrants were open to try to keep the dust down. it felt like a twilight zone episode, very surreal and unbelievable. when we were downtown, we met a couple of people who live in the area and their building has a roofdeck. we went up to the deck and could see right into the area where the wtc use to be. we saw the corner of the north tower that is still standing, very eery and 7 wtc completely flat and laying on its side across the street. there were countless firemen and trucks spraying water all over the place trying to get the fires under control. the smoke and dust was very thick, you really needed the filtering masks. yesterday, i could only take the subway to 42nd street, unfortunately with the office at 24th, it wasn't close enough. i had finally had enough, instead of going to work i called the gym and scheduled a massage. it made a huge difference and i feel alot better. today i'm in the office, and it's not quite business as usual, but there are a lot of people here. i hope that you are well and that everyone you know in ny is accounted for. Thank-you, andy 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 story394.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Move to emails Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: It was a beautiful day in Philadelphia, PA. At around 9:00 a co-worker called me and told me that a plane hit one of the World Trade Center towers. Thinking that it must have been some sort of private plane accident I went to the CNN site on the Internet. At that point it seemed that everyone around me was aware that something happened and we all tuned in to CNN. Then the other plane hit the other tower and we were stunned. The realization that someone piloted those planes into the towers was staggering. As that knowledge was passed among the rest of my co-workers the first tower collapsed. I remember standing at my desk, holding my head and repeating out loud in a very loud and panicky voice that this "can't be happening." At that point all of us in the office were in a state of shock, fear, confusion, you name it. We were told over the building's loudspeaker to leave the building and go home. We did so in an eerie, almost silent wave of humanity, heading home to where it was safe. I don't think I heard anyone speak on the train ride home. I got home, put on the TV, watched the replay over and over again and called my mother and my sister. I will never forget that day and all the days following. God Bless America! 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: My husband (Bob) and I had just come home from what we thought was the worst weekend of our life together. We'd just visited a town in Michigan were our youngest daughter had moved to (her Step-Father relocated there) since she lived with her Mother she went with them. I cried the whole weekend, my husband was his brave Fatherly self. We returned home late Monday evening and decided to sleep in;we were on vacation. We were going to fill our vacation with family fun here at home. Spend some time with our grandchildren and spoil our Mothers. Tuesday morning arrived and Bob turned on the television to see what was going on in the world. He suddenly woke me up saying he thought there was a movie advertisement and he didn't think the movie was going to be a success. He had the sound turned down so I could sleep. I put my glasses on and saw the first tower on fire then immediately after a plane CRASH into the second tower. I told him that didn't look like a movie commerical and to turn up the volume! At that instant we both broke out in tears and held each other for the rest of the day. We spent the rest of the week glued to our television and cried. We were utterly numb and heart sick.We made sure EVERYONE we knew across the nation was alright. Prayed that the families directly affected would find strength in God and country. We realized that we'd just lived through not just the worst weekend of our lives together but the absolute worst week of our lives together as AMERICANS and citizens of the world! Thank You for the opportunity. 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 story5068.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: Our officemates and I were doing our normal job in Pentagon room 5A324 when I heard the news. Someone saw the breaking story of the first World Trade Center crash on the news in our Colonel?s office. The word quickly went out, and soon we were crowded in our conference room watching the story unfold. We were debating if it had been an accident or deliberate. When the second plane hit the World Trade Center, we knew it was deliberate. While most expressed horror at the scene, two of us realized that we were now a likely target. We were trying to figure out who to call to get the Pentagon evacuated, when it happened. We felt the impact, and we knew what it was. The building around us shook, but nothing collapsed on us. Thank God for the engineers and engineering of the Pentagon. I have no doubt that the original construction and renovation saved a lot of lives. We immediately started evacuating the office, seemingly for a long time before the alarms went off. We made sure that our office and our neighboring office were both empty before evacuating the building. I was amazed at the calmness of everyone. It didn?t matter if we were military, civilian, or contractor - we were of one spirit, helping others along the way. Once outside, we saw the smoke and smelled the burning fuel. I wanted to go to the scene and render what assistance I could. I realized though that all military had the same basic self-aid buddy-care training, and emergency vehicles were already responding as well. I was concerned that I could be part of the problem instead, so I made my way to the outer edge of the south parking lot. Though logically I have no reason for regret, I still regret not doing more to help. Once out there, I offered assistance to a female Staff Sergeant that had fainted. Someone had water, so I offered tissues to use as a cold compress to a nurse that took things under control. A police officer announced evacuation to one mile away, but people were not responding. I used my command voice to "herd" people out of the south parking lot and beyond the freeway overpasses. During this action, I was informed that we were released to go home and await orders. Seeing that the situation seemed under control, I started leaving the area. Noticing that vehicles were still coming down the ramp from I-395, I worked my way up the ramp to the freeway, directing traffic to stop and turn around along the way. When I got to the freeway, a police officer arrived and thanked me for redirecting the traffic. During my walk home along Columbia Pike, I noticed that several fire trucks and rescue vehicles were stuck on northbound Glebe Road trying to get through to Columbia Pike. I stopped traffic, directed southbound Glebe Road traffic to the side, and waved the fire vehicles into the opposing lane to get through. Also during my walk home, I rendered assistance to a young mother and her toddler son. She lived near the Pentagon and ran away after the explosion but was now concerned about her sister. I carried her son and walked them to a restaurant where I entertained her son while we watched for her sister to drive by looking for her. A coworker of another office arrived and waited with us. The woman?s sister arrived, and I resumed my walk home. When I got home, I called family to let them know I was OK. I then called a friend to find out if she was OK. She was shaken-up, but walked to Crystal City, so I told her I would pick her up. I drove in as close as I could and picked her up. We then got into the mass exodus out of the area to get her home. We then went back to work the next day, with the building still on fire. We arranged temporary workspace elsewhere in the building and set about the mission of fighting the war on terrorism. 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 story9129.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 busy with normal routine work, when my husband called to tell me that the World Trade Center had been attacked. He then called back several minutes later to tell me the Pentagon had been hit. Chaos erupted in the building. One of my employees' husband works at the Pentagon, she could not reach him. Because my daughter goes to school on an army base very close to NSA, I was very concerned and I drove like a race car driver to pick her and her best friend up from school. Once safely at home, my husband arrived to take care of my daughter and her best friend. Because I am a healthcare administrator, I returned to work where we held vigil for the rest of the afternoon, trying to calm my employee as we waited to hear word of her husband. Word came at 4pm, her husband was alive and unhurt. This tragedy spared me close friends and relatives, but it did not spare me my fellow human beings, my fellow Americans. I grieve for all of them, I pray for them still. May God Bless America and shield us from any further attacks from our enemies. 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 story4954.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 64.12.96.8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: My name is Heather. I am a C.P.A. in Providence, Rhode Island. I was at work on the morning of September 11th, buried in work due to an upcoming deadline. One person had a television in their office and was watching the Today show when news of the 1st plane was shown. We were all saddened by a plane crash but noone thought anything of terror. Then, 17 minutes later, when we were all pretty much back to work, the 2nd plane hit and that's when we knew that there was something tragically wrong going on in the country. We all went to the kitchen, where the television was and watched in horror and disbelief at the chaos that had engulfed New York City. It was unfathomable. Thoughts of revenge and terror raged through my head. The first thing I did was call home and tell mu husband that I love him. I was also very worried about an upcoming war because my brother had been in the National Guard. I feared that an ensuing war would take him away from his family. I was also thinking about how oblivious we were to anything like this happening. Never in a million years did I think another country could invade the United States, the most powerful country in the world. I was 9 months pregnant on September 11th. My baby was due in 11 days. All I could think of is what type of world is my son coming into? How could I bring a child into such a harsh world? I was an oblivious one. September 11th has made me take a lot things and hold them in perspective. Don't let the little things bother you. Tedious things can consume your life. Life is too short and too fragile. Try to live your life as best you can and help others as best you can. My son was born on September 22nd. What I will teach him is to love everyone, help everyone, and be thankful each day you're alive and that you were born into the greatest country in the world, the United States of 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 story2645.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. 155.212.176.151