246 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: On the morning of September 11th, everything seemed exceptionally clear and positive. My birthday was that previous Sunday (the 9th) and I had just recently found a new job after months of employment at AIG Global Real Estate (located at 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza, a couple of blocks east of where the towers stood). I remember oversleeping. Originally I had planned on getting up early to go to the Borders book store in the World Trade Center mall before work. It turns out I was spared a great deal by being tardy. By the time I dressed and got out onto the street it was about 9:00 a.m. or so. I walked down Essex Street to reach the JMZ subway line at Delancey. It was when I began my routine commute that I noticed the top of one of the towers was smoking. I called my roommate from a payphone since my cell phone didn't seem to be working. He worked evening hours in Jersey City, so I told him to think about alternate travel plans (rather than the PATH) to work if there was a large fire at the WTC. I kept walking to the train station where I found that the platform was overly crowded for such a little-used commuter line. It was then that an MTA worker came down to the platform to explain to us what had happened. He said two planes (two? I thought) were flown into the towers, and terrorism was suspected. The trains would be stopping at Chambers Street/City Hall at that time. So, worried about my co-workers and friends I hopped on a train, got out at City Hall and proceeded to walk down a chaotic scene of people milling about and gathered around radios/TV's in order to get as much information as possible. I had to bypass Broadway and Nassau Street by using alleys and side streets in order to make it down to my office building. I noticed then that the building was undergoing evacuation as people kept streaming out. My cell phone was useless and I was unable to find anyone I knew. I then headed west toward the Towers on Liberty Street. Weaving through a mob of people scurrying around I made my way down the street when a uniformed officer loomed up in front of me, pointed at my chest and said, "Get the hell out of here now!" Stunned to the point where I couldn't challenge anything that remotely looked like authority, let alone a cop, I walked back the way I came. I moved up Fulton Street while numbly staring at all the whey faced, frantic people around me. It was when I reached the buildings of Pace University by City Hall park that I heard a terrified shout: "It's falling!" I turned around while I heard the most horrifying rumble and roar. A tower was collapsing, and the panic of thousands of people propelled us forward as if a sea had just receded from the lower portion of Manhattan. I twisted around to see if the building was 'chasing' us, but the cloud of dust and ash settled about two or three hundred yards behind me. While I walked home, a bit lost in my thoughts, I overheard a person talking on Canal Street. "I can't believe it...both of them!" I looked back once again, and both towers were gone. I spent the rest of the day at home chain smoking while my roommate brought me beer, with brief moments where I would email, instant message or (when luck allowed) phone friends and loved ones. I returned the next Monday to work, same building, gasping in the dust and smoke, surrounded by national guardsmen and police officers. It didn't stop me from lighting a cigarette every hour that day. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story1400.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 a hard story to tell, and I'm sure that even now (August 18, 2002) as we approach the first anniversary of that day, I have yet to fully deal with my grief. I did not lose anyone I knew among the many who died that day, nor have I ever lived in New York, but I have always felt bound to New York City in some way. Somehow that city is the soul of our nation; the strength, pride, diversity living together as one people. The Twin Towers were a symbol of our achievement as a free and prosperous people. The Pentagon has long stood as a sign of our country's might and determination. I live on the west coast of the United States, in California, and I was awakened by my husband. He sat down on the bed beside me and said, "You need to get up. Something bad is happening." I rolled over, half-awake. We often had conversations in the morning about current events or the morning's newspaper headline, but something in his tone was different that day. There was no amusement, no wry humor, just a flatness. He said, "A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center." I could only think it was an accident. A terrible one to be sure, but an accident nonetheless. The Towers had stood all my life, completed the year my birth, and I had always been fascinated by them. I knew they were designed to withstand the impact of an airplane. I said, "Ok, let's go look." The TV was already on. That was bad. My husband doesn't watch TV in the morning and neither do I. The sound was muted, and I sank onto the couch, dumbfounded at what I was seeing as the first tower burned. We learned that a second plane had hit the other tower. Not an accident. An attack. We watched the live broadcast, and I kept thinking about how enormous the buildings were. They held the population of the city of Santa Clara in their steel frames during the day. Tens of thousands of people. How long had they been burning? Then there was a sudden shower of debris from one tower, and a huge column-shaped cloud of dust and smoke. Even the newscaster echoed my disbelief. Where was the building? Was the smoke that thick? The smoke began to clear -- revealing only sky behind it -- and I realized I had just seen a mighty brother of the city fall. Over 100 stories collapsed in less than 3 seconds. Every floor of that building weighed 14 million pounds. Gone in a breath, with thousands of people inside. Then the next building fell, a little later. All I could think of was the people inside and the people who had to be in the streets below. A tawny cloud engulfed Manhattan, boiling through the streets to the sea where it covered the water. My beautiful city is burning. What do you do in the face of something like that? How do you act out your next moments, the next hours, the next days? I wept against my husband's leg for a few moments, silent, grappling with what I had seen. I went to work, knowing I had to keep busy or I would simply drift numbly. In traffic, I couldn't see sometimes through the tears that fell silently. I could tell by looking who else in traffic knew about the attacks, and who didn't. Those of us who knew, we all had the same shell-shocked, horrified expression. I work for AeA, the American Electronics Association, and there were clients of ours who had offices in the Twin Towers. We kept the radios and the TVs on all day, listening for word of survivors, for word from our government. Word from our clients. It looked so fake, the buildings falling like that. I had never seen such huge destruction in real life. Very few of us have, even though we think we know what it looks like. Now we know that the special effects in the movies got it right. We got snatches of rumors and information tidbits from our contacts on Capitol Hill, which I won't repeat here, but while many were false, some were not. The Pentagon had been hit, as well. All non-military aircraft were grounded. The President was airborne and his location was classified. It was every bad thriller movie and Tom Clancy novel come to life, too surreal to be believed. Our building was under lockdown, and exits normally left unlocked were secured and opened only with card keys. We scrutinized everyone we met, searching their eyes for evidence of some damnation. /Is he the enemy?/ We learned that suspicion had fallen to a man named Osama bin Laden. /Who?/ And an organization called Al-Qaida. /Who are those guys?/ When I went home that night, I drove past the San Jose International Airport. The tarmac was deserted, the airplanes all idle and dark in their parking stalls. The FedEx area by the freeway, normally bustling with activity, was silent. The parking lot was empty. All day long, the normal rhythmic roar of departing airplanes that went over my building had been absent. It was as if the nation held its breath, waiting for the other shoe to drop. The next day, it was apparent that whoever had been in the Towers when they fell, was dead. There were no wounded, no injured. You either escaped, or you burned. The Pentagon looked surprisingly intact (it was designed to withstand a huge bomb), but people had died there too. In Pennsylvania, everyone on Flight 93 perished in a heroic attempt to prevent that plane from finding its target. We will never know how many lives were saved by that bravery. At work, I searched for a map of the Twin Towers, to show me what companies had been in there. A company called Marsh had offices there, a major business affiliate with my company. Many people in our offices had personal ties to Marsh people. Marsh occupied the floors that the planes had struck. Almost their entire office population, over 700 people, had died in flames. It was part of my job to identify who had been affected, to find names in my company's database. I found several, marking their records and attaching a brief note: "Deceased. Victim of World Trade Center attacks on 9/11/01." One of the names I found was Thomas E. Burnett, Jr. He was the COO of a company called Thoratec. He is believed to have engineering the passenger revolt on Flight 93 that brought the plane down in an open field. He had lived in a town close to me. I marked his name as I had the others, feeling the respect and pride that I could not record in the database. When I was finished I was so choked with rage I could barely breathe. I had never experienced emotions like this. Their magnitude dwarfed anything I had ever known. I was ready to kill Osama bin Laden myself. I would have put a gun to his head and gladly shot him in cold blood. I would still do it now, from sheer justice if not fury. Suddenly I knew what it meant to want to fight for my country, to be willing to die for it. During my lifetime, the wars America fought meant little. They were politically motivated, poorly fought and without moral or rational purpose or design. They existed for the convenience of a corrupt politician or to curry favor with another government. But to defend my liberty, to defend it for others who cannot fight; that I understand now. I have learned what patriotism is, what it feels like. The knowing of the greatness of my country and what freedom means, feeling it in my chest like a swell of fierceness and unwavering desire. That spirit means more than my life. It is greater than money or power or fear. Obviously others know what it means too, more keenly that I before now. They were willing to die to destroy it. That second night, on September 12, the airport was running again, and FedEx was busy as usual, frantic to make up the time they had lost in being grounded. I will never be able to describe the feeling I had when I saw a jetliner pass over me as it took off from the runway. America cannot be cowed. We are indomitable, fearless, righteous in our certainty, our justice, our liberty. We are unstoppable. And I saw something else amazing happen. In the years to come, younger generations will not be able to comprehend a time that existed so recently; when the flag was not flown here. In this part of California, to display the American flag was to declare oneself a conservative racist in the land of the America-hating, tree-hugging leftists. It was in bad taste at the very least, and not even the most diehard patriots dared to show the Stars & Stripes on their car. Some houses flew it on holidays, but only then. But after 9-11, I saw it everywhere. That simple emblem was no longer a sign of conservatism, or religion, or being a redneck or a gun nut or a white supremacist. It meant only one thing: we are American, and we are strong. Stickers and flags on cars, draped on houses, from overpasses, buildings, flying on every flagpole in the city. Someone went around and covered the pedestrian overpass lights with colored plastic so at night they glowed red-white-blue. Elsewhere I saw rows of colored plastic balls hung in the flag design on train trestles. Red-white-blue Christmas lights hung in the flag design over the backs of sound walls facing the freeway. I began to see old, beat-up cars with flags painted on them. One van near my parents' house has its entire side covered with the design. Bumper stickers with declarations; "These Colors Don't Run", and "United We Stand". Someone hung a huge flag on the fence outside the San Jose Jail, facing the freeway. It is still there as I type this, almost 1 year later. I am still seeing the flag, even now. It has not disappeared like a fading trend, as so many people said it would. It is still on my car, and will remain there. Before 9-11, this did not exist here in San Jose. You would not have found a single flag displayed on a car anywhere, and precious few on homes. Maybe this helps people to understand the mind of our nation before 9-11. We lived in a fantasy world, where the most important news of the day was Chandra Levy's disappearance and her affair with Gary Condit, and whether mad cow disease was on the rampage. The President was seen as a stupid fool by many, an untried greenhorn by others. But the President has risen to the occasion, and history may show him to be one of our country's greatest presidents and statesmen, whose name will be revered for many generations. He understands the war we are in -- the war that we must fight even though we don't want to -- and he knows how to win. With liberty and justice for all. August 18, 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 story1067.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, Julie Hoot was driving to work and over the radio I heard the news. It was like a crude joke. Actually it would have been great if it was such. Unfortunately I arrived at work and it was confirmed even more, by the news on T.V. I called my boyfriend John Asta and left a message since he was still asleep. He is a Nasdaq Stock Trader. Unbelievably he had just taken off 2 weeks from the desk, otherwise he would have been at work. Later he awoke to my message and he then went to the T.V. MSNBC was a morning thing for us and he was completely shocked at what was shone on the screen. "It was like watching the movie DieHard." he said. I think it was the longest day that I have experienced in a long time. It is hard to believe that a year has passed since that day. The patriotism that has come from that tragic day is still strong and will always stay that way. All that lost their lives on that day will never be forgotten. God Bless America. In God We Trust, Julie Hoot and John Joseph Asta, Jr. 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 story2615.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 a very hard time, we were all surprised and shocked beyond belief. Me and my friends were talking about what was going to happen, what the US was probably going to do about it, and everything that heppened that day. I feel great sorrow for all of those being effected, however I wasn't really that much. 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: hi, I was on a bus trip to the amish country with my mom sister and daughter.We had been out in touring the country side and came back to our hotel and found out about the twin towers and the other plane crashing. We all were so sad over it . there was 54 ppl on our tour bus all of us close friends.We tried to keep strong for each other. My sister went as fast as she could to call her daughter in law whom is a flight attendent but she had not went out on a flight that day.It hit close to me because my son is a firefighter and i knew the sorrow he must have felt that day and i so far from him.As a mom of a fire man i'm so very proud of all the wonderfull firefighters there are in the world that they give so much to keep us safe and also the paramedics and the life squad personal, Dr's and nurses also.We are very lucky americans to live in such a place to have these Hero's. And a free country to live in. With pride and love to all the ppl in the world whom gave there all to this tragic day ---------------- A Mother of a firefighter----------- P.S. To all the people that lost love ones that day you are always in my heart and preyers now and for ever much love to you and your's 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 story3171.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: I arrived in D.C. on September 9 for a meeting at the NEH on the 10th. I had recently started a position with my state's humanities council and was looking forward to visiting the NEH offices. Part of the meeting was a tour of an exhibit at the Museum of American History on the morning of September 11. My boss and I had breakfast in the hotel that morning and while she went to her room to check out (we were scheduled to fly out that afternoon) I waited in the lobby. While there, I started talking to another meeting participant. While we were talking, I happened to mention that I lived in NYC for several years. She then said "have you heard what happened. Planes have flown into the Twin Towers." My first thought was of the small plane that had flown into the Empire State Building in the 40s. She then said that they were large planes, commercial planes, and then mentioned that they were possibly hijacked. I was in complete shock and started shaking. My boss then arrived and I told her the story. I then wondered if we should head to the airport and try to get an earlier flight home. I just wanted to be home. We decided to stay. A short time later, another participant came down and said that the Pentagon had been hit and that the Mall was on fire. I then got really scared. I thought we were being attacked. What was happening? Just then, several ambulances drove by and were followed by the Mass Casualty Unit. I had my cell phone and tried to call my parents but was unable to get through. I remember another man outside on his phone and we just looked at one another. "Can't get out?" I asked and he said no. As I went back inside, my co-worker was at the desk shaking. She had seen it all on TV. We put our names on a waiting list for rooms and I went up to hers. I will never forget the sight when she opened the door and I saw the TV. Lower Manhattan was covered in smoke and Katie Couric was talking. The towers were billowing, just like I heard from someone in the lobby. Just then, there were reports of a bomb going off outside the State Dept. and I thought, where do I need to be? Where is the safest place in this hotel if something happens? I looked outside and it was like a parking lot. Cars trying to get out of the city. I was able to call out on the hotel line and I called my parents and friends. While talking I turned and saw the first tower collapse and thought this was it. Manhattan was going to crumble due to all of the weight of the building and force of the fall. My heart stopped. I thought of my friends still there and worried about them (all were safe I later discovered). After an hour, things began to "calm" down and we decided to head down the street to a convenience store. Cars were everywhere and there was this off duty police officer directing traffic. She did an amazing job. As people walked by they patter her on the back and thanked her for her effort. Later, we went to a room on the top floor. Looking out the balcony we could see the smoke rising from the Pentagon and hear the helicopters overhead. Each time I heard one I felt uneasy and looked to the skies. By that afternoon an eerie calm had settled over the city. I remember looking out the window and seeing no cars. No traffic was allowed in and it seemed like a slow weekend afternoon. After two more days in D.C. (including seeing the exhibit that we were scheduled to see that Tuesday morning) we were fortunate enough to get a rental car. It took two more days to get home. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story427.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'll never forget the way I felt the day I heard about and watched the attack on the World Trade Towers. For one split moment I felt the exact pain of everyone who lost someone that day. I looked at my students and saw the anguish on their faces and was at a total lose on how to comfort them and ease their fears. That same day I went to the hospital to visit my grandfather and watched his expression as we once again watched the tragedy. I realize then just how old he was and that life is not always promised tomorrow. I decided that day to make some changes. My family and I seemed to draw a little bit closer and I viewed life as a chance to make a difference in every student's life that I taught. Today, I continue making that difference. On this anniversary, I share the pain and I know that each victim rest in the Hands of God for giving something that each person needs to truly be thankful for-LIFE. 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 story5121.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: THE TICKING OF MY CLOCK January 27th, 2002 January 28, January 29, 30, 31st. Don?t tell me not to worry. February March April So what if I?m scared! May is so soon Leave me alone! June Flowers will bloom July My birthday again August New York City remember that heat? I can?t breath it?s too hot. Then September again That blue sky Almost holy Sweet smell of morning Neighbors wave by I feel proud and awake Glorious in new clogs My tight jeans and thin shirt I walk to the school Trees lining the streets A working class queen I feel special today With lips freshly painted Eyes eager and proud I tell them my name I scream it out loud Sign the dotted line as I enter the tent That voting booth a magical space It?s so romantic to think That I have a say in who governs this place. I am frightened so there! You don?t understand I had hopes for much more ?cause I believe in this land I am scared for September to reenter my space. Remember those words "Nothing will ever be the same." "Our lives have been changed forever." We will use less paper coffee cups. "Americans no longer seduced by celebrities!" And money. "Americans feel more responsible for the earth." We will watch less Talk Shows and talk to each other. Remember these words (RAP) Reality TV will become history and democracy will spread in Africa, Chile even Turkey the only guarantee For land of the free. I?m frightened so there You think you?re so smart You with the answers Don?t tell me not to worry So what if I?m scared! What have we learned since that day in September I taste that blue sky I still smell the deep dust. I wished for a change So what if I?m grown I have dreams I have hopes And I wanted it all I had hoped for a new world following that fall. What have we learned since that day in September Nothing has changed. I remember I remember I?m frightened so there You think you?re so smart You with the answers Don?t tell me not to worry So what if I?m scared! (Lullaby) I dreamed that Zaire was covered with sugar I hoped that the Middle East became fountains of water I fantasized Puerto Rico owning its riches I imagined Palestine alive and so free I heard the new laughter between Miami and Cuba I thought that we?d find all the guns in this world Bury them in ground zero an architects delight Then September again That blue sky Almost holy Sweet smell of morning An anniversary of glory. I?m frightened so there You think you?re so smart You with the answers Don?t tell me not to start So what if I?m scared! Leave me alone! These are just my words in an angry poem. 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 story82.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. 2002-02-26 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 165.121.68.186 Annotation Annotations to this item. Afganistan/Mideast Protest NY:3 Feature Poem 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: On September 11, 2001 I was coming from getting my picture done at school. Then I was going in to the computure lab and the princapal was telling all the teachers what happen and then are teacher told us to watch the news. So we turned on the tv and we was watching the two twin towers in flames. Then at that moment I was thinking to my self who did this. I was wounding if any thing was going to happened to are school or are town. Then as we was still watching the news we saw the second plane fly into the other towers. Then i just tought the world was gonna come to a end or some thing bad was going to happened. A year ago from today I been hearing about that there is going to be another attact and I am just praying that there will be no more attacts and they put a stop to them from killing all our american's. 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 story3464.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. 156.63.41.73 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 always do in the afternoon I was going to check the stock market. They have the latest news at the site too. I saw something about WTC and airplanes. I was chocked. Ran around the office and screamed that something terrible had happened in New York. Most people didn?t belive me so I asked them to come and watch the news. But first of all I called my brother living in New Jersey but I didn?t reach him so I sent a mail. He answered and told me that he and his wife was safe but chocked. When I came home I watched the new the whole evening. I could not believe that this could happen in USA. And I still can?t understand it. I was very said when John F Kennedy died. But what happened to WTC was a bigger chock. I thought about all families that lost their loved once, the firebrigade that went up to help people and ran into the fire and died. I was born 1939 so I have experienced many awful things in my life. But WTC is the worsed and I hope we don?t have to see more of these evil things in the world. Birgitta Wikstr?m, Lund, Sweden 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 story1763.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. 2002-09-05 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 193.14.25.70 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: When I first heard that a plane hit the World Trade Center, I thought it was the one in Dallas but Dallas is just 2 story high and then I realized that it was in New York. I started to cry for the lost ones whom did not even get a chance to get out. As the day went by, we watch the TV and listen to the radio and just could not beleive that could happen to us. When I heard the the Muslims were dancing in the street, I was angry but what they do not realize it that it could happen to them and it did because their family lives within the United States. As September 11, 2002 approaches, we all fear that it would happen again but I do not think that they would do it on the same date but it could happen anytime and we need to be ready to strike back. I have a nephew-in-law whom is in the Army and he has a wife and a 10 month old boy whom he is not with because he is out trying to protect our Nation and I hope that all service men and women will be able to come home to their ones soon. My heart goes out the families that lost either their spouse, son, daughter, grandson, granddaughter, nephew or niece. You are really the heroes because you had to go on living and taking over your family responibilities and I know that has to be really hard. I do not know what I would do if I lost my husband or stepdaughter but I know that I would look back at this day and see all the families that lost someone and that would give me the courage to go on because you did. God Bless each everyone of you and may he watch over you every day and night. God Bless. 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 story4499.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. 12.148.141.20 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 really did not know what to think. I really know is that its scary to think there is people that could do what they did to some people that did not dsver to die. I was A jr in high school and all i could about was my faily and friends i felt bad for those people who lost people they love, Because i knew all my family was safe. My uncle works for the goverment and i was worryed that someting might have happend to him. I know that i was no were close to new yourk or the other sites but my high school was affected by for about a week in all my class all we did was watch the news. Sporting events were canceled and we tryed are best to help out we clocted close, we had a blood dirve, we even collted mony ,we sent a big banner to new york,we also made a quilt in one of my classes . And Every one in the hole school helped out. im just thankful we have so meany great men and wemon in this country. THANK YOU TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO GAVE THER LIFE FOR ME AND FOR THOSE WHO STILL GOD BLESS YOU ALL YOU ARE THE HOPE WE ALL NEED FOR A BETTER LIFE. IM ALMOST 20 NOW AND CAN BE AND DO WHAT IWANT BECUASE OF ALL OF YOU. THANKS AND GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU AND 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 story10999.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2004-09-13 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 205.188.116.140 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 was asleep when the planes crashed that day... My father's girlfriend called me in a panic, trying to find out where my sister in law was. This quiet natured woman was screaming at me to wake up, and screaming at me to tell me where Kathy was. I didn't understand. "She's in eastern Washington, why?". " Oh thank God!" and she let out a sigh of relief.Then she said that New York had been bombed....She said to turn on the TV. It's always bad when they never say which channel. Like millions of other people, I sat there in stunned silence and then the tears came. Kathy frequently flew to New York on buisness, and everyone was trying to track her down.I assured her that I'd call her back just in case Kathy had changed her plans. As I hung up, I realized Kathy frequently changes buisness plans WITHOUT telling anyone,so then I started to panic. Phone lines were jammed, even in Seattle, so I quickly realized E-mail was my best bet to find her that day. I composed a urgent E-mail to her, and prayed. Shortly after that was sent, the news came on again. There was a plane that had crashed in Pittsburgh. My mom and stepdad were visiting family in Pittsburg, so my panic level rose again. After several hours of E-mails and trying the phones, I finally reached my mom. They were safe, still visiting family. E-mails were pouring in, and when the phone lines were free for a moment, I'd get another panicked call from family and friends worried. I told them what I knew, that she was probably in eastern washington, but if she had changed her plans, I'd find out and notify them. More frantic E-mails were sent, and just as my fear had reached a fever pitch, Kathy answered. She was fine, and had postponed buisness in New York. I notified everyone who had asked about her, and collapsed in gratitude. I was lucky, and then came the guilt that I was so lucky. I went from not knowing where my sister in law and parents were, to feeling so sad. There were now thousands of families who were frantically calling and E-mailing, only to find out that they weren't umong the lucky ones. I had lost my fiance in June of that year, and his loss taught me what the meaning of the word 'gone' really is. Now thousands understood that as well, and my heart was heavy. I believe in angels, and that our soul survives death, so I've always believed my fiance's spirit haunts me. I asked him to go into the rubble and comfort those who were trapped, and be with those souls who had died, so they wouldn't be as scared. I think he helped, I really do. I fielded calls for the next few days, tracking everyone down and notifying them our loved ones were safe. We were lucky, so lucky. My wish is that day, none of the families would have learned the true meaning 'gone'. To the families of those who were lost, we have not forgotten. "In each man who dies, there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them." -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko 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 story10888.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2004-09-10 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 67.181.212.179 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 horrific to know that what I thought was debris were people jumping from the building. I remember that a few hours later, we were sent home and as I walked home (thankfully, I only live a few blocks from where I work), I was amazed at the amount of people on the street. It was akin to an exodus from the City. I also remember that planes flew over-head and that all of us stopped and looked up. We all seemed to have the same thought -- is it one of ours? After watching hours of television, I knew I had to do something. I guess my father was right when he told my sisters and me that a second language would come in handy. Having a very close, working relationship with the Red Cross, I called them and headed out to Bellevue. I remember having a sticker placed on my jacket that identified me as ?Translator--Spanish/Espa?ol?. It was total chaos and I remember my husband coming to the location I was standing at and telling me we had to go home. I had been there for approximately 8 hours -- on my feet -- and I didn?t even realize it. I came back the following morning and started volunteering again. I remember the hush that fell over the area I was at as one of the first of many refrigerator cars approached the hospital. Thereafter, the decision was made to move operations to the Armory. I went to the Armory and just remember working; taking names; assisting in filling out forms; listening to people; trying to help. My employer was incredibly understanding, affording me the opportunity to help. I think they knew that this was my way of healing my internal feelings. I also remember going through debriefing before and after volunteering, however, if you were to ask me what we discussed, I could not really tell you. I continued volunteering until Friday, 9/14 and I guess what I remember the most is an elderly woman coming to me for assistance. By that time, we were already asking for anything that would help the identification process. The woman became very pensive at one point and said, ?You know -- my husband is not a man that is really important in that place. He just washes dishes. But he?s important to me. Do you think you will be able to find him?? I had no answer except to tell her we were doing all that was possible and thinking how empty that sounded. At some point, the determination was made that professional grief counselors would be brought in that were language-specific. In the back of my mind, I knew that I could not continue my volunteering. I was becoming too emotional to be of any help much longer and I was not sleeping. Friday night, I went home, slept for about 5 hours, woke and learned that my son, who is a Navy Seal, had gone ?underground.? I decided to go back to sleep. It healed a little but it wasn?t until I heard from him this past week, that I can say I have slept soundly. 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 story69.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. 2002-02-20 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 209.49.189.242 Annotation Annotations to this item. Military Missing Persons Rescue/clean-up workers/volunteers NY:2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: i remember it like it was yesterday, i cant even believe that it is one year already. i went into work late everyone was talking about it. they asked me have you heard the news, i said no they said we are going to war a plane hit one of the twin towers of the world trade center. i thought to my self oh my god i cant believe this is happing. they told me thats not all a plane hit the pentagon also. this was total shock to me. i so scared and shock at the same time being i worked at a bank. they made us go home in fear terriost would attack us. when i went home the sight sicken me people were on fire jumping out the world trade center. all i can say is that was a day i will never forget. please join me in remembering september 11, 2001. stephanie adams marrero, louisiana 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 story4299.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. 216.107.113.182 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 around 7:30 am waking up to the sound of my dad's footsteps. He kept yelling "Oh my gosh!" and I walked to my brother's room and turned the tv on. As soon as the screen appeared I saw the second plane hit the tower and I could not believe what I was seeing. I fell to the floor and wept and kept watching the people running from the area. Both tv's at our house were on high volume so the screaming and the noise just erupted through my house as if we were in there. My heart literally crushed when I looked closer to the buildings and saw people clinging on the windows and even a few just jumping off in panic. Right then I just broke down. I headed to school that morning and in our school we have a huge tv screen, I walked in and the whole school was around the tv. I walked to my friend and looked at everyone else and I just started crying because the images and the though of the people in the buildings and the people that had jumped off just kept flashing in my mind. Throughout the day, the lounge were just full of people stuck to the tv and I just kept weeping every second. I came home and just went straight to the tv set and cried in my room. During that week, they had cancelled all flights and the nearby church St. Paul's were going to asess at least 400 people. I donated some blankets and food for their aid. In my leadership class, we raised $2500 in a week from school and donated it to the American Red Cross. The following week the church had a silent vigil which I attended and it was just so hard to sit there while tears came down my cheeks. Till now my heart still breaks because of the images still pasted in my mind. Everyday I pray to God above and seeing all those people that died that they are looking down on us because they were the many angels that God was asking for. 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 story224.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. 2002-03-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 24.83.37.93 Annotation Annotations to this item. Religion Rescue/clean-up workers/volunteers INTERNATIONAL Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I had come down the stairs after taking a shower and was dressed in my ticketing agents uniform. At the time I was working for Midway Airlines in Raleigh, NC. They had gone bankrupt a month before. I was also 5 months pregnant. I turned on the TV and watched as the first tower was smoking and then as the 2nd plane hit the 2nd building. I was in shock and horrified. I didn't want to beleive we were under attack. I got into the car around 9:30 and somewhere along the way the pentagon got hit. Now I was scared, if they got to the pentagon-our national defense-nothing was sacred. My only calming point was that the airport was probably the safest place to go. As I got to the airport and road the bus to the terminal, they grounded all flights and my co-worker and I looked at each other, she voiced what I was thinking. What do we do??? I shook my head and said, "I don't know, this is unheard of." At the terminal, most of the passengers were at the curb taking any bus they could to get out of there. We walked across the terminal and into the gate area. The tarmac looked like the expressway after an accident. One plane on top of each other. We went up to the gates and found the supervisor. "Can't beleive I forgot my ID. I can't go anywhere." she complained "and I know what red means......we don't fly" We asked what we could do and she said see if AA needs help. There was a plane that American was unloading (a 757 in fact) that was going from tampa to LaGuardia and had to stop here. One of the passengers said "its your damn fault that they had to stop here. " to the AA agent. The terminal was quiet, the TV's were off because of it,except for the ones on each end. We gave people were they could get a room and helped get them to the shuttle buses. After we were in our breakroom watching as the towers fell and all the coverage. The terminal was secure there was no passengers there. They locked up the security gate and kept the ramp agents on to check the planes for bombs. It was eerie that day to see how it affected the airports and disrupt life. 5 years later I remember it like it was yesterday. The feeling that flows through you, the sadness and fear. The sights and sounds. After,I heard other peoples stories, co-workers and other airline employees. Some where very sad and others I was stunned at. I can't imagine not being there and experiencing it the way I did and the thing I remember most before then is about a week or less before then. It was a beautiful night, sitting on a luggage cart looking at the cloudless sky. There was a serenity there like a calm before the storm. We talked about how the passengers have been so miserable and what they expected from us. It was far from our thoughts about something like this in the year 2001 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story20734.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2006-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 66.67.45.201 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 remeber being at college and i recieved a text message telling me about the attack on the world trade center. At first, i didnt really know much about the WTC. I got home later that day to see it all over the news and in our local papers. I was horrified. It was like something out of Die hard Movie. Although i never knew any victims of 9/11, Even now, it plays on my mind and sometimes I even dream about it, being there and watching it for myself. I dont know why. I have my own little Minute silences each year on september 11th wherever i am to remeber those innocent heros and victims who were taken away by such evil people. I cant write what i really think of these animals, but I'm sure everyone knows what I mean. If i could afford to, I would love to come over to visit Ground Zero and lay some flowers. Although I live miles away, I still never forget. Cheryl Spray, Nottingham, Uk. 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 story11001.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2004-09-13 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 62.254.0.14 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: 9/11 was an extremlely sad event. Thousands of families have lost thier fathers, brothers, mothers and sisters. Hundreds of civil servants lost thier lives in the service of thier city and country. But 9/11 has caused an undesirable political situation in the United States. A terrorist attack on the world trade center is not a new phenomenon, nor is the hijacking of airliners. Yet due to the number of americans lost this event has given Bush and other politicians the ability to flaunt thier power uncontrollably. It has become almost a sin to question the motives or actions of the Bush administration, which can hide behind terrorism. In this country terrorism is not really a problem. Compared to areas like Israel we are not in danger at all. The fact that these terrorists were so successful does not mean that all of a sudden terrorism is a dire threat, we are in just as much danger now as we were 10 years ago when another terrorist tried to bring down the WTC. The only difference is that he wasn't successful. 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 story9608.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. 2003-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 208.31.154.100 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 started a new job at the university in July. I didn't start work until 9 am, but it took me a 1/2 hour to get to work every day. I always listened to the Today show on the radio as one station played NBC. I was very close to work when the announcment of the first plane hitting the tower was made. At that time it was assumed that it was a small commuter plane. As I was driving into the parking lot at work the Today show was interviewing a woman and she said "Oh my God, another plane just hit!" I got out of my car and saw some co-workers. When I told them that the Twin Towers were hit, they basically accused me of fibbing. I went into the building and apparently I was white because when I asked to see a TV the people were "What is the matter!?!?" I just told them to turn on the TV. My thoughts were with my husband and family during the minutes and hours that passed. I just got done saying to someone "Thank god we live in East-Gods-Country Pennsylvania" when the news came about the plane crash in Somerset. This plane crashed not more than 2 miles from where my husband works. Once I knew he was ok, I tryed to reach my family. My parents, brother and sister-in-law were suppose to fly to NYC from Boston that day to go to see the Producers. I thought their plane was in the morning, Thank God it was later. Needless to say, they never went. Both my children were in Elementary School. I went back and forth on whether I should pick them up or not. I finally decided to leave them in familiar surroundings and safety, but when I did pick them up, there was only 1 or 2 other kids in each of their classes as parents had come to get their children. I thank the professionals at the school everyday for their compassinate handling of this day with mine and other children as they remained innocent of the true extent of the tragedy until their parents could break it to them. I would not let my children see the TV, but once they were asleep, I could not turn off the news. Daily little things remind me of September 11th, working at the computer and thinking of the individuals who went to work and didn't come home. My thoughts and prayers are always with them and all the families affected both on September 11th and with all the happenings since then. Thank God for all the heros, both known and unknown then and now. Pray for all the children who will be living in a world that never has the innocence it did before September 11th. 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 story10515.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2004-03-31 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 144.80.78.5