264 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: Joel Babcock Global studies 5/29/02 Final project 9/11 September 11, 2001 It was a normal sunny Tuesday in Barker, New York. I was in school in my second period class, which is Global Studies. We were learning about the Taliban and Afghanistan. A little bit into class another teacher came into our class and told us to turn on the television. There was a fire in one of the Twin Towers. My teacher, Mrs. Capen stopped class to watch the television. All of a sudden we saw a plane fly directly into the second twin tower. Then the news started saying that a plane may have crashed into the first tower and that's what started the fire. At first I thought it was fake because the teacher started saying that it might be the people she had just taught us about. We watched the television until the bell rang, then we all went to our next class. By then I figured it was real because every one was talking about it. I remembered that my sister was supposed to come back from vacation from California and fly in to New York where this was all happening. I was scared and hoped she was okay. My next class was gym and we started watching the events until we were all ready to go out side to play football. I played football, which kept my mind off the terrible news, and then came back into the school and watched the news. I saw the towers were still on fire. Then the first tower collapsed! It was gone! The bell rang so I went to my next class. In the halls there was a lot of talk about the twin towers. When I got in to my next class, Introduction to Occupations, we watched the news some more and then the second tower collapsed. There was a big hole in the city where two of the tallest buildings once were. The teacher turned off the television and we started class. At the end of class we turned the television back on and saw that the Pentagon was hit. Later in the day I found out it was a terrorist attack organized from the terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden who was associated with the Taliban. I couldn't believe that a fire in the buildings made them collapse. When I got home I found out my uncle was working in the Pentagon when this took place. He was fine though. I think I am lucky, in a sad way that I got to see this historic event all live on the television because this was an act of war on American soil. It was bigger than Pearl Harbor and affected many more people. It was a day I'll never forget and one the world will never forget. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story758.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was at work on this day. I remember a customer coming in and saying that the World Trade Centers have been hit with a plane or a bomb. We quickly turned up the radio and began listening to the horror that was unfolding in New York City. All I could do was pray for all the families that knew of people in the Centers. I also prayed for all of us here because I wasn't sure what was going to happen next. My sister had passed away in July of that same year and it made me think that God took her because he didn't want her to experience this horrible terror. I thank God today for those brave people on the flight that went down in PA because of them, they saved many lives. Their families should be greatful that they had such caring and loving husbands, fathers, brothers, etc. I pray every day for the people that passed away and for their families. These attacks really brought people together and I feel that this country will be a better place if we stick together and don't take what we have for granted. We will all be greatful for what all the NYC Firefighers did and we will all be proud to say that we're AMERICAN!!!!! Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story6351.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 early in Silverdale, about 6:00 am. I had just finished packing up my daughter's stuff so I could get her off to the babysitters and then head to work. I worked for New York & Company, also knowns as Lerners, in the Kitsap Mall, in Silverdale, Washington. As I dropped off my daughter, 2 1/2 year old Mercedes, I breifly heard on the radio about the first plane hitting the trade tower. They joked about it being a terrorist attack. As I pulled into the parking lot of the mall, they screamed "Oh my God another plane has hit the second building." I sat in my car, shocked, angry, and scared. I wasn't just scared for me or my daughter but for my husband, my husband is in the Navy. He was out to sea at the time the buildings and the Pentagon was hit. Of course he and his crew weren't spoken of because they where on a Sub, the USS Ohio. I feared that I'd never see him again, not knowing where all this was going. I said a quick prayer for the families who lost loved ones, for my family, and for America. As my boss and I walked into the mall I told her about what was going on. She was just as shocked and scare as the rest of us. We went into work and proceded with our jobs, when my babysitter called freaking out and scared for her husband and mine. I told her to calm down, to think about the kids, they didn't need to see her upset. So we hung up and about the same time the other manager of the store called to let us know what was going on, and to tell us at that point the Pentagon had been hit. We stood there looking at each other dumpfounded. We continued with our work and what seemed like moments later the manager called back again and told us the First Trade Tower, Second to be hit, had collasped. At that point we rushed into the break room and turned on the T.V. to watch the news. My first reaction after seeing it, was to call my Mother who lives in Orlando, Florida. She works in a tower, a court house downtown. But they had evacuted. I was glad. :) But at the same time scared. A few moments later the security officers at the mall told us to evacute. As we gathered up our stuff I called my babysitter to inform her I was coming home. She told me at that time the Naval Sub Base Bangor wasn't letting the school buses on. See we all lived on the Sub Base. I told her seeing that I was off base already I'd pick up her daughter and her neighbors daughter. So when we finally left the mall, I went to the girls school and picked them up. They where very confused to see me. They wondered where their Mommy's were. I just told them,"Some bad things have happened and I'm taking you home to your Mommys." They smiled. As we approached the base the line to get on the base was very long. We sat there for an hour waiting to go home. I wanted to see my daughter and I know my friends wanted theirs. We finally got to the gate and the Marines and Navy men inspected my car, went through everything to make sure no bombs or nothing was getting onto the base. I was scared and so was the girls but the Guys where great. Once I finally got to the babysitters house, the first thing I did was grab Mercedes and hug and kiss her. We sat down and I finally got to see the actual footage of the planes hitting the building. Mercedes, at the time was 2 1/2, asked me "Mommy, what happened." How do you explain to a 2 year old about bad people. I couldn't I just hugged her. I have never felt so many emotions at once, fear, haterd, toward the people who did this, love, disbelief, helplessness. One thing I do know, is I'm proud to say I'm so glad the action was taken right away, meaning, the way they handled the base, yes at times it was fustrating, but I felt safe. The way President Bush reacted, right away he wasn't going to deal with terrorist. I'm very proud to be an American today and everyday after September 11th 2001. I'm glad my husbands in the Navy, even though he's not over there fighting, but he's still serving his country and that makes me very Proud and honored to be an American......God Bless America. One Nation UNDER GOD!!!! 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 story5902.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 on the telephone with a parent when I saw the rest of our staff gathered around our television set. When I finished my call, I went to where everyone was standing and was told that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. Most, if not all of us, thought it was an accident but within a few minutes the second plane went into the second building and we all know the we were under attack. After the initial shock, my thoughts quickly centered on my daughter Michele who works two blocks from where the planes hit. I called her office and was told she had not arrived. I tried to remain calm but I began praying and hoping that she was okay. Was she hit by the falling pieces of the plane or the building? I called my youngest daughter who worked on the 45th floor of the first building until a year and one-half ago when she took a position in mid-town. Christine couldn't reach Michele either. I called Michele's office a second time and was told she had just arrived. She was in tears as she spoke to me of what she had seen, especially the people falling or jumping out of the upper floors. As I was trying to comfort her, she said that there was a tremendous noise and that a third plane was hitting the buildings. This, of course, was the first building collapsing. At this point she asked me what should she do. I was afraid to tell her to leave her office and run to the Brooklyn Bridge to try to get to our home in Queens because I was afraid the second building would collapse on her. I also didn't want to advise her to stay in her office for fear that her 4 or 5 story building might crumble from the impact of the second building falling. Somehow I know it was going down as well. I suggested that she try to remain calm, go outside and try to get some direction from a policeman or fireman. I asked that she call me back to let me know what she was doing. It was about 30-40 minutes before I heard from her. She was fine. She had gone outside where some firemen were ushering people back into the basement of her building. They knew or sensed that the second building was going down and wanted to protect people in the best way they knew how. Michele said that the basement was rumbling as the building fell, but that it was able to withstand the shock. She said she was going to try to make it to the Bridge but might not be able to call me for a while. Meanwhile back at our school I tried going into the halls and comforting some of the students who were upset. One of my seniors was visibly concerned because his mom had dropped him off before 8 a.m. on her way to a meeting at the trade center. He couldn't reach her on her cell phone. The parents of many of our students came to pick them up, but many also remained and talked with their friends while watching the events in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on television. I announced to as many as I could reach that I was available if any one wanted to talk or use my telephone to reach a loved one All the while, however, I kept thinking of Michele. Was she okay? When would she get home? When would I hear from her? Christine told me she was going to walk over the 59th Street Bridge. My middle daughter Diane is a nurse at a hospital in Queens. I couldn't contact her but knew that she would be on call for the injured. Every time I thought about the dead and injured, especially the heroic firemen, tears came to my eyes. I was supposed to be strong and comforting and be helping others. I tried but was also shocked and frightened about the safety of my family and fellow New Yorkers. I left school about one-half hour early and had to take the Tappan Zee Bridge because all the other bridges were closed for emergency vehicles. It took me about three and one- half hours, about one and one-half hours on the bridge alone to get home. Even though they are in their twenties, I always hug and kiss my daughters when coming or going but I never hugged them the way I did that night. The next morning I got up hoping that this had all been a bad dream, but it wasn't. We all went to church and prayed and cried a little more. I pray each day for the victims on the plane, in the building and on the ground and for the heroic firefighters, policemen and emergency workers who lost their lives trying to help them. I pray for their families and friends . God bless you and America. We will never forget you, especially the 19 firemen from my local firehouse in Maspeth, Queens, New York City who lost their lives. 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 story14.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I remember that day like it was yesterday. But, beore I get into that I first of all want to express my deepest sympathy to those families and friends who lost loved ones in any of the three terror attacks. I can only imagine what is must be like to have that happen. I was working like normal when my friend came in and said a plane had hit the WTC, I thought to myself surely that must be a mistake,then I went to where we had the TV on CNN and I saw the second plane hit. I could hardly believe my eyes. I was shocked. President Bush was only a few miles away in Sarasota getting ready to ready to the kids. That day has changed my life forever. I have a friend who works for the Disaster Unit for THE SALVATION ARMY in Tampa, FL.and he was called to go to New York City to help out. I talked to him when he came back and the stories were unreal. I remember going to church the next Sunday after the attach and so many people there, it has been felt by everyone. I have cried many times when I see pictures, read stories hear songs like " Proud to be an American " . I am so far from the WTC but, yet it has impacted me for life and I hope I will always feel the way I felt after that, the patrotism and so happy to be free. I pray that someday we will have World Peace and we in America will never have to feel afraid again. I pray for each family and friend who lost a loved one, I pray each day will get a litte easier for you but, we should never forget how that one day has impacted each and everyone of us. May God Bless You all and 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 story4761.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 day of September 11, I was at school at the time it happened, the bell just rang and a student came in and said the twin towers just got hit by a plane. I was falling asleep at the time so I wasn't paying attention to what he said. Then the teacher turned on the tv to watch channel one. We all watched the news, I really didn't care so I wasn't paying attention. A year later I still don't care much. 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: On the morning of September 11, 2001, I first read about the bombings on my Yahoo! browser. I spent the next six hours scanning the television stations for any reports that would calm my fears. I was driving to Detroit, Michigan that day and I needed some kind of reassurance. As I drove along I-94 from the northshore of Chicago to Detroit, I passed by dozens of flags at half mast. While I was still driving the car, I took a picture of every flag that I saw that day. I'll never forget the rush of mixed feelings I felt as I saw each of those flags flying...a nation united in tragedy...fear of the unknown...sadness over the loss of precious and innocent lives...anger at the thought that someone hates Americans so much...but mostly, I kept asking myself...why...? 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 story5630.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 had just dropped my kids off at school and my husband and I were just walking around the house. I turned on the television and was horrified and shocked at what I saw! I saw the first burning building and thought I was watching some old war film...until I saw the word "LIVE" at the top! I called my husband and he, too, could not believe. We watched and cried all day about this! Our hearts were broken for all the lives lost and the injured. Then, the outpouring of love from around the world was inspiring and appreciated! We will NEVER forget! And we will stand tall as a nation! 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: My family was very lucky. On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, as on other work days, my wife Pearl commutes from Brooklyn to her job at the headquarters building of District Council 37, the municipal employees union. Pearl typically gets off the IRT subway at Fulton Street, one stop early, in order to add a few paces to her walk to work. The Council is located at 125 Barclay Street, on the corner of West Street, one block north of the World Trade Center. She gets to her desk before 8:30 in the morning. My son Danny's first class at Stuyvesant High School is at 8:45. Stuyvesant is located four blocks north of the Trade Center. About half an hour after Pearl arrived at work, a little before 9, a coworker came up to her office on the third floor crying and referring to what would be the first of the two plane crashes. Pearl tried to comfort the woman; they took a brief walk her outside, then Pearl returned to her office. At this point in time, nobody at the union had a clear idea of the dimensions of the disaster. Then the second plane crashed. Pearl's sister Marion called to tell Pearl to get out of the building. A call followed from the woman Pearl just comforted; the woman also urged Pearl to leave the building. With presence of mind, she went about the office telling the few colleagues who had already arrived to leave work. When an office manager asked her who told her to tell people to leave, she said "I told people to leave." Pearl avoided Barclay Street, and left from the building's north entrance on Park Place. Soon Barclay Street would fill with smoke. She headed three blocks north along West Street to Chambers Street, to where Stuyvesant is located. Parents began arriving at the school. After a short delay, she took Danny out of school. The school was keeping the kids in place for the time being but allowing parents who showed up to take their kids out of school. When they started to walk north, away from the disaster, Danny became worried that I would travel downtown to look for him and Pearl. He decided to call my City College phonemail. I was teaching--at a nearby institution--and I would surely check my phonemail as is my habit. He left a message indicating that he and Pearl were safe, and that they were walking to my sister-in-law's apartment on West 90th Street. I am thankful that they would get word to me. I teach a biostatistics course on Tuesday mornings, beginning at 9:00, up at the medical center at 168th Street, in northern Manhattan. Perhaps about 30 minutes into the class, a woman named Sharon walked into the classroom to tell me and everyone else that a plane crashed into the Trade Center. Given the timing, we must have been one of several groups of people she visited. Many of us in the class thought it was an accident of a smaller scale of magnitude than what turned out to be. Sharon returned to the class about ten minutes later to tell us a second plane crashed into the Trade Center; there was the implication that this was a terrorist attack reminding us of the attack on the World Trade Center eight years earlier. I was shaken. My wife and son are in lower Manhattan, near the Trade Center. I dismissed the class. I found a phone. I called Pearl at her office but got no answer. Then I called my phonemail at City College. Danny left a message that was reassuring. He said they were alright and were heading on foot uptown to Marion's apartment on West 90th Street. He said in the phone message that they could not travel to Brooklyn because the subways stopped running. I stopped by an auditorium located in the building in which I teach. A news account of the attack and its aftermath was being broadcast on a large television screen. Soon I became more aware of the dimensions of the tragedy taking place that day. I then left the building. I saw a downtown bus at 168th Street and Fort Washington Avenue. I boarded. As I was riding downtown, I found in my jacket pocket a Sony walkman that I had forgotten that I taken had taken with me when I left the house that morning--both Pearl and I left the house extra early in order to vote in the primary election which was being held that day. I began listening to the radio. I was following the events, and relaying to other passengers the latest news items. But I also began to think about my daughter Emily. I anticipated that Emily, who had recently begun college and was some distance from home, must be just learning about the terrible news, and would be very worried. I got off the bus at 116th Street and Broadway. I walked quickly the short distance to the main Columbia University library. I looked for a computer. I found a bank of PCs. I asked a student to let me use his ID in order to pass through to my AOL account. He obliged me when I explained why I needed to use the computer. I sent an email to Emily telling her that Pearl and Danny were okay, and will soon be at Marion's house. Emily had learned of the attack. She had emailed me only 10 minutes earlier--she was in a panic about our safety. It was fortunate that I reached her. Although there was some local phone service, long distance service was nonexistent at that moment. Email proved to be a dependable way to communicate long distances. While Pearl had briefly stopped to wait on a line in order to make a telephone call, Danny, who had kept turning around to look at the disaster while they were walking uptown, turned around once more and observed the Trade Center towers collapse. He witnessed people flying out of windows. It was awful. He worried that one of the towers collapsed on his high school, perhaps killing his schoolmates. They were about half a mile north of the disaster at that moment. Although they walked about a mile north disaster to Houston Street, they managed to get a cab for the rest of the journey to 90th Street, which was helpful because Danny had broken his right foot in a soccer game ten days earlier. While they were traveling in the cab up West Street, Pearl observed groups of teenagers walking uptown. She told Danny that they had to be Stuyvesant kids. She wanted to disabuse him of the idea--at least for the moment--that a tower collapsed on the school building. Of course, a number of hours later we were sure the towers hadn't collapsed on the high school. The next day when we were settled at home we got Daniel to write about his experience. He wrote a moving yet clear-eyed account of the day. In the late morning, I met Pearl, Danny, and Marion at Marion's apartment. I got there about 15 minutes after Pearl and Danny arrived. We were extremely grateful to be together. While at Marion's I received an email from Emily, acknowledging word that we were okay. She wrote that she was going to give blood. We have been keeping an eye on Daniel; thus far he seems fine given what happened. On Monday September 17, we fulfilled a promise we had made to him earlier this summer. We moved Danny into the room that was Emily's, a move to which he looked forward for a long time. Danny, Pearl, our friend Stan, Danny's friends Robin and Gus, and I spent Friday and part of the weekend rebuilding a section of wall and painting the room blue; it had been pink. We wanted to restore some normalcy to our lives. The following weekend I took him to see the Mets play the Braves. Senator Haigel was right. The events resembled Pearl Harbor. Except this enemy is more elusive. There is a firehouse in my neighborhood, one long and three short blocks from my apartment building. Once I had occasion to call the city's emergency number because I observed smoke coming from the roof of a private house that is next to my building. Firefighters from the neighborhood firehouse arrived in less than a minute from the moment I called. No exaggeration. Our fire department is one of the reasons why New York is a great place to live. And our firefighters are among the best of the best people you can find in New York. The attack on the Trade Center led to the death of half of the 27 firefighters assigned to the neighborhood firehouse. A firehouse in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn lost everyone. Marion saw immediately that the attack had a Middle Eastern imprint: First there is a strike aimed at killing civilians and drawing rescuers to the site the attack; then there is a second strike ten minutes later that is not only aimed at killing additional civilians but is also aimed at killing rescuers. Such losses make me heartsick and angry. On Friday, September 21, the last day of summer, Pearl and I visited lower Manhattan. The site of the attack reminded me that Pearl's parents lived in London throughout the blitz. And like the aggressors in the blitz, these perpetrators of the attack on New York and Washington represent Nazism. The evidence is clearly available. The Times reported on September 22 that a Urdu-language, Pakistani newspaper sympathetic to bin Laden wrote that, to quote The Times, "Jews were responsible for the attacks on the United States." A reprint of a Middle Eastern newspaper found in Peshawar, Pakistan reported that although 4000 Jews held jobs at the Trade Center none were killed because of advance information in their possession. Like the Nazis, the bin Laden sect commits odious acts of evil, and projects the evil in its heart onto a conspiracy of Jews. Like the Nazis, they require on the part of the host population blind conformity although in the case of the Taliban host it is conformity to rules about beard length in men and the absence of schooling for girls. Finally, they are the equivalent of Nazis in the sense that the World Trade Center became a crematorium, a killing ground for the slaughter of innocent people. The grey ash we have seen covering parts of New York surely contains a mixture of incinerated building materials and the incinerated remains of victims who did nothing more than try to earn their bread or save lives. I want to see justice done to the individuals whose aim it was to launch the attacks on New York and Washington, the Cole, and our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. 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 story234.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Afganistan/Mideast Firefighters Foreign Policy Internet Osama Bin Laden Politics and politicians Rescue/clean-up workers/volunteers Terrorism U.S. retribution WTC, attack NY: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: Tragedy Tuesday September 11, 2001. Terrorist attacked our nation. I was in Barker Central School sitting in Earth Science talking to my friends when I over heard my teachers saying that a plane had just flown into the World Trade Center. It was around 8:00 in the morning. I was only 15 years old and had no clue what the World Trade Center were until I say the building show up on the TV. and then we saw the second plane fly into the building. The news showed people jumping for their lives because they had no way out of the burring buildings. Then the bottom of the screen said pentagon on fire. Then they showed the mall and all of the smoke coming from it. They could not show us the actual buildings because no planes were allowed over Washington D.C. and they could no get up to the buildings. To be on the safe side they evacuated all of the major government buildings. The president of the United States was in Florida. They flew him back to the white house then took him to a safe spot to hide for a little bit. There was another plane that crashed in Pennsylvania that they thought people tried to fight back with. The planes that hit the towers were going to California so they knew that they were full of fuel. When I first heard about all of this I thought that it was not real but it just never went away and I just figured out that it would not go away. It was real as real as real can be. An hour after the planes had crashed the buildings fell to the ground because of weak structure. The heat from the fire weakened the structure. Some three hundred rescue workers were crushed not all of them have been found. During this tragic incident 19,ooo people were injured killed or missing. Hey showed the building burning and people running for their lives. They said that some people called home because they could not get home because they were on the top floors of the buildings. About eight hours later the world trade center building seven and fallen because the structure had also been weakened. The day afterwards it was the talk of the country. When I heard that the pentagon had been hit I was worried because my aunt had told me she was going to get a job there but she did not. What was really shocking was that the plane that went into the pentagon was meant for the White House. The date that the attacks happened was 9-11-01. (nine one one) 911. That was so shocking that they used our own planes as weapons and innocent live as bait. They used a plane as a weapon something that barely anyone would thing of as being a weapon. But as you begin to think about it people are saying that we had warnings but not saying exactly what they were going to do. Just saying that they were going to attack the Unites States. That this would happen but we just ignored it. But I guess we should have tacking some notice to that because we could have prevented this if we just would have started to be more secure about the way we do things. Now months later we are checking people in the airports they have to take off their shoes to get checked. They also have to go through a tremendous amount of security. If you want to fly somewhere you have to get to the airport at least an hour early. There are troops in Afghanistan; they have been there for a long time now. They thing Asmo Bin Laden is dead but they don't know for sure. The news is saying that they are trying to get DNA samples from his family to find out. I personally do not think that this should not have happened because we did not go over there and bomb them because of their religion. We can get over and past that. The fact that they killed innocent people and people from other nations are is just wrong they should have never done this. 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 story594.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. 2002-05-14 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 168.169.8.134 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 getting ready to go to class. It was like any other day and then my mom started yelling. I ran in thinking something had happened to her and I saw the first plane in the building. I thought it was an accident and my mom said no way..it was terrorist. We both watch and wondered why and how. Then the second plane hit. I broke down. I couldnt believe it. It was the saddest thing ive ever seen. Being so far away I felt helpless and I just wanted to be able to do something...anything. I sent things to red cross..as much as I could. I gathered donations from my neighborhood. It still gets to me thought. My now husband's birthday is Sept. 11. He hates his birthday. But we just watched a few programs about 9/11. We both had tears in our eyes. It is so hard to watch even to this 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 story10789.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was working at a doctor's office at the time, with no TVs or radios. A patient called to tell us that the airplane had just struck the first twin tower. Everyone was upset, but they kept their cool, since we didn't know whether it was just an accident or terrorism. After the second twin tower and the pentagon was struck, everyone panicked. My mother-in-law called me, crying, because she was scared they would take her two sons into battle. At that particular moment, it hit me that I could lose my family. I have already lost my parents and several aunts and uncles. Now, I was afraid they would draft my husband, his brother, and also my brother. The thought hit me that my son could grow up without a father, the way I did. I was sickened. I imagined myself having to run things on my own without my husband, and I put myself in the place of the women who did lose their husbands that day. I was so grief-stricken. I could not believe that someone could hate so much that they could destroy innocent human lives, for no apparent reason. I will never forget where I was, or how I felt on September 11, 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 story2924.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: ON THE 11th SEPTEMBER 2001 i was seriously ill in the morning . After i have visited the doctor i was asked to rest for a while .AS i was relaxing in my bed,my dad called me on the phone i told me i should quickly turn on the television I turned on my television and all that i saw was a whole bunch of people running to and fro .I also some police men holding injured people.I sat down quietly and listened to what was happening.Later i learnt that some terrorist have attacked the USA(TRADE CENTER AND TWIN TOWER).I FELT SO SORRY FOR THE DICEASED .GOD BLESS AMERICA.WE LOVE YOU ALL . GO AMERICA DONT LOSE HOPE 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 story6746.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: At the beginning of August, I had such a strong premonition that something terrible was going to happen on September 12 that I ran to tell my husband and son. I did not know what was going to happen, I just knew it was going to be terrible. I thought that perhaps, since it was hurricane season, a strong hurricane might hit the U.S. The Saturday before Sept. 11, I cried all day and could not bring myself to get out of bed. That feeling lasted all weekend. By this time, I was constantly watching the Weather Channel because there were hurricanes forming. One in particular appeared to be moving toward the east coast of the U.S. I will never forget getting up on Tuesday, Sept. 11, and instantly turning on the Weather Channel. When they announced that the hurricane was turning away from the U.S., I felt relieved, and then instantly figured my premonition was wrong, and I had gotten myself worked up over nothing. I went to my school where I am a Speech Therapist and at 9:00 a.m. went into a classroom to get my students. They were at a special, but the teacher had a television on. I saw that a large building was on fire, and assumed she had a movie or video on. At that moment she told me about the plane hitting the first tower. Then the news began to come in about the other tower, the Pentagon, and the plane crashing in Pennsylvania. My husband works around Washington, D.C and I was unable to reach him by phone since all the circuits were full. We live in Pennsylvania, so the news about the crash hit especially hard. When I realized that the date was 9-11 and it was one day before my premonition of 9-12, I was stunned. While I knew from my premonition that something terrible was going to happen, I had never even envisioned something like what I saw. I felt frantic-I didn't know if my husband was safe, I was at school and our son was at his high school. All I wanted to do was run home and hug my husband and son. Instead, as teachers, we all had to be with the children and just wait things out. I found it very difficult to be strong around all the children and to have to act as if nothing really was amiss, when the feeling we all had was that the world as we knew it had just changed forever. My husband was able to call me eventually and he got home safely. I will never forget turning into our driveway and seeing his car there and feeling the most incredible sense of relief. That intensified when our son walked in the door from school. Needless to say, he wasn't allowed to go out (he wanted to go to the local park), but at that time no one had any idea of what was going to happen. The rest of our evening was spent reflecting, praying, and being thankful for being able to be together. 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 story5213.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 recieved a call from my daughter telling me of what was taking place in our world as we know it. At the same time vendors were coming in telling all of us the same story. It was and is the most horrifying day in ALL of our lives. I would just like to share my feelings with the rest of the world.My heart goes out to all of us but especially those who were directly involved as victims. The pain is overwhelming (I can only imagine)and your lives will never be the same because of this tragedy.I am truely sorry, I pray for each and everyone of you in my own way almost every day. Just always remember, that your loss, was also ours,even though we've never met. I believe this day brought all of us Americans together and we've become the family that shall never break again. God Bless you all, and protect all of us. Much Love and Sorrow Pee-Jay Hasapis 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 story4302.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 may not have been in New York but the news hit hard every where. I was sitting in my Drawing class when I heard about the attacks. When the teacher came into the room he said that he just heard the most unbelieveable thing, two planes were hijacked and hit the Twin Towers in New York. We all sat there and waited for a punch line to come in because we all thought he was joking, but he turned on the radio and we listened to the horrible news. For the rest of the day there was solmenness about campus. I called my mother as soon as I could and asked where my brother was because he travels a lot with his job. She told me that he was fine and that they sent everyone home from downtown Chicago, where he works. I next thought about all those people who were just doing there jobs and everyday activities and it made me realize that things do change in an instant. I always tell the people around me hoiw much I care about them but now I give them a hug because I don't know what will happen after they leave. If you do decide to read this please remeber to always tell someone how you care because they may not be there later to tell it to. 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 story3554.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 WTC tragedy is never far from my mind, today and every day. My apartment faces south on Houston Street and from every room I could see the twin towers. I miss them. Not that I enjoyed the architecture, but I miss the mood in that neighborhood. I remember walking by the towers every day, at least twice a day, when I worked downtown at different jobs. I remember seeing the rush of people exiting the PATH, subway and express busses. The vendors in the farmer's market, the paintball flyer guys in their flak jackets. I miss the smell of ambition and money in the air. That day, I was walking the 1.5 miles to work, as usual, but I left a bit later. Before I got to Canal Street, I looked up and saw a plane directly overhead. "God, that plane is flying awfully low," I thought to myself. Then I saw it enter 1 WTC. "Oh my God!" said a parking violations attendant writing tickets. "A plane just flew into the World Trade Center!" "You're a police officer," I replied. "Do something." Then I heard the siren and saw a fire truck racing along Canal Street. I kept walking. Like an automaton. At Canal, I saw the laborers standing and staring south at the building and the smoke. "I can't believe that building is still standing," I said to someone near me. I headed down Church Street, debating "should I go in or go back, go in or go back" and plodding on my route. I worked at 130 Liberty Street, at Deutsche Bank, directly south of 2 WTC. I was at about Park Place when a crowd of people came rushing toward me, panicky, as if in a movie. "Go to the park!" someone shouted, so I went east to City Hall Park, thinking that if a building came down, or there was gunfire, there was more open space there than on Church or Broadway. I found a zip disk on the ground and put it in my purse. "Someone will be wanting this," I thought. Still I kept walking. Now I could see 2 WTC was on fire. I went to Nassau, to get away from the crowds on Broadway. Should I call the office? People were fiddling with their cell phones, but not one was working. It was 9:30 and I was at Sym's on Trinity, a bit south of my office. I met two women from my department who told me the building was evacuated. (Amazing that I could meet anyone I knew in that crowd and chaos.) "OK. That's it. You saw me here. I'm going home. Anyone want to come with me? I live a half-hour away." "No thanks, we'll wait it out here and see what to do." (They fled to Staten Island on the ferry and spent the night there at a colleague's house.) I took the non-Broadway route back until I got to Worth Street. As I headed north on Broadway to Canal, I saw cars stopped in the street. Their doors were open, their windows were down. Their radios were blasting the all-news stations so everyone in the street could hear. People waited patiently in line at the phone booths. (How were they working?) Many, many people were heading uptown. At Canal, a policeman said the subways were working north of Canal, but by then I was 8 minutes from home. When I entered the lobby of my apartment building, it was 10:00. Someone said the WTC had fallen. I walked out and looked. Sure enough, there was only one tower there. At home, I had no phone service. I went to my computer and copied the email addresses of my family members. I went to the library, logged on and sent an email to my parents, siblings, husband and daughter at college: Subject "I'm OK from Janet." I told them in detail what I had seen. I waited for replies. After a while, I received an email from my daughter. She had once visited my office and knew exactly how close it was to the WTC. Then I heard from my sister. She called my mother, who was talking to my brother, who worked on Hudson below Canal and somehow had cell phone service. The magic of call waiting united the three of them. They knew I was safe. I gave my sister my husband's phone. I didn't know which would reach him first, email or voice mail, since he goes in and out of the office when teaching classes. Eventually, our daughter in high school got through to him and learned I was OK. That night, 20 large dump trucks were parked on Houston Street near my building. They were waiting for instructions. It was clear where they were headed. In the morning, they were gone. I saw three workers in hard hats walking south. "Are you going down there?" I asked. I didn't have to say where "there" was. We all knew. They nodded. "Be careful." I found the zip disk the next day. I wondered whether or not I should open it; what if it had a virus? I decided to open it anyway. There were a few letters and a resume. I called the phone number in Queens and left a message. The fellow, say his name was Tom, called me back that night. Thank you, thank you," he gushed. "You have made my life so much easier by finding that disk. I didn't know I had lost it." Tom told me that he had taken the E train from Queens to the WTC and was headed to work in New Jersey via the PATH. Something was wrong when he got to the concourse; people were leaving the building, so he followed them. (The first plane had hit the building, but no one knew what was going on.) Someone said, "People, I don't think this is very safe here," so they started to run. That's when his book bag must have opened and the disk flew out. We shared our stories. Then I said, "We were both very lucky and we are members of houses of worship. Please make a donation in acknowledgement of our good fortune." Tom agreed to do so and we made a plan for him to pick up the disk at my apartment building the next day; I left it with the doorman. I had no need to meet him. That night the doorman gave me Tom's Hallmark thank you card. I thought that was very sweet, that he went out and bought a card to thank me. What do I do differently? Whenever I talk to my daughters at college on the phone, I tell them I love them before I hang up. You never know. 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 story6158.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was in Biology class when it first happened. Everyone thought it was just an accident. Then the second plain hit, and everyone knew something evil was happening. It was harsh for my family, because my father is extremely patriotic and a former marine. To this day he still has one of those flags you put on your car window. Now it's hard to feel safe, but we try to live our lives the best that we can. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was actually at home sleeping whenever I had received a telephone call from my sister. She said that something really bad had happened, and that I needed to turn on the television. To my astonishment I saw before my very eyes a sign that our world would never be the same. The towers had just been hit, and there were rescue workers everywhere. I couldn't believe what I was seeing...all of those action movies had just played out in reality. My best friend had called shortly after that from college to see if I had heard the news. The rest of the day I pretty much stayed planted in front of the television to keep updated with what was going on. Another friend of mine had called and said that gas prices were going to go up, and that I needed to go fill up my tank as quick as I could. So, I told my mom, brother, and sister, and we all headed down to get gas. Later on that evening I spent alot of time with my family and a very close friend discussing the Bible, and how this event was foretold in it. Mostly I spent September 11, 2001 thanking God for the blessings that I do have, and praying that He would comfort and renew hope to the people who have lost their friends and loved ones through this act of violence. I believe that through this their were good things that happened, and those things are that many people became heroes that day... many people stepped outside of themselves and became selfless. I think that although this day started out in total tragedy, it turned into what can be remembered as a day that humanity and love poured out. 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 story6551.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-12 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 65.162.167.131 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 working at that time as an executive assistant for a tempermental regional planner. We, our PR rep, graphic designers, and project managers were sitting in our creepy conference room (filled with African masks) eating bagels with salmon cream cheese and drinking coffee. I was busily taking minutes as our boss was complaining that no one cared about the company but him when our intern came in and said a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. I don't think it registered with any of us, at first beyond thinking that that was sad or sort of unusual because, as our boss commented, the flight paths were no where near the World Trade Center. We continued getting chewed out about how lazy we were. A few minutes later, the intern came back in and said another one had hit the Center. We all became nervous and apprehensive, wondering what was going on. Terrorism, I don't think, had really entered any of our minds yet. We sat silent, waiting. He returned with the information about the Pentagon. A few of us began to cry. We wondered how much longer it was going to go on. We went out to our office and listened to the BBC over the Internet. No one could concentrate. All we thought about was what was going on in New York, hurting for those people, and thinking how life would never be the same again and where would this event take us. 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 story9191.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. 2003-04-17 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 64.12.96.135