291 20 70359 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I am a Federal Service employee, a supervisor at Fleet Technical Support Center, Pacific. We provide technical services to the various ships and shore stations in the Pacific/Indian Ocean areas for all systems and equipments installed aboard U.S. Navy units. I arrived at my office at 0530, the normal time for us to arrive since we commute from Temecula, CA, about 60 miles north of San Diego. Sometimes traffic is heavier that normal so we plan to arrive earlier than our normal start time of 0600 just in case. My normal morning routine is to lite off my computer, check email, while listening to the news on the radio. This morning was a little different. About 10 minutes after getting into my routine, the news broadcaster mentioned that an airplane apparently had gone astray and had run into one of the twin towers in New York City. He speculated that the plane was from Kennedy or La Guardia and had simply gone off course. I called my wife at home in Lake Elsinore and asked her to turn on the TV and see if there was anything on the network news about the crash. She said that she was watching the whole thing on TV and that has just seen another plane in the air behind the second tower. Just then, the plane collided into the tower and the flames shot out the other side of the building. I heard her scream, then say "Oh, my God"..... She started to cry. Not exactly the way I would have wanted her to start her day, but today, the world was changing forever. We talked for about 10 more minutes before I had to hang up. Things started happening around the base. Security was advanced to a very high level. Personnel were being turned around at the gates. Access was restricted to those already on the base, and only active duty military personnel were being allowed on the station. The traffic patterns around the Naval Station were quickly clogged with cars and civilian employees trying to get to work. Those that could find parking outside the base did so and walked through tightened security to gain access to the base. Many painful minutes passed as did rumors regarding the status of forces and reactionary responses. Shortly after 0900, all supervisors were assembled in the department office to learn that all civilians were to be released from duty until further notice. No one was to be deemed "essential" for the interim. All functions would be covered by the military members of the command until further notice. Should there be a need, the assigned Command Duty Officer (CDO) would contact the appropriate supervisor for any emergent work that was required by the units of the Pacific Fleet. All civilians were instructed to call in to the CDO each morning to determine our status and when we would be allowed to report back to work. The supervisors were to contact all of their employees as soon as word was received that we were allowed back on board the Naval Station. By 0945 that fateful morning, all civilian employees of Fleet Technical Support Center were dismissed. On the ride home, we were glued to the radio wondering what was next. The evacuation of the White House sent shivers up my spine. The next plane flew into the Pentagon, another site where I had been on many occasions during my 25 years of civilian employment and my nine and one half years of active naval service. Who is this that is attacking the very core of our democracy, and for what purpose? What organized fanatic group or country had mastermined this deadly display of terror? Could it have been a country in the middle east, a land of many cultures so different from mainstream America, where life seems cheap with the daily suicides conducted by Islamic and Muslim fundamentalists for the good of Allah? Too many questions and not enough answers. Arriving home, I found my wife stayed home from work. Glued to the television, I arrived in time to see the second tower collapse to the ground. Still in a state of shock at what had happened, we prayed for the police and firemen, the innocent civilians trapped in the inferno and hellishness of the entire scene. The thousands of lives that would never be the same, ever again. 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 story4551.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 2001 I had suffered through a business failure. While chasing what had proved to be a non-existent business opportunity the previous year, I had also developed some health problems. We struggled financially throughout 2001, and finally in August, my wife left me. To save money, I had cancelled cable. For the mornng of September 11, I had lined up an appointment with what I thought was going to become a very important client. I had arisen early and driven nearly 2 hours to Madison, WI. My car radio was dead, but I was pretty happy about this appointment and I remember singing my way to Madison. I walked into the client's office about 10 minutes late. When he came to the lobby to meet me, I stuck out my hand and said cheerily, "Good morning, How are you today?" He looked at me somewhat quizzically and said, "I'm fine except for what's going on in the world." I quickly explained aout my car radio not working and said, "Well, tell me what's happening!" When he told me that someone had flown a jet into the Tower, my jaw just dropped. I didn't know what to say. I seem to remember launching into my sales presentation and just getting thru it as quickly as possible. When I left his office I called my ex-wife. Someone had brought a TV into the office, and she updated me on the latest happenings. I went to a MacDonald's and sat for an hour watching replays of the coverage. I tried to make a few sales calls but did not seem to have the heart for it. After I drove home, I called my son. He works third shift and had slept most of the day. We shared a pizza and watched the replays. We both agreed it looked like scenes from the movie "Independence Day." I held my grand-daughter tight that night. 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 story3356.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 and a kid in my class came back from a restoom break and said turn on the tv there is something happen in new york city. My teacher immedately turned on the tv and there it was showing the first plane hitting the building. We watched it through the whole day of school and then in 3rd block they both fell. the rest of the day everyone felt down and no one would ever be the same. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was in my science class and i sit closes't to the door and some of the class rooms have tv but mine diden't. I herd someone crying out the door and me and my teacher whent out of the class to see what was wrong i diden't see any tears because her head was down so i thought that it was a joke but then i saw some others crying to so i said to my self i don't think it's a joke. I found out later in school that people had aunts and uncles cousins and friends that all past away in the 911 all because of terrorists of afghanistan. 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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 like any ordinary day. I was in school at the time and then the power turned off. It was off for a long time. Then a security guard came in saying that one of the Twin Towers was hit with a plane. When the power came back on the teachers had their televisions on the news and I saw one of the towers in flames. I couldn't believe that this is happening. Apparantly it was happening but I was still stunned by it. My father picked me up from school and took me to his job. I watched the television and I thought about how tragic this was. When the second plane hit and it was stated that is was a terrorist attack I lit up in a burning rage. I went home thinking how badly I wanted to put the criminals who did this in prison. Then I saw that people chose to drop onto the street instead of burning alive I burnt up even more. I though I was about to start and inferno and burn my house down. I didn't get any sleep that day either. I don't think any body did. 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 story9249.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: Around 10:05 AM I was listening to a story on Books-On-Tape as usual on my morning commute from home to George Mason University. I had a strange feeling come over me that the story was not important, so I turned off the tape and hit the news to learn about the crashes into the World Trade Center. I parked and walked toward class seeing a group of students gathered outside of the classroom building. They tried to tell me the news and asked if class was cancelled. Since I already heard about road closings near the Pentagon in a later news report before arriving at school, I decided on the spot that it would be best if we went inside and held class. In the classroom, we turned on the tv, but could only get sound and no pictures. About 80% of the class was there at the starting time at 10:30. First I asked if anyone had relatives at the Pentagon--six had relatives, mostly uncles and cousins. Since the cell phone system was not taking calls, the students did not know what to do. I mentioned that upward to 33,000 work at the Pentagon, so we will hope that no one of those known were in the section where the crash was held. My first task was to do a typical communication exercise during crisis situations--how did you learn about it. I was surprised that the plurality was first a person [family member, friend, etc.], second was the radio, and third was TV. No print was out yet... Then we heard a plane had crashed near Summerset, PA. One of the students was from there and his parents lived near there. I had him try to call on land lines, and use my phone in my office if needed. He came back in 10 minutes--not being able to get through. I told him to take a time period, like every 10 minutes and slip out to try. He had no luck. Then we discussed how rumors would be natural and discussed how journalists verify observations. At the time a bomb was suppossedly set in a car at the State Department. Several students had relatives working there. We heard reports about the roads closing and people walking across the bridges. One of my students got through on her phone to her dad who wanted her to drive home to Maryland through the disrict. I suggested she stay on campus as the district would be closed down and if more attacks would occur they would probably be in the district. Some students decided to leave as the tension was to great. By 11:15 am I was down to half the class. Around 11:25, 20 minutes before the end of class, the tension was so great and the discussion seemed to wither, so en masse, they all got up and left. I went home and had lunch with my wife and then returned to campus at 1:30 in case students were around and I did have a 4:30 class, which was cancelled later in the afternoon by the university closing down. I stayed until 4:45 and then headed home. Several times I say administrators walking through the building. It was reassuring to see them. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story907.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. 2002-07-18 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 152.163.201.64 Annotation Annotations to this item. Pentagon Rumors Struggle to get home Students/Teachers Telephones and Cell Phones DC: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: My husband came into the house telling me to turn on the TV as the World Trade Center had been hit by a plane. As soon as we turned it on, we watched the second tower being hit by a second plane. We could not figure out what was happening as it seemed surreal. We then noticed a smaller screen showing the pentagon. While trying to figure all this out, the mayor of Cleveland came on the news saying that there was an unidentified plane in their air space. Still confused, we went outside to try to see the plane, which we did not. We then called both of our children, one of whom lived in Hawaii and was still asleep. I don't believe we have ever been this upset in our entire 60 something lives, and sincerely hope we are never again in this position. 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 story7257.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. 2002-09-13 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 24.166.47.87 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 nearly everyone's 9-11 story begins, it was a day like any other. I had just been to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in ohio that sunday, but now it was back to the grind. I had two early classes, and got out at 11 AM, not having heard the news at that point. I went to my car to wait out my break until my next class, and turned on the radio as I always did to listen to my favorite local talk show. But what I heard was some sort of a discussion of terrorist attacks on the world trade center, which I first assumed was a new development or arrest in the 1993 bombing, or some guest who had written a book about it or something. But then, they recapped, stating that the world trade towers had both been completely destroied. They went on to mention a fire at the pentagon, and when I heard that, I immediately started my car and headed for home. On the way, it took several attempts to get a cell phone call out, but I managed to call my family and tell them I was heading back home. I listened to the radio on the way back, and when I arrived home, I finally saw the video of it all. I got in touch with my girlfriend as well (who is now my wife). I called a good friend of mine, remembering that he had been laid off the previous week and had been drinking the night before. It turns out, though I called some time after noon, I woke him up. I told him what was going on, and he didn't believe a word of it. I told him to turn on the tv. He asked what channel, and I told him it didn't matter, even cable channels like MTV had switched to news coverage. The next day was another beautiful blue-sky day, and I'll never forget the clear blue sky without a plane to be seen. We are very near a lot of commuter airports, and underneath a lot of high altitude flight path as well, and on a normal day you can't ever look to the skies without seeing at least a couple of planes. But these were no normal days. None of us will ever forget this day. I suppose it ranks right up there with the moon landing and the kennedy assassination. 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 story10505.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. 2004-03-27 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 69.89.161.224 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I have a radio on at my desk all of the time, mainly for the white noise which covers the real noise of a busy office when on 09/11/01 I heard a news break that said a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I told the two people close by, one a salesman who stated, unsurprised, that he had eaten at "Windows on the World" restaurant and wondered if he would end up with a plane in his soup. The regular programming resumed for about 20 minutes when they again broke in to say that a second plane had hit the South Tower and reports were that the Pentagon had been hit. The receptionist, who lived nearby, went home and brought a TV into my office where we all remained glued for the remainder of the day. We did try to go back and work but the TV simply pulled you back. Some of the comments on that day have remained with me to this day. A female reporter on ABC angrily wondering why we didn't know where the president was had to be the most inane. I, of course, was damn glad no one knew where he was. If we had, as we usually do, told everything we knew the terrorists would follow up on it. Living in a free country has it's perils. Letting it all hang out, as we are still wont to do will always be dangerous. I wouldn't change it for anything. 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 story3480.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: On September 11, 2001, all of us were somewhere. Many of us still vividly remember where we were when we heard the tragic news. Whether we were at school, home, work, or on the road, we were all somewhere. Now, on September 11, 2002, we are all here. Some people tried to destroy America, but we are still here! Please remember what America truly is about: equality for all people, regardless of the traits that define us. On 9/11/01 I was in debate class where, ironically, the topic was weapons of mass destruction. I had two family members that work in the Pentagon so I ran to the guidance office to try and contact family in West Virginia. After about an hour of frantic calling, I discovered that everyone had been home that day and all were safe. Yet, many were not as fortunate as I. My thoughts and sympathies are with the family and friends of all victims and heroes. 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 story6925.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: September 11, 2001 was just another day of work for me. I wasn't too enthusiastic about it since the job I had wasn't my forte, however it was a job to supplement income for myself and to assist my wife. I was working with electricians at the time to help add a new building to Giant's headquarters... we we're in the phase of laying PVC pipe in the ground. I was just praying the day would go by quick. Working in the construction industry I wasn't at liberty to answer my cell phone whenever it rang, although I always had it on wherever I went and thus depended on it at times. Around 9ish in the morning in the middle of hooking 2 pipes together and trying to hold my breath from the fumes of the super glue, my cell phone started to ring and the display read my in-laws caller-id. So I ignored it since I was in the middle of holding pipe together.. add to that the electricians around me we're giving me grief and we're telling me to turn my cell phone off. A few minutes later and a few pipes later I recieved the same call, again I ignored it... but this time after I silenced the phone and the ringing stopped it rang again. At this point my mind was wondering "what could be so important that my mother-in-law keeps calling my cell phone?" So I finally answered my cell phone while I standing in a pit where all the pipe was waiting for me... oddly enough it was my brother-in-law on the phone asking me where my location was. He then proceeded to tell me not to go into D.C. and then told me the WTC Towers we're just attacked by two planes and the pentagon was also hit. He would also call me if there was anymore detail to add to it and hung up. At this point, i'm thinking the events are just a joke and continued to proceed with my work. Later on I thought about it and told a few of the guys I was working with what I just heard and their reaction was.. "yea right.. whatever" I felt that was pretty rude to say considering the thought still hadn't sunk into my mind and into reality. Soon enough within 30 minutes of recieving the phone call, we all stopped work and huddled around one of the work trucks that had just arrived at the job site and everyone was informed of the recent events. Now naturally we we're awaiting word from the shop whether to proceed working or to pause for the day and head on home...... well using the Nextels that we're available to us.... the word was to proceed working since it did not affect our present work. A few of the electricians that had gathered around started walking off and I started to hear the racist remarks coming from them.. that it was an Ayrab and to watch out for all guys with a dot on their head, not to trust them. I was so disgusted by their ignorance that I vowed to myself to eventually leave the trade and the ignorant thinking that I was constantly surrounded by, at the same time one thought came to mind... I was praying that Osama Bin Laden wasn't behind this.. and knew that disgrace, disgust, anger and hatred that would come out as a result of this event. Later on that day around 3:30pm, we all closed up shop for the day and headed to the beltway and for the first time it was CLEAR as if people we're afraid to drive on their OWN roads, we made record time driving home from the dc area to UMBC which is a good one hour drive during normal rush hour traffic. Once I finally made it to my vehicle and drove to my in-laws house I finally witnessed the fatal tragic events that had occurred previously that day. Over and over again the tapes we're repeated non-stop to glorify how horrific the 'attack' was. Watching further as Peter Jennings was reporting a terrorist group by the name of "Al Qaeda" had taken responsibility for the attack. Right away I said outloud the definition of the group name.. 'the base'. It hit me then that arab's general will have a very negative generic view, especially muslims. I felt history was the present --- meaning racism was about to re-surface not for blacks or whites but for muslims and arabs. I immediately recalled the movie 'The Seige' with Denzel Washington and remembered the camps set-up in that movie that held arabs and muslim arabs alike.... the same idea that Adolf Hitler had set-up when the Nazis we're in grand control. I just prayed that these events would never become reality, however they slowly are whether the citizens of this country like it or not. One man's anger and hositility to this country has instilled so much fear in everybody's heart. Now whenever I tell people my name, they ask where it comes from and then ask me my opinion on 9/11. My opinion is simple, ignorance leads to war. As it stood, the United States was a divided country before the attacks even occured. This country thrived on contraversy and other people's downfall, but the events of almost an hour had changed the way this country now operates with the enhanced security measures that millions of civillians face each day at airports or federal buildings. Millions we're angered that day... angered because we view ourselves as the almighty and wondering how all this could happen... well we aren't, despite our present day technologies and advancements. However the country's security is at it's highest alert stage. 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 story3154.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. 66.166.231.244 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: Like every other person has said, it was a normal morning I was in eighth grade. I had heard rumors of planes flying into the World Trade Center towers. I had little to no clue what the buildings were but I knew they were big buildings. I didn?t believe the rumors of the planes I thought how on earth could fighter jets fly into two huge buildings. Our school district prohibited the faculty from saying anything, which greatly angered the students, but one teacher allowed the students to look on the Internet for minute-by-minute updates. It was later confirmed by a teacher that airliners hit the buildings. The confusion going through my head was, oh my god there were innocent people on those planes. By that time the towers had also collapsed. I was so confused, and trying to comprehend what was going on while also trying to get through the day. I had no idea what I was about to watch on the TV, and what I was about to realize. When I first walked in the door and turned on the TV I said "thousands of people had to of worked in those buildings..." My oldest brother was attending college at the University of Pittsburgh. The news was reporting a plane down in Pittsburgh; I immediately went into a panic. My family had tried contacting him and his friends were already on their way home. I panicked and just needed a break, away from the news and my family and from the world. I had no idea what effect this event would have on my life and me. I did not know anyone who was killed in the attacks but I was still effected. To this day I think about it everyday and I am still in disbelief of what happened. I am traveling to Europe this summer as a Student Ambassador. My goal is to help the Europeans learn to know what it was like on that horrific day for Americans. I am determined to stand up for the United States and show as many foreigners what it was like. God Bless to all and to the families who lost loved ones, there are no words that I can say to express my feelings of sorrow. 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 story10379.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. 2004-01-27 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 209.23.200.87 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 worked all night and got home about 8am so i was in and out of sleep so i just caught bits and pieces of what was going on.It wasn't until my husband called me about 2pm and asked if i were watching the tv.Later that evening it seemed like everyone and their dog were getting gas and water,everyone around here was thinking we were at war,and there wasn't going to be anymore gas,food,and water left. 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 story8914.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. 2003-01-03 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 24.116.93.196 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 in the shower, getting ready for work. My husband came into the bathroom, saying, "hey, are you listening to the news?" (we have a radio in the shower) - "what is this about the tower in New York and some plane crash?" I didn't know what he was talking about - but it could have been anything. We had been fighting for a few days, and I wasn't in the best mood. I said, "I don't know..." By the time I came out of the bathroom with a towel on my wet hair, he was standing in the middle of the living room watching the news - one of the towers had been hit. How awful, a plane that went awry, a bad accident. "what happened?" I said, still feeling removed. As we watched, the other plane came slicing through the sky, and that moment - that horrible moment that I'll never forget for the rest of my life - when that plane disappeared - making the silhouette of its now ruined frame in the body of the building and bursting out the other side in a black belch of horror. The orange flame, the black smoke - my gasp - the shock. My husband and I, both 24 years of age, innocent, looking at each other in disbelief - I don't ever remember feeling so forlorn, lost, strange. No one in the entire world could answer my question at that moment - why? I was afraid and I wanted someone to hold me. I got online right away and found my best friend online - my friend in New York. We started calling our other friends in New York. As we sat watching, word came of the plane at the Pentagon. That's when I lost it. Our country. My life. My home. They are going to take it all away. Where is my president? Where is my family? What is happening? I called my boss - we work with international students at a university - he said to come as soon as I could pull myself together, because we had a lot to do - we needed to find the students. I cried all the way to work, listening to the confused news reporters on the radio - no one knowing what to say, how to interpret what was happening. They just kept saying it over and over, "Again, apparently two hijacked planes have crashed into the world trade centers in New York, and an unconfirmed third crash has occurred at the Pentagon..." shock in their voices. When I arrived at work, televisions were on everywhere. Everyone stood with the same look in their eyes. Five of us stood around the doorway in my office watching - and when the towers started to collapse, we were beyond being able to speak. I felt like a child - looking for the adult in the room who could explain. But we were all doing the same thing. I broke later in the morning and sobbed on my colleague's shoulder. We called in the Arab students and told them to stay close to us - we didn't want them to experience any retribution. I can't write any more right now. 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 story664.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: As I walked into the spanish class on september 11 my freshman year of high schoool the first thing I saw was my Spanish teacher Ms. Murray crying he eyes out. Noone had any clue what had happened. Later we all learned about the tragedy, yet it didn't sink in at all for almost all of us. We went through the net us learning more and more about the disaster until we finally started too see what was going on. From day on after tha we tled about it in almos every class and wrote reactions to almost everythig that wenton. Ovr all it was a life changing expierence. From Max McEachern 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 story1790.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: We were all stunned, watching the news out of New York. My husband, who works in Pentagon called on his cell phone to ask if I knew what what was happening in NY. I said yes of course...We spoke briefly about the implications . Then he said "Now what? I've got to go, some is running through the building telling us to evacuate!" A few minutes later I saw that the pentagon had been hit. 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 story2264.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. 63.86.69.3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I had just started my second year at secondary school.I needed new shoes so decided to get them after school as the town centre was a short walk away.I walked into the shoe shop and started to browse through the products.I observed that the radio was on.The shop manager appeared slightly shaken.She spoke to a worker about how her son had phoned to tell her.I just assumed that something had happened within her family.I carried on looking at the shoes.As i picked up a pair, i heard the voice of George W.Bush on the radio.He was speaking of the terrible events that had happened and how the enemy will be hunted down.I felt a shiver travel down my spine.As i placed the shoe back on the shelf,a woman walked in the shop.She started to speak.She was American and said how she was told of an accident at the empire state building.The shop manager said that the events were shocking and picked up the phone.She told the woman of her son in New York.The American looked upset and then the manager broke down in tears.I bought the shoes, caught the bus home and asked my mum what happened.She said that there was some accident in America.I switched on the telly and was greeted with horrific images, images that i knew no one would forget for a long time.New York was under attack.I saw that the screen said 'live' so i knew that anything could happen.This was more than an accident, this was like World War 3.With that, i remembered that i had a paper round to do.I picked up the bag and walked down the street.I observed the sky.Not a single plane was seen.I finished the round and walked home, eager to watch the news.The images on the TV this time were different.No burning buildings.No people watching in horror.The buildings were gone.The people were going, running for their lives.Not only were the people going but so were the towers.Even though this was happening thousands of miles from me, i felt scared.I knew that these were events that would shape tomorrow.This was and is just the beginning. 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 story8738.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I remember on 9/11/01 I was in the 4th grade I was walking down the hallway and I looked in a teacher's classroom she had a t.v. on with the news. All I saw was people running down the street with lots of dust on them. Next I saw a big airplane crash into these two big buildings, back then I didnt know what the names was. When I got home that evening I called my mommma and I told her what was going on, then I turned on the news. The news reporter was saying how people highjacked some airplanes and crashed them in to some building. Thousands of people was stuck under buildings that had claps, and some people had died. I saw police officers, firemens, and volunteer helping people to safty. When I had saw that on the t.v. , that had made me feel really bad cause people lost there family and friends, and I was thankful no one in my family or friends was on the airplains and stuck under the buildind that had claps. 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 story20526.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: ON SEPTEMBER 11,2001 I was on my way to enroll my children in school and my oldest daughter heard the news about the terroist incident and it was devastating I stopped everything I was doing and went home to be with my children,who was at home waiting for us to get back from the school with their schedule well when we told them what we had heard they were very frighten so we turned on the news and it was very horrible of what we saw. Never in my wildest dream would I'd ever thought something like this would happen here in the United States.After everything had calmed down a little bit I remembered that it was my 1st year in recovery from drug abuse. I said I knew something bug was going to happen but not this. I'm now 4years and 8months clean but every 911 I celebrate and say Prayers for those who suffered lose on that day.Oprah Ipray that this story reaches you because there is much more that I would like to say. I'm a single mother of six three are grown now and they are my strenght. My daughter who was with me on 911 is my Hero she helped me so much during my active addiction she took care of her two sisters and her brother. This Beautiful young lady got married on May 1st and asked for nothing but that I'd be there for her. If this letter reach you thewn I know that it is an act of God. Truly sincerely yours Ernestine D Boyd 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 story11405.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: September 11, 2001 began like any other day. I awoke around 6:00 AM, showered, dressed, ate breakfast and drove to work (0.5 miles). I am a Documentation Manager for DBT Inc. A colleague of mine always had his radio on while working. Around 8:50 Am that morning he announced that a private plane had hit the World Trade Center. About 10 of us gathered around his radio to listen as history unfolded that day. A little while later we head that a second plane had hit the other Trade Center building. Then we heard they were 767 commercial planes. I went home that day for lunch and turned on CNN. What I witnessed was an unbelievable event. Watching CNN, I saw people jumping out of window from the 80th or 90th floors. It was very hard to believe such an event had occurred and had occurred here in the USA. As the news unfolded that day I heard a plane had hit the Pentagon and that I had crashed in Somerset County, right here in Pennsylvania. How could this be happening, I asked my self. What terrorist's group would commit suicide to further their strength? Although I was not directly involved in this tragedy, those events of 9-11-01 have affected all our lives. The stocks fell, airlines were in deep financial situations and America will never quite be the same. I travel frequently on my job and have discovered that getting on a plane now is quite different than it was two-years ago. The way of life that we (Americans) had become to know had changed and will probably never be the same again. I had planned to retire in the next few years, now I believe I may never know or enjoy retirement. God Bless America Terry Ryan, Documentation Manger DBT Inc. 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 story2502.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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