297 20 70359 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: On September 11,2001 I was at school when the teacher turned on the radio an they where talking about what had happend.I thought what had happend On September 11,2001 was nothing ,because I was 8 years old.Now That I am older I realize what a tragety it has been.There were thousands of lives that where lost in this tragic accident. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I am still in as much shock today as I was on that horrid day. My son was very sick and I had to take the day off from work, which is very far and few in between. I was watching tv waiting for my son to wake up to give him medicine, while the whole tragedy unfolded right before my eyes. My son woke up crying and I could not move. It took me a good 15 minutes to pull myself together to be able to get my son. Once I got him I did not want to let him go, I feared everything at that point and had a huge cloud of uncertainty and fear hanging over my head. To me it just felt like the end, I could not figure out what it was the end of, but I had a huge feeling of loss and pain deep inside. It was a life changing event for me and I cannot imagine how people who suffered loss as a result of 9/11 go on. To me the entire event is so unimaginable that I still have trouble comprehending just how something like this could happen. My heart does and will forever go out to everyone who lost someone on 9/11. It breaks my heart over and over again to think of the children who will never grow up with their parents as a result of 9/11. Everynight when I hug my son and kiss him goodnight I thank god for those moments and cherish them like no other. I could not imagine it any other way and yet after 9/11 I realize how all that could change in an instant. I never in my life thought there would be a situation where I could not describe it with words strong enought to convey my true feelings. 9/11 was an unthinkably sad say. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I don't have any particular story-just a thought for today 9/11/02. The best thing we could have heard, woken up to hear, was that downtown Baghdad was being bombed back to the Stone Age! 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 story3179.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: When I woke up in the morning of September 11th, I had no clue of what was going on so I went on with my daily morning schedule before school started. Then I arrived at school and I reported to my first period class and my teacher was watching the news. At first when I saw the planes hit the building I thought it was a movie because id did not seem real to me. I just could not believe what I was saying. It was just to hard to believe and then I began to cry as I was watching the World Trade Centers get hit. I began to cry constantly as they showed people jumping out of the building. I felt sorry for those who were in the World Trade Centers. Then when they showed the World Trade Centers fall, I began to shake and then I became frozen. I just didn't believe that people would actually do such a thing to hurt innocent people. I saw people running on the streets and people looking for those people who they lost as they ran. This was such a sad thing to me. Then our principle walked in the class and told us to turn off the TV and so we did. After watching that I just could not concentrate on my schoolwork. I was thinking about what was going to happen and if my mom, dad, grandmother, and everyone else in my family were ok. I was thinking about the innocent people who got killed in the World Trade Centers, the public planes, and those who got injured in the Pentagon. Later on in the day I was watching the news and seeing what all happened. I was also watching people in the interviews who witnessed the attack. Then I remember seeing a mom, a brother, a wife, a child, and a father who were looking for their loved one and I began to pray fo them and pray that they found them and I prayed for those who we lost. I remember thinking that we have not lost anyone on this day, we have just gained more angels. I will never, in my life, forget this day. The bad guys thought that they could change our pride and dignity but they didn't, they made us have even more pride and more dignity and they made us even more proud to be Americans'. I love this country and I pray for the hurt families who lost loved ones. God Bless America. Today is September 11, 2002. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story3569.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 gym calss in school. we always have the radio playing when we do warm ups. My friend came over to me and said that she thought she herd two planes crashed. i dint think much of it. I know planes crash alot. THen in science my teacher told us about what really happened. i wasn't very compassionate and kind of put it off. THen next period in taskwe had the tv on. AS soon as i saw all that carnage it hit me. I immediatly started crying. i didnt even know anyone in newyork. It was so scary and i kind of thought something bad was going to happen that day. Right before lunch my parents came to pick me up. I was walking down the hall and saw my father standing outside the main office. I had never really like dmy dad that much but seeeing him stanidng there almost brought me to tears. i dont know why it just did. Then when i got into hte car i sat down. A few minutes later i tld my parents i loved them and started to cry. I havent told them i loved them in and very long time. when i got home i watched everything on tv. hten i went outside on my porch nad fell asleep on a lounge chaise. but before i fel asleep i, of course, scanned the skies for sigs of planes. 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 story9172.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: It was a normal day, in which the students were loudly chatting after class waiting for the school's morning annoucments to come on. The usual theme song was not heard, instead feared driven voices dictated what was on the screen. The class grew silent. Not a word was spoken, only mouth hung open out of dibelief. I remember feeling goosebumps form all over my body. It didn't matter that at that moment, it was thought to be an accident, It was bonechilling and I was scared. The bell rang to signial the move to the next class, yet none of us wanted to leave. As I entered my next class i noticed the T.V. on and change my seat so I could sit closer and listen to everything that was occuring.I learned that the Pentiagon was also hit. The images on the screen were of fire and desperation. Needlesstosay, the second plane hit and we knew it was no longer an acciedent. My theacher was in and out of the class room in an attempt to contact relatives she had in New York over her cell phone. The lines were all occupied and all she recived was a beeping sound on the other end. The principal came over the P.A. and instructed that the class would be extended until he notified other wise. I turned my attention back to the news and learned that there was still a plane unaccounted for. That stired even more fear in me. What if the other plane were on its way here? What about if it struck our Downtown where most of our business are located and the community colledge my boyfreind attends. The images on the screen became all too close. All flights were grounded. After 2 hours in the class i asked the theacher permission to go to the restroom. My highschool is partially open, and on my way to the restroom i had to walk over the roofless balcony that leads to it. The skies were baron of any activity and the streets were quiet. This was awkward because we are so close to the airport that we grew acustomed to the roar of the passing jets. To hear nothing was terrifying. Yet, I recall looking up at the sky in search of any air born object flying over Miami. I was terrified that I would witness the missing plane. The entire day was spent in disbelif in what was occuring in OUR America. As we passed from class to class I took my position closeist to the T.V. During the last class of the day with 30 minutes remaining of school, the principal came on the P.A. and announced that by orders from the School board, theachers were to turn off all t.v.. We all booed, turned off the t.v., and turned on the computer for the latest news. I read out loud to my class what was occuring. I recall trying to hold my tears back, but I don't know if I was Sucessful. I witness many other sheading tears of grief. That was a day that shook the world! 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 story6152.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 11th I dropped my children off at their elementray school and stayed for a fund-raising meeting. As I was leaving the school one of the teachers said a plane had crashed into one of the Twin Towers. I realized my brother had an office in the World Trade Center Marriott Hotel, and three of my cousins worked in the World Trade Center. I spent most of the day feeling useless in Florida calling back and forth to my mother and sisters and sister-in-law. My brother was in the Marriott at the time of the crash. He thought it was a small plane so as Director of Service he was organizing his staff and helping the injured people out of the hotel. He walked one injured woman out to an ambulence when he looked up and saw the gaping hole in the tower. As he was watching he saw the second plane crash into the south tower. He watched in horror as people jumped out of the windows, and ran in terror with the masses of people toward Battery Park as the massive cloud of ashe and debris chased after them. Fortunatly, my brother was pushed onto a Circle Line and eventually made it home to my parents house. One of my cousins did not go into work that day, he was playing a bussiness round of golf. And another one of my cousins planned to go into work late, after taking his pre-schooler to his first day of school. Unfortunatly, my cousin Loretta Vero (a corporate travel consultant) was in her office at American Express on the 94th floor of the North Tower. She was never recovered. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I will always remember September 11th as the day I truly believed I could lose my only child. Tommy was 25 and had lived and worked in Manhattan for the past two years - in his mind there was no greater city in the world! As my husband and I got ready for work that terrible day we had no inkling of the events that would change our lives. We were not overly surprised when the phone rang at 6:45 a.m., since we are recent transplants from the east coast, and friends and relatives often call then because of the time difference. But as I listened to my husband's voice I knew immediately that something was terribly wrong. I ran downstairs and grabbed the phone to talk to my son as my husband rushed to tune in the television. The horror we saw was beyond all comprehension, and the thought that Tommy was actually there threw me into a panic which only a mother can know. Our phone conversation was necessarily brief, and he assured me he was alright and would try to get back in touch a bit later. I fought back the tears and anger and depression (not always successfully) all that day and for all the days and weeks and months that followed. Every maternal instinct I had pushed me to get on a plane and go to New York to hug my son, but of course neither he nor my husband would even allow me to think of it. A year later I thank God every day that Tommy was spared at least physically, but I will never, ever forget. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: Fisrt off..I am a native of Trenton New Jersey. I have been livning in Wisconsin since 2000. I was at work on that morning building an addtion on a house when the owner came out and said in a paniced voice " We're under attack"... I immediatly went in to watch what was happening...the first plane had just hit...I was in total disbelife of what I was seeing ... Then as I was watching...the second plane smashed into the other tower....I got physaclly ill... I had to leave right then and there to go and make a few phone calls to find out if my cousins were okay...they both live in New York... as it turned out...my one cousin Eric happens to be a detective in Long Island and was there before the second plane hit.... THEN I found out that his brother was in the first tower that morning for work... he had a meeting 6 blocks down from the 2 towers... he was in the middle of the meeting when all hell broke loose... had he waited another 20 minutes he would have been in the building when it was hit... I thank god, as does he...the only thing that he lost was his miny van...buried tho with 27 of his co-workers... I still don't understand why this happened ...I don't think any of us will... but I do know this...we can NEVER...NEVER forget ... I remember when I was a kid going up to visit them ...watching the towers rise up from the ground to their finally stage on the sky line...what a sight... now they...and 3,000 of our friends...are gone... leaves a BIG hole in ones life... I guess the one thing that we have that makes this country so great..is each other... Thank you for letting me share a little in-site from that day and what it did to me on a personal level... take care and god bless... Donald C. Rouze Trenton , N.J. 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 story10534.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: Someday, somewhere, someone will ask you where you were on September 11, 2001. On Tuseday September 11, 2001, I was in 9th grade. I was going to 3rd period, Global Studies. The teacher was Mrs. Capen. She had reddish brown hair, tall, and she didn't wear glasses. When I walked in the classroom the television was on. Mrs. Capen told us to pull up a chair and to listen to what was happening in New York City. So I did, I pulled up a chair and was listening to what was happening on the televison. I saw a horrible sight; there was a building on fire!! The news reporters were saying that some people that were in some relation to Osama bin Lanan had hijacked a plane and had flown it into one of the Twin Towers. Now this was really weird, because just the week bfore this happened we were learning about the Taliban, and Osama bin Ladan and what horrible things they had been doing. At about 9:07am another plane had flown into the other World Trade Building, I thought, "how could people do such a thing to innocent people?" "Do they have any common sense?" At 9:30am another plane had hit the Pentagon in Washington D.C. After this had happened everything was shut down, every airport, borders everything. Why didn't they shut airports down after the first plane went into the one of the Twin Tower? Afterhearing all of this I wanted to do something to help. I am to young to give blood, and I just couldn't grab my bags and go there to help clear the rubble away. I am to young for everything! President Bush came on the news to give a speech on what was happening in the world and what was going to happen. He said that there would be justice, there would be mourning for those who lost someone, and he would get Osama bin Ladan dead or alive. Was there going to be another war? I thought that World War II was the war to end all wars? Mrs. Capen told us that we are witness of a huge tragedy in history. What I saw on the television was unbeliveable. I kept thinking, "did I know anyone that was falling from the burning building?" Or that was trying to rescue all the people trapped in the Towers? When the towers collapsed there was thousands of people killed by those inconsiderate terrorist groups. We didn't do anything to you did we? NO! Just because we have moved on with better technology and life syles doesn't mean you cna come and kill us! What I heard that day from several teachers was that we need revenge, they where quite angry at this whole situation. Many people were affected in our small town because they knew someone in New York City or Washington D.C. My opinion and felings with this whole issue is that it was very stupid in the terrorist's part. It is a free country here, we have so many things that people in other countries don't. They should be a part of this new technology and government. I think it would be a good idea to let the people everywhere try our society for one day just to see if they like it. I bet they would. We have so much to offer them computers, television, microwaves, EDUCATION, medical treatment, and even more technology than they have ever seen! People in my school and people in the small town of Barker take a lot of things for granted. For example school. Kids in my school think that school is stupid, why do they have to be there? Personally I like going to school but a lot of kids in Afganistan aren't allowed to go to school. The pledge is another thing that some kids take for ganted. Some don't even say the pledge! I mean that is something to be proud of. People are in Afganistan RIGHT NOW fighting for FREEDOM for us and the poor people that were terrorizerd, and don't even know what freedom is! Everyone should be free in the U.S.A. This is my opinion on September 11th, 2001. IT COSTS NOTHING TO BE PATRIOTIC!! 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 story705.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 BYRD SCHOOL, AND I WAS IN LITURATURE CLASS AROUND 10:00AM. I DID NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE ATTACK UNTIL MY TEACHER GOT A PHONE CALL, IT WAS HER DAUGHTER SHE WAS TELLLING HER ALL ABOUT THE ATTACK. SHE COULD NOT BELVIE IT. SHE RSAN ACROSS THE HALL TO MY SCIENCE TEACHERS CLASS AND STARTED TELLING HER ABOUT IT. MY TEACHER CAME BACK AND TUREND ON THE TV WE SAW THE PLAN GO INTO THE BUILDING MY TEACHER WENT OUT IN THE HALL TO GO CALL HER BROTHE WHO IS IN THE MILLATARUY TO MAKE SURE HE WAS OK, HE WAS. MY TEACHER WAS IN THE HALL FOR A WHILE AND THE NORTH TOWER CALLAPSED. WE ALL COULD NOT BELIVE IT WHEN MY TEACHER CAME BACK THERE WAS A INFO MARCIAL ON THE TV SO WE WERE TELLING HER WHAT HAPPENED, SHE STARTED TO GET ALL WEAPY. THEN WE SAW THE PLANE GO INTO THE SOUTH TOWER AND IT CALLAPSED MY CLASS STOPED WE WERE TO TRY AND REMBER ALL THE LIVES THAT WERE JUST LOST RIGHT IN FROUNT OF OUR FACES. MY TEACHER KEPT THE TV ON FOR THE REST OF THE DAY. WE STAYED IN OUR HOMEROOMS FOR THE DAY WATCHING THE TV. WE SAW THE ATTACK OVER AND OVER. EACH TIME WE COULD NOT BELIVE IT. SO NOE YEAR AFTER THE ATTACK WE STILL REMEMBER ALL THE LIVES THAT WERE LOST I VISTED MRS MAGAT YESTERDAY ON 9/11/02, SHE WAS SAD. SHE WAS PLAYING ALL THE SONGS WE PLAYED ON 9/11/01. SO IN CONCLUSION WE WILL NEVER FORGET 9/11/01!!!!!!!! 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 will never forget what a beautiful day it was in washington: blue skies, sun shining down, a very comfortable temperature in the low to mid-70s. Afetr the events occurred, and everyone poured into the streets, the scene was like one of those disaster movies from the 1970s -- traffic jammed up, people trying to get out of the downtown area on foor. Rumors were flying everywhere: tehre's a fire burning on the mall, the Pentagon's been hit by a plane. Entire city blocks were roped off, with policemen standing guard. They said there had been bomb threats. It was very strange. By the time I finally got up to DuPont Circle and ducked into a tavern, the TV screens were showing the images of the towers collapsing. I refused to believe it was true. I thought the TV announcers must have gotten it wrong. Tat's when I found out that teh Pentagon had been hit, and that teh plane had circled over downtown Washington before going back to Virginia and turning around to hit the Pentagon. I felt like those of us who work near the White House (about two blocks from my office) may have had our lives saved by the heroism of the passangers on the plane that went down in Pennsylvania. September 11th will be forever with me. I still think about it almost every 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 story1720.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 just getting up and getting ready for work. I am a fourth grade school teacher. It was eerie that day when I got to the school.The classroom TVs were tuned in to the Sacramento news before school,during breaks,lunch and after school. The children were extremely affected by what they had watched that morning on TV before school. We did the flag salute as usual but with more meaning and more expression that day. Questions seemed to fly all day long from the students, Why did they do this? Who did this? Will they come here and do something to us? We all tried to reasure the children but at the same time were asking many of the same questions. I don,t believe I have ever felt so shaken by a national event, except for the assassination of President Kennedy when I was in fourth grade myself. My teacher cried that day. I was afraid then, just as my students were on September 11,2001. I pray for the families, the heroes, and for 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 story5786.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: Like most NYers the wounds from that day are still very real. But me one of the most devasting parts was when the hospital I work at, which had been told we were to be the burn trauma center for the rescued victims, was informed there would be no survivors to send 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 story4471.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 64.12.96.8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: Florida,November 25,2002 Ese tragico dia estuve trabajando,cuando un companero bajo al lugar donde estabamos y comento que un avion habia chocado contra una de las Torres Gemelas,en esos momentos pense que se trataba de un accidente de un pequeno avion,eso fue a la hora del primer choque,luego este mismo amigo,nuevamente trajo otra noticia,que otro avion habia chocado contra la otra Torre,en ese momento se me vino a la cabeza mi hermano Alberto Morey que trabaja en el edificio de Met Life,pense que se trataba de un ataque terrorista,lo presenti,ya que vengo de un pais donde vivi 12 anos de esta cobarde guerra que declaro el terrorismo al Estado Peruano,y se el miedo que se siente ante estos ataques,pense en mi hermano ya que el trabaja de Delivery,pense que el podia estar en esa zona,luego subi al Hall del resort donde trabajo y pude en ese momento ver como caia la primera Torre,se me salieron una lagrimas gruesas ver esos edificios tan hermosos venirse abajo,pero lo que mas dolio,fue ver a tanta gente saltar,gente inocente que estaban en el lugar equivocado y a la hora equivocada,yo estuve en las Torres Gemelas en cuatro oportunidades cuando vivia en New York,ese dia fue tan doloroso,ya que tenia una serie de sentimientos encontrados,por tanto dano causado por esta gente sin patria,sin corazon,sin alma,sin respeto a la vida humana,en fin este es el mundo en el que nos toca vivir,pienso que la manera de acabar con tanto odio,es dar una pequena extra milla en nuestras vidas y tenderle la mano al que esta a nuetro lado,hacerle sentir que estamos ahi para brindarle apoyo en el momento que lo necesite,sin pensar en una retribucion,mis oraciones al altisimo por todas las victimas de ese fatidico dia,que en paz descansen Dios los bendiga. Raul Morey 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 story8678.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. 2002-11-25 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 24.27.226.208 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: Our school principal came to tell each teacher personally about what had happened. She asked us not to tell the students, and since I teach young ones, I didn't. Several, however, could tell that we were upset about something. At lunch, several of us gathered and had prayer. I volunteered to keep the students in my class to watch a movie because I really couldn't handle watching details of it at school--I didn't want to break down in tears in front of the students. When I did finally arrive home after picking up my 5 month old son, I burst into tears and cried off and on all evening while watching news coverage. It was overall one of the hardest days to endure of my life. I wanted to run home and be with my family and never leave the house, as many of us did. We teachers really didn't attempt to teach anything else that day because WE couldn't handle it. 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 story1432.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-08-23 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 66.119.34.39 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: "We're at war!", words spoken with such despair by my mother on the phone, is my foremost recollection of 9/11. My morning routine typically consisted of getting up with my daughters and sending them off to school, then reading the paper while watching "Today". On this particular morning, however, I decided to go back to bed. (My husband's birthday was the day before. Since he had to work second shift on his natal day, I waited up for him. Hence, the going back to bed.) When I awoke the second time, my husband and I shared breakfast, talked about how we would celebrate his birthday in grand style on the 12th (since he also had to pull a shift on the 11th; he's a sheriff's lieutenant, by the way) and he went about his task of refurbishing a shed outside. I puttered away in the house, still with the TV off. Then the phone rang. This was the end of normalcy. "With who? Where?" were my exasperated responses to my mom's news. "Are you watching it? Turn on the TV!" She cried. When I asked which station, she blurted out, "Any!" And there it was: the smoking skyline of New York. It was hard to tell at first what wasn't on fire; mom thought bombs were being dropped. We remained silent on the line while we each stared at our respective screens. The World Trade Centers had been hit. Then she told me a piece of unsettling news: my brother, who was celebrating his own birthday with a little weekend getaway to New York, stayed an extra day and was in those very towers less than 24 hours prior to this atrocity. "Oh my God! Is he home? Is he safe?" Yes, I was told, his flight was nearly cancelled due to bad weather but made it out very late Monday evening. Promising to stay in touch with her, I hung up. I needed my husband to see this. I ran out to the shed, yelling how New York looked like a scene from "Independence Day". Only it wasn't aliens doing the devestation; it was humans. We were riveted to the TV for the next several hours, til my husband had to go into work. I worried for him, thinking that surely the Sheriff's Department would be doubly busy that night. Uniforms never get to stay on the hanger. I debated getting my girls from school but figured they were OK.I decided to do what I had planned on doing: picking up my husband's favorite pizza, his birthday meal of choice, at a carry-out place in Milwaukee some 40 miles away. It was near the airport. Quite unnerving. The car radio played no music; only talk. How could such a gorgeous day have such a terrible pall cast over it? What-ifs raced through my head: what if they close the city and I'm stuck here? How will I get to my kids? Funny how the mind works. Police cars were everywhere and newscarriers were hawking special editions of the Journal/Sentinel on street corners. I didn't get one. I made my journey there and back without incident, save for the pounding in my chest and the wondering of what was yet to come. It was on the ride home that I noticed the American flags, draping from houses and businesses alike. It was still there, just like in the song. And we would be too, a little shaken but we'd regroup. My daughters were home by 3:30 and once I had them back in my sight, breathing came a little easier. 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 story1930.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 managed a night shift marketing concern for American Express who had offices at the world trade center. I was required to be at work at 10 am. My clock was set for 9am. The first thing I heard was that an aircraft had hit the first tower. As a person with a commercial pilot's rating I thought finally some idiot has finally done it, flown a small aircraft into one of the towers. Having flown for years around the area up and down the Hudson corridor at a required altitude several hudred feet below the World Trade Towers , I remember with pride looking up to see these beautiful constructions as I proudly took friends and loved ones past that site. As a pilot safey is the primary consideration. The rules are simple. Do not bend metal and above all else even under dire conditions... never never ever bend people. Three minutes later I instantly watched live on TV hundreds die. A split second later my TV went dead. I did not have cable. I knew what had transpired. For 4 days I couod not contact those I love. My TV went black. I saw hundreds die instantly in an act that went against every thing my life stood for. I knew then that it was a terrorist situation. As a pilot I knew people that had died flying in the past, but this was different. I had employees ,friends and friends of family that worked a primary job at the Towers. MY best friends pregnant daughter was in building #7. Another employee was MIA for two weeks. We thought she might be dead. I will not metnion the countless others I knew that worked there. I was so mad I went to work saying these bastards will not change the way I conduct my day. When I got to work near an airport I walked in the door to find people gathered around a cable TV in the the lower level health club weeping saying that the first tower had fallen,moments later the second one fell. Eventually the company sent us all home. No business could be conducted as every client was asking our employees what was going on. They eventually sent us home.I was one of the last that went. As a child terrorism from the Mideast had impacted my family. We were told that there would be no negotiation with such individuals in the event that one of us were kidnapped. It made me feel worthless and angry . One of my fathers business partner's grandson was abducted and an ear sent in the mail as proof as the terrorists' sincerety. We were frightened but filled with resolve that we would not give one dammed inch against those who would attempt to adjust our way of life. I left work and went to the nearest hospital to give blood in the vain hope that some had lived. The next day I climbed the hill in my town to watch th fires burn and the plume of smoke rise to 2-3000 feet and create an anvil an that height and drift slightly to the east, knowing that poeple where still dying. It was a strangly surreal day. From the top of my mountain flew a flag. Flowers were placed in the highest elevation marker. People with newborn children in thier backpacks handed binoculars to those who arrived to watch. Echos of children laughing and unanware, playing climbing the mountain glanced off the hillside. My cell phone did not work except for execpt for long distance. I call a friend in the midwest and asked him to pray for us. For the next year there were funerals every day. For a YEAR. Three years later I can begin to talk about it. The impact im my life exists to this day. I believe that the rest of the US has forgotten and gone on. I will never forget those fathers and firefighters, those employees and business partners that I miss to this very day. Yes it is years later. I have taken friends to ground zero under the requirement that they promise me that they will do something nurturing and loving for themselves to offset the damage that will be done by the visit. I miss everyday those who sacrificed health and security and hope that I do not give in to those that would do us harm. 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 story10385.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. 2004-01-28 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 24.44.83.140 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: My 15 year old daughter, Ehryn had spent the night at a friends house Monday the 10th, 2001. At 7 am on the 11th she called me and woke me up and said. "Mom, someone is bombing the World Trade Center and the Pentagon!" I got up and turned on the TV and did not leave it for 2 days. When my daughter came home from school, she was quite upset as they had a television on all day in all her classes and she watched the WTCs go doen over and over again. That night she asked me to sleep with her and I am a single mom, so we spent that night together talking and the next 2 nights after that. We remember how quiet the skies were, and Ehryn asked me some very difficult questions over the next few days: Mom, are we going to bomb Afganistan? Who are their allies? Are China and Russia friendly with Afganistan? Do they have nuclear bombs? Why did this happen? What I told her those first few days was that I did not have the answers but that I would stay with her and keep her safe. What I also did was to start talking to her about my feelings about US foreign policy in the Middle East, and about Peace. This is where we are today: we both see any further violence as a cycle that will be hard to stop; and we truly feel that America, through this tragedy, has been given an incredible oppurtunity to make some deep changes that will effect the future of the world for all of humankind. We are from Connecticut and I was informed that my girl friend from high school in Madison Connecticut was a flight attendent on the plane that was seen hitting the second tower. Not a day goes by that we do not think about this horrible event and we have cried a lot of tears, for the lives lost. L.N.Bhraonain 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 story5851.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: After snoozing for forty mintues, much to the dismay of my roomate, eating a quick bowl of instant oatmeal and shoving a notebook and pen into my backback I hit the sidewalk. Destinaton:Statistics 100,8:00AM, a college student's nightmare. My notes dated 9-11 were slightly sloppier than normal--as my eyes drooped my numbers looped, and grew fainter. About half way into the hour and fifteen minute lecture I looked into my backpack for my cell phone, which at the time served not only as a mode of commuication, but a watch. Drat. I'd fogotten it. When the dismissal bell reeled me out of my semi-sleeping state for good, I decided to use the fifteen minutes inbeteween class to run back to my dorm for my phone. "Scary that I feel so lost without it," I thought. To my surprise, my roomate was not still buried under her covers with the shades pulled tight. "Abby, look," and she pointed at the television. I'm not sure if I saw the planes crash into the towers live, or if it was a replay, but the attack had just happened. I sank onto the armrest of the couch and stared at the screen. They played the planes crashing into the Twin Towers over and over again. There were worse nightmare than 8:00AM classes, and this one was coming true. I started dialing, but so did everyone else in Champain. I managed to get ahold of my brother, also a student on campus, who had watched the planes crash live on the big screen TV in the union. "Have you talked to mom and dad," I asked? "Not yet." When I did get ahold of my parents, both school teachers who had spent the day trying to handle the crisis appropriately, I aske my Dad what to think, as at this point I was having difficulty doing so for myself. He was amazing calm. No shouts for revenge, no hysteria. Of course he was horrifed, devestated, and bewildered, but not once did I see the intelligence I have always admired in him waver. After a few days had passed, I continued talking to my Dad. He, just like the minister at my church (although we were not attending at the time I read a sermon she delivered later) believed that as a country we must foucs on answering questions such as why and how, instead of demands, such as get revenge, and fight back. The roots of terrorism are deep, and merely bombing Afganistan out of recognition would not solve the problem. My church is the Unitarian Universalist Society of Geneva, in IL, look it up--the sermon is on the site--it explains my feelings much better than I can. The rest of the day is hard to remember. I do, however, remember a significant differnce in the way in which my professors handeled the attacks. In every class, studnets were trying to piece together the story, spreading rumors and quelling rumors simultaneoulsy. In my English class there was a fourth plane still in flight, in psych class the next target was Chapmagin, for intelligence reasons. In most classes my teachers decided that discussion about the attacks was more advantageous than lecture. These were true educators. In only one class were the attacks not even mentioned by the instructor. That hour and fifteen minutes were some of the longest of my life. I did called my ex-boyfreind of four years. "I love you," we said. I was not unlike the majority of the country, checking in on loved-ones and letting poeple know that I cared. Campus was alive. Everyone was talking. I spent the night in deep conversation with my best freind, an exchange student from Australian. It was a frightening time to be so far from home. When the newspapers and magazines began printing pictures, it was the ones of the people jumping out the windows that disturbed me the most. Recently, a fire-fighter who is a friend of mine showed me a picture of the truck he used after driving from IL to NY to help. In the dust someone had written "God Bless America." Nine months after the attacks, and my skin still crawled, my eyes watered. I can only hope that the world finds peace. My thoughts go out to all of the victims of September 11th. That you, as indiviual, good poople should have to suffer truly saddens me. I can only hope, and as I get older and more informed, do, my best to aswer the question WHY, and with this answer hopefully we can put an end to this suffering in America, and around the world. Let there never again be such a nightmarish call to 911. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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