323 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: It was a beautiful September day. I left for work at 8:25 am like always. This departure time would force me to be fashionably late but this was nothing new either. My mornings were always routine and I certainly wouldn?t want to throw someone else off in his or her day by my being on time. Shortly after starting my computer and opening my email program, I received a ?Breaking News? email. The email stated that a small plane had hit the World Trade Center. My first thoughts were, ?What an idiot, he must have flown too close.? I then felt guilty as I realized that the pilot might have suffered a heart attack or something. I opened MSNBC?s web site and saw an early picture of what was happening there. What a large whole for a small plane. I shrugged and made a mental note to follow the story when I got home. I then quickly settled into my work. A short while later, a co-worker entered the room and asked if anyone saw that two planes had hit the WTC. I corrected him by saying I had read the article and it was only one plane. He said, ?No, there has been another one. They think they are hijacked commercial jets.? My stomach sank, my jaw dropped and I felt myself go numb. As the realization of terrorism washed over me, I frantically tried to get into MSNBC?s web page and couldn?t. My God, this was it. It was really happening. I called my husband and he was watching on a TV someone had wheeled into his lab. He kept asking me if I was ok, as it was obvious I was in distress. After we hung up my baby sister called in tears. She told me the Pentagon had been hit. I started to panic. Our country was under attack! Suddenly, I felt completely vulnerable in a four-story building. I remember turning without thought to look out the window. ?Could there be a plane coming to destroy my office building?? I thought. Next, she told me that people were jumping to their death. She screamed as the first building crumbled. In shock, I looked around. My co-workers were working like there was nothing going on. I wanted to run. I needed to find my girls and make sure they were ok. However, no one else was leaving. My manager returned to his morning meeting and life was going on, as usual. How strange was that? Were they all oblivious? I walked to the ladies room as I began to hyperventilate. At the window, I gazed up at the sky and said a prayer for all of those in the midst of this chaos. My mind swirled as I tried to make sense of something that would never make any sense to me. How could anyone do such a thing? As I cried there alone in that window, I knew our lives were changed forever. 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 story9877.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 in my 6th grade art class, I do not remember what exactly I was doing but I remember that the principal made an announcment on the speaker and imformed the school about the attack. It was about 11 or so when the whole school was aware of what had happened. When I got home, my sister had told me that my father was working in the Pentagon at the time of the attack. I was extremly worried but then we later found out that he was in the basement on the other side of the building. I was relieved and I wasn't concerned about my mother because I knew she does not work any where near the Pentagon. September 11 is a day that no one will never be able to forget. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story20848.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: Well I was only in the 4th grade at the times of the attacks. I remember it was during lunch time. A lot of the parents were walking in and out of the cafeteria and picking up kids. So i finally got up and asked why? And a teacher told me there had been an attck on the world trade center. I didn't even know what it was. I got home and my mom was really upset... When my step dad got home we went to go and get some food. And trying to get off base wasn't really that hard.. But when we tried to get back on it was crazy.. Every single gate but two were closed... He explained everything to me and after that I felt so disgusted with the fact that someone hated America sooo much to do something so bad like this... I mean these were innocent people... They never did anything so terrible to deserve a death like that... And now because of that soldiers are going over to Iraq and fightring for there lives.. But I am proud to say that my brother will be going over there in November.. 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 story11760.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 got up to go to work and walked about of my building at just about 9 AM. As I walked down the street, I heard two men talking. One said, "I can understand one plane, but two?" I had no idea what they were talking about. I stopped in at the local deli to pick up something, and a slightly disheveled man listening to the radio on his walkman looked at me and said, "I can't believe it." He said, "Two planes just crashed into the World Trade Center." Disbelieving, I ran into work (across the street) and asked a friend if she had heard anything about a plane crash. She said yes. I ran home and turned on the tv and there it was. After about 30 minutes, I went back to work. Everyone was in shock. I spent the morning emailing and calling friends to see if they were ok, and dashing home from time to time to watch TV. Our internet connection and phone lines were spotty. The buildings came down, and then about an hour later we all went home. I spent the rest of the day watching the news and calling/emailing people, trying to see who was ok. If you looked down my street (1st Ave), you could see the smoke, which was about 6 miles south. That night, and for the next week or so, it smelled like burning plastic outside. 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 story46.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I had to see my attorneys on Broadway in NYC that morning,only a short distance away from the world Trade center.I would have been in the city at about 8:00 am. I decided on the last moment to cancel and see my orthopedic surgeon instead. As I waited to be picked up my neice yelled out,"Aunty G look at the tv, a plane just crashed into the World Trade Center. I was stunned, I ran to the tv and saw the building ablaze, heard the reporting and asked how could this be? what is that airplane doing flying in the no fly zone? My question was to be answered immediately. As we looked at the tv, another plane zoomed right into the WTC. I did not know that it was a terrorist attack, but I was certain that that was no normal accident and I told my family this. I said " God this is World War 111. I was in shock.I had family and relatives on flights and working in the vicinity of the WTC, I was scared stiff.My own children was to have flown on that day and I deciced to leave their flight on the original date. I was grateful that I had decided to cancel my appointment in the city. My heart goes out to the thousands of innocent victims, their families, children who lost parents, parents who lost children, lost businesses, investments and livelihoods.To the many brave servicemen and women, volunteers and all those who selflessly gave of themselves, their time and resources, I say thank you and god bless. to the then Mayor Mr.Guiliani, Govenor Pataki, Senators Schumer and Clinton for being there for those who were so tremendously affected by this chilling event. To our special heroes, a very special thank you. to the various , reporting staffs thank you. New Yorkers and others we MUST STAY STRONG!We MUST STAY FOCUS! We MUST STAY FREE!We MUST CONQUER!!! 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 story3623.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. 205.188.209.38 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 drivers ed when I heard the bad news about the World Trade Center Towers falling. I was pretty devastated at the fact that two monumental towers had collapsed. So I got to class and I waited for some more information on the terroist attack. When suddenly more news came that the Pentagon had been hit by a highjacked plane also. So after everything I went home and watch eveything on tv. 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 story2373.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. 208.31.154.100 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: On September 11, 2000, it was a normal day in school until I had to go to woods class, the teacher had the T.V turned on. All I saw was two big buildings and a airplane flying towards them. Right away I ask my teacher what those tall buildings were. He told me what had happened. I was in shock. I didnt know what to say. My whole school was talking about it. When I got home I turned on my T.V and found out a lot more than I had heard in school. When I started getting into it, the first thing that came to my mind was war. I didnt know that people had died and that they hijacked the planes. I can remember visiting my dad in North Carolina, and as we drove there on the highway, we always had the perfect view of the World Trade centers. The next day I found out that the flight number of the plane that crashed into the centers was the same plane that I took to California eight weeks before this tragedy occured. After September 11, 2000, people had writing on their cars saying "we'll miss u," to express their patriotism. Since September 11, things have changed a lot. People are very scared to fly planes. There is twice as much security now, than there was before September 11. The patriotism is very high now too. People have lost their lives, and a war has begun. My life has changed a little bit because I know people whose family members dies that day. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story8560.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-10-22 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 24.60.58.139 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: Sitting in front of the television at work, this was a day everyone in the world would never forget. My heart sank to the ground. Feeling so useless, with a feeling of wanting to be in New York to help with this tradgedy. There are no words that could not describe the feeling I had. Watching the planes plunge into the towers, and watching people actually falling from the top floors to the bottom. This was a scene of undiscribable horror. How can anyone do such a thing. They took so many lives of innocent people. 9/11 will always be a day to remember. A year later we stand tall, and very proud of our country. To those who lost their love ones on that day, and to those who risked their lives to save humanity I dedicate a special prayer to them. I think we are all considered heros in one way or another. We all stand tall in unity, and we lend a helping hand to our fellow man. May God Bless The USA. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story6259.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-12 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 152.163.188.6 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 family and I were living in Israel for two years while my husband participated in a fellowship there. On September 11th, I was 8 1/2 months pregnant with my third child. I had gone to pick up my other 2 children from school (Israel is 7 hours ahead of the east coast of the US) as normal. We were in the car driving another child and our friend, her father home when my cell phone rang. My friend picked the phone and told me with total disbelief in his voice that it was my cousin from Tel Aviv calling to tell us that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center. We rushed home, I put the kids in front of a video because I didn't want them to see the news, and I went into the bedroom to watch CNN. All I kept thinking was "Now I understand how all our family and friends in America feel every time there is a terrorist attack in Israel." I was in a total panic about friends and family who worked near ground zero, and of course we could not reach anyone because all the international phone lines were jammed with callers. I thought for sure I would go into labor early (thankfully I didn't). Nothing felt safe anymore. It felt like the world was coming to an end. 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 story4163.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. 151.196.24.73 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: THe morning of Septemeber 11 my dad woke me up to watch the news and i was shocked by what happend and i saw live the hit of the second Plane. We both (me and my father) thought that is was some kinda of movie or something like a joke in the news but we realised after a while it was true and we felt deeply wiht the one that lost there lifes. The sad part on it was that the next day i found out that one of my friends at college got attacked and got into a fight because he is from Afghanistan, and even worser is that an old man told me to leave this country since i am one of them. Which made me sad because like him i am breathing the same Air, like him I am seing the same stars and like him i am living on the same mother earth like him. So i saw that he will not change his mind about me and i told him that he was right and walked away but i knew at least that i was the one who will win becasue i was smarter and walked away. 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 story6992.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. 67.112.143.168 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: As I was getting ready for work, I was listening to the morning news. I was horrified when I saw the first tower on fire. But then as I watched, the second plane hit and then the horrific destruction of both towers. I cried all the way to work and most of the day, as did most of the people I worked with. I am still so sad for the lives that were ruined that day. In a flash, our world rocked and it was changed forever. God bless America, and please guide the leaders of this wonderful country as they make the choices that must be made to keep this country safe and free. 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 story5659.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. 205.188.209.38 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: It would be hard for any American to forget where they were that day or what they were doing when they heard the news that two planes had just crashed into the World Trade Center. I remember it clearly because I had just lined 16 little children up to go to lunch. We were walking down the hall in our neat line trying to remember the rules after being in school only a week. Another teacher stopped me and asked me if I heard the news. "What news?" I politely asked as 16 first graders waited for their teacher to continue on down the hall. "The World Trade Center just exploded." She said through teary, confused eyes. "What happened???" I asked with some alarm, "How did it explode?" She dabbed a tissue at her eyes and replied "I really don't know right now, but I'm going to go find out. I have family there." I thought of my cousin that lived in New York, and tried not to show any fear as I lead the class down the hall. By the time I got to the lunchroom, I had silent tears leaking down my face because I knew that what I had heard was only the tip of the iceberg. When I went back to my room, I was glad that the television set that had so recently been wired worked. I gathered all the facts as quickly as I could while another teacher came in and stood beside me. We just stared blankly and I thought about my daughter who had turned 5 months old on this date. When I learned that another attack had taken place on the Pentagon, I rushed to call my Mom. You see, my Aunt and Uncle both work in D.C., and my other cousin goes to school there (these are the parents to my cousin that lives in New York). When I spoke to my Mom, it was hard to keep the worry out of my voice when I asked what in the world was happening. I asked if it was a mistake, was everyone in our family okay? She said she had just gotten off the phone with my Uncle and they were fine, but now my Aunt was stuck in D.C. traffic and she called my cousin and told her not to leave the apartment in New York. I had one more call to make. My husband at Langley Air Force Base. He was fine, but they were on a threat status now and I really couldn't talk to him long. By that time I realized I hadn't eaten anything, and it was time to go pick up the children (what I really wanted to do was to go home and pick up my own child from daycare and hold on to her as tight as I could). How could I compose myself after this and go on teaching for the rest of the day? What was I going to say to the class? Should I say anything? As an adult, I had a hundred questions. How was I going to answer theirs? I decided to tell them what had happened as soon as we got back to class. It was so hard to look at all of their little faces and explain what terrorism is, but I knew that I was doing the right thing by being as staight forward with the news as I could on their level. It is never easy being a teacher, but on that day I felt like somehow the innocence was ripped from my classroom, and I knew that nothing I could say or do would ever make it right again. However, I was sure going to try. The next day, as the children marched into my classroom, America the Beautiful could be heard coming from my room. 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 story3505.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. 68.99.160.18 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 my car on the way to work, when I turned on the radio and heard about the first plane hitting. It was about 8:20 am. At first I just thought it was an accident. I didn't think that the plane was hijacked. That thought never crossed my mind. By the time I got to work, the second plane hit and that's when I realized it wasn't just an accident. America was under attack. I was astonished. I couldn't believe that anyone would take so many innocent lives. I thought about the people on the planes and in the Trade Center towers and I couldn't even begin to imagine how frightened they were. After all 4 planes went down, everyone at my work gathered around in the front of the building in a circle. We held hands and prayed for all those involved. Now, I try not to take things for granted. You never know how much time you have left with the people you love. I am truly thankful for all the blessings in my life. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story5813.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: WTC 9-11-01 Friends: I was blessed in the midst of unspeakable tragedy last week, with an opportunity to participate in the rescue and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center. With the blessing, support, and encouragement of my employer, Lafarge, North America, I left very early Thursday morning, and drove to D.C. where I boarded Amtrak for the 3 hour ride to Penn Station in New York. I arrived before nightfall, and went immediately to Broadway and 14th street where the security net around the area was located. With my Blue Circle hardhat, and purposely dirty work clothes already on, I was able to get clearance to the site. At the exact same time, two crane operators from Bay Cranes, were driving in to relieve the crew that had just set up a 50 ton crane at the base of the explosion. The NYPD asked them to give me a ride. Sickeningly, and amazingly, we drove directly to the remains of Tower 2 on Church Street. Less than 12 hours after I had left my home in Norris, I stood in the midst of the most unspeakable sight I have ever witnessed. The airborne dust was so thick you could swipe your hand through the air, and grab it. The acrid smell, horrific. As one FBI agent later told me, "that is the smell of several thousand people on low bake, for two days". I am proud to say that, within 10 minutes of arrival , I helped Chad,(the 'oiler') of the Liehber crane, erect a large American flag from the cab of the huge crane. We took extra care (and a lot of duct tape) to make sure that she flew upright straight, and proud. After that important job was done, I grabbed a shovel, and jumped in to work with an enormous group of firefighter, NYPD, and EMT's, shoveling ash and debris off Vesey street, which was totally covered and impassable. 5 hours later, we were done, right down to the last pebble, and loaders and excavators could then make there way to the pile of rubble. In cleaning the road, we dumped every bit of debris into thousands of 5 gallon buckets, which were then sifted through by other volunteers, so as to not cast away anything of personal, medical, or evidentiary value. At that point, like a huge wave, we all moved onto the smoldering rubble, and began the task of moving untold tons of material, 5 gallons at a time. The work was gruesome, but fulfilling. As one of only a handful of 'infiltrators' in the area, I felt incredibly lucky to be amongst the most dedicated and courageous people I have ever known. I consider myself to be a hard worker, but I have never seen anything like this band of firefighters (FDNY on their backs) that had worked for 48 hours without stopping, one handful and one bucket at a time. At 3am, a sprinkle turned into a horrific downpour. No one (except me) ever looked up, even for a moment. Within 20 minutes large streams of water ran down the rubble pile, carrying with them the unspeakable. Still, no one stopped, slowed, or wavered. At 4:30am (now Friday morning) the Chief called us off the hill. Slippery conditions, exhaustion, and anger at the spite of the horrible weather, made injuries too numerous. I walked across the street to the Hilton Millennium hotel, now bombed out, with no windows, and at least 4 inches of ash covering everything in the lobby. Cops went up to the seventh floor, in total darkness, in a building that was still listed as unstable, and raided the linen room. They brought down sheets, blankets, and towels for us all. I spent the next two hours in a luxurious, clean, Hilton bathrobe, sitting in a swanky dust enveloped chair, in the lobby of what two nites before had been a $650 a nite hotel. During our 'time-out', someone (it was too dark to see who) sat at the grand piano, and played beautiful music until dawn. It was a jet-black morning, with the smoke and haze now made worse and soggier by the torrential rain. It was darker at 7am, than it had been at midnight. It wasn't eerie, it was scary. The ever-present ash, made up of pulverized concrete, paper, glass, and American citizens, was now a gooey muck. The muck clogged the drains, and we all waded thigh deep through a grey and black river of total destruction. At this point I moved to Tower 7 about 3 blocks away, where they were short equipment operators. This is the building that was the third to collapse, giving time to evacuate all inside. 5 gallon buckets weren't needed here, but the going was tremendously slow. I ran a large Cat loader, but the twisted metal was difficult to handle. Twenty-ton dumps were often leaving with 2 tons of debris because of the nature of the metal and support steel. At 11 am Friday, I left the sight to find a hotel, take a shower, and sleep. As I walked past all the media tents toward the exit, hundreds of New Yorkers stood by the barricades. When I crossed the threshold, they grabbed me, hugged me, gave me water, flowers, apples, beer, or anything else I could hold. It was amazing. I got my shower, laid down for two hours, then went back, feeling guilty for having left in the first place. I went back to Tower One and rejoined the bucket brigade. Four lines, at least one hundred deep, each handing off bucket after bucket. The continuous noise of back up alarms, hydraulic cutters, and heavy machinery soon was drowned out by the roar of a pack of F-16's. They flew low, and the whole pile vibrated. The President was soon to arrive. An hour later, about 30 minutes before Bush was to come to the site, the Chief called everyone down, and told any one who was not a New York firefighter to go one block up to 1 Liberty Plaza which is the HQ for Nasdaq and Merrill Lynch. It is a huge, beautiful building, directly across the street from the WTC. It now has a serious buckle at the 32 floor. As we moved up there, without a word, or any direction, each person grabbed a shovel, or with gloved hands only, and began cleaning up the Plaza from the 5 inches of muck, dust, and broken glass that were everywhere. Two hours later, by the time the President had left, it was spotless. Prior to the Presidents arrival, the FDNY had determined that the rescue portion of the effort was to be called off. Bush arrived at the perfect time to give these beaten-up and devastated heroes a lift. I knew it was coming, but many of us teared up when through the dust and destruction a block away, we heard the 'reflectos' (what cops and other emergency personnel call the firemen, because of all the reflective gear they wear) start chanting USA, USA, USA, USA. I will never forget that moment as long as I live. By 9pm, after milling around for an hour or so, I went back to the hotel, with the intention of heading home early Saturday morning. I slept hard, and awoke refreshed at 3am. I took my bag, checked out, and went back down. As I was walking in, legions of firefighters were walking out. I had left the site twice in 36 hours; they had been there 90 hours straight. The blank anguish, sorrow, and exhaustion on their faces, as they left without the mates they had searched so desperately to find, was heartbreaking. Commendably, not one member of the media horde approached any of them. The ultimate token of respect. I worked till around 8am as a 'sifter', watching with a morgue worker to try to insure that when the heavy equipment that was now being used dropped their load into the truck beds, it did not contain human debris. I can tell you only that there is one hell of a lot of difference in a rescue effort, and a recovery effort. As I left the site for the last time Saturday morning, I noticed from several blocks away that something was different at the entryway. I got closer, and on a beautiful Saturday morning with a brilliant blue sky, what had been a hundred well wishers, was now in the thousands. The police literally had to open a wall of people in order for me and a Chicago fireman I was walking out with, to leave. The cheers, tears, hugs, and outpouring of love and thanks was as indescribable as the scene 10 blocks back. I felt horrible about it, remembering what I had seen 5 hours earlier as the firefighters left under cover of smokey, sickening darkness, alone and underappreciated. As I got to Penn station and traveled down the escalator, and army of hardhats were riding up the escalator having just arrived. I still had on work gear, and was wearing my Tennessee Volunteers t-shirt, and the calls of "hey, Tennessee, where do we go", "hey Tennessee, how do we get there", were numerous. People had traveled hundreds of miles under difficult circumstances, but they had gotten there. As I waited in the station for my train to leave, it occurred to me that I had spent over 30 hours at the site, and with the exception of the first moments there, working with Chad, the crane oiler and my flag raising partner, I had never entered into a conversation with anyone. A sentence here, a simple request to someone I didn't know for a bucket, or a thank you to a Red Cross worker. That was it. In the most organized chaos anyone has ever know, I never shook a hand, exchanged a name, or engaged in a simple 'hello'. In thinking back on it, I now realize that it was not just me. No one spoke. You would see firemen sitting together, looking straight ahead. Cops working like dogs assembling wheel barrows in the rain, without any conversation with the person next to them. Food servers and support personnel, wandering the site, administering aid without asking what was wrong. One of the many life changing and valuable lessons I learned on this journey, was that in times of terrible trouble and crisis - Americans just KNOW what to do. Aboard the train, just outside of Newark, I glanced out the Amtrak window, and for the first time, saw the new, devil-etched skyline of our nation's greatest city. Horribly disfigured and still covered in the thick, evil smoke that we all breathed for 3 days. I took no solace in the site, no pride or pleasure in knowing I had helped, no gratitude that I was out of it. I thought only that America has now changed. That despite the pleas to 'get back to normal', there will not be a 'normal' for many years to come. And for me, there will never again be a 'normal', because over 5000 people, 400 heroic cops and firefighters, and those two magnificent buildings that always represented something very special to me, are gone forever. Don Nathan 9-16-01 865-660-2166 DNathan163@aol.com 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 story1254.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I'll never forget it. One of our customers called us, asking if we were OK. We asked why, and were told to turn on the news ASAP. The horror that awaited us on the TV was unspeakable. At first we thought it was simply an accident. Then, out of nowhere, came the second plane. A couple of us grabbed the office camera and headed out to the corner of 26th. St. & 5th. Ave., where we had a clear view of the WTC. I'd never seen so many people out on the streets before - it looked like everyone who worked in the area came down for a better look, as if what was being shown on TV wasn't real and that when they came outside the towers would be there as they always were. Even from a distance, we could see that it was bad. Very bad. We knew that words wouldn't begin to describe what we were seeing, so we took a couple of quick shots and went back to the office to contact our outside sales force, and make sure all wer OK before calling our corporate headquarters (located in another state). We had some very tense moments as one of our salesmen wasn't responding to our phone calls or messages. We have many clients whose offices were in the Towers, and we were concerned that he may have gone to meet with one of them that day. Fortunately, he called us not long afterwards to say that he was OK, that he had been on the LIRR into the city and that his train had been turned around. In what I can only describe as shock and fear, we watched the news as one by one the towers fell. I tried several times to call my husband at home in Brooklyn, without success. Then I tried calling my parents in CA - got through no problem. They said that they had been able to reach my husband, and that they would call him back for me. I guess what they teach us to do in an earthquake (call someone outside the area) works just as well in situations like this. Go figure! At around noon the decision was made to start letting people head for home. We spoke with the president of our company, who said that if we couldn't make it home that he would make whatever hotel arrangements he could for us. After speaking with my husband via my parents again, I made the decision to walk to the Brooklyn Bridge, where my husband would be able to meet me on the Brooklyn side. I left the office at around 2:00p and, like so many others did that day, made my way down to the bridges of Lower Manhattan to try and get home. As if the events of that morning weren't enough, I saw things on my walk that both scared me and made me proud to live in NYC. One of the first things I saw as I headed down Park Ave. was the sight of a refrigerated delivery truck being escorted by NYPD. I'm not going to say what the contents of that truck were, but it was one of many that I saw that day. As I got closer to my destination, I saw that people - business owners and residents alike - were offering whatever aid they could to those of us walking home. Water, phones, restrooms, a place to rest - it felt so incredibly good knowing that people were willing to help total strangers. I continued on, and eventually arrived at the lower end of Chinatown. There were many streets blocked off, and so I approached a policeman to ask which way I should go to get to the Brooklyn Bridge. As I walked up, there was a couple talking to him. The woman was asking him where they could go to get closer to Ground Zero. He looked at them like they had completely lost their minds, and told them this was as close as they were going to get. They walked off, and he turned to me saying "Why on earth would anyone want to get closer!?!?!?" He then told me which streets to take, and told me to be careful. I didn't think about what he really meant, until I got to the Brooklyn Bridge. The northern side appeared OK, but to get where I needed to go I had to cross under it and walk up the southern side (the side closest to Lower Manhattan) a couple of blocks to access the roadway. As soon as I crossed under the bridge, I was greeted with a sight that took my breath away. Ash, half charred papers, and other debris covered the area. Taking the first step into that wasteland was so hard, but I didn't have any choice if I was to get home. I walked past a man's shirt, which was lying in the ash next to a woman's shoe. There were countless pieces of paper, most partially burnt, some with peoples names still legible. A block away from me, shadowed by the billowing smoke, I passed a hospital. There was a line down the block of people waiting to get inside - some to donate blood or offer whatever help they could, others not injured enough to be treated right away. After what seemed an eternity, I made it onto the Brooklyn-bound roadway and was greeted with the most wonderful sight in the whole world - an MTA bus, waiting to take me (and about 4 dozen others) across the bridge to safety. I was never so happy to be home in my husbands arms as I was that night! We'd only been married a few months at that point, and the thought of being apart from him that day was almost unbearable. That's my story. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: My husband had left with my daughter to take her to school. I was in the livingroom with my son just turning on the television to catch the end of the morning news show as I usually do on school days. I had a room full of day care children and saw the replay of the first plane hitting. I instantly called my mother in Indiana. While on the phone with her, the second plane hit. I remember saying "Oh no" and my mother, who works in a school and did not have a television, asked what happened. I explained that a second plane hit. I was torn between picking up my daughter from school or allowing her to spend the day there with her classmates. I called the school and was told they would continue on with classes to keep a sense of normalacy in the children's lives. I waited until the end of school to pick her up. It was the longest day of my life. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story3712.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: My story begins on Saturday, September 8, 2001. I'm riding the B61 bus in Brooklyn, on my way to my mom's to deliver a birthday present that I purchased for her from a little shop located in the lobby of the World Trade Center. As the bus makes its turn off of Atlantic Avenue and on to Columbia, I have a perfect view of the towers. This is the point where I usually think to myself "I remember when I was in my late teens I used to look across and see the towers being built." This time a completely different thought goes through my mind. I remembered when the terrorist bombed the towers eight years earlier, and I thought "Can you imagine seeing the towers explode right before your eyes?" Three days later, that's exactly what I witnessed. I work in the downtown Manhattan area, only blocks away from the World Trade Center. When I got off the train Tuesday morning, and started walking up the stairs which lead outside, I could see mobs of people staring into the sky saying, "Oh my God!" I could not imagine what they could possibly have been looking at, and I was almost afraid to come out of the station to find out. I did eventually step out and took a look in that direction, and what I saw was unbelievable. There was this HUGH firey hole at the top of one of the towers. I stood there paralyzed watching. Finally I snapped out of it and started heading in the opposite direction towards work. Just as I turned away there was a horrendous explosion behind me, and the crowd of onlookers all started running and screaming. When I looked back, there was a big fireball coming from the second tower. I was haunted by my thought from three days ago, "Can you imagine seeing the towers explode right before your eyes?" Debris was flying in our direction. I ran as fast as I could. Soon after the debris settled, and we realized that it couldn't reach us, everyone stopped running and started staring back towards the WTC again. Now there was a hugh flaming hole in each of the towers. I thought that terrorists had somehow gotten into the buildings and planted bombs. Then I overheard people in the crowd saying, "Did you see that big plane crash into the building?" Others were saying, "I saw the plane that crashed into the first building." I felt that we were under attack, and I was terrified because I was surrounded by federal buildings which could be potentially the next target. Then someone shouted, "Look, there are people jumping out of the windows." I turned around and looked up and saw people, one by one, jumping to their deaths. They looked like little stick figures falling in slow motion, head first, feet towards the sky. One guy bounced off the side of the building. I couldn't look anymore. I quickly continued on to work, and when I got there, I broke down in tears. Our office building was evacuated, and I immediately headed home. When I arrived at my apartment and opened the door, I was greeted by my son who was hysterical and in tears. He grabbed me and hugged me so tight, then he told me, "Mommy, they're gone." I asked, "Whose gone?" He said, "The Twin Towers, they've both collapsed." I could not believe it then. I still can't believe it today, ten months later. The policemen, firemen and emergency service workers have been phenomenal in their resue efforts during this WTC crisis. They've shown selfless heroism, many making the ultimnate sacrafice, while attempting to save the lives of others. I've never been prouder. May God bless them and their families, as well as the victims, survivors, and their family and friends. 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 story892.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: i was working for white house realtors in white house, tn. i was the receptionist. and it was my job to open the office. we had a t.v. in our waiting area. and i was walking through doing my usual morning duties. starting coffee, unlocking the doors, turning on the t.v. the morning show was on. and i could hear bryant gumboul talking about a little plane that had hit a building in new york. i was thinking that is odd. certainly a plane can see this big o builing. so i go into the waiting room to see what he is talking about. and there is smoke coming from one of the twin towers. my desk there faced the t.v. so i go and call one of my co-workers. i tell her to turn on her t.v. and we are looking at this together and talking about it on the phone. we are saying how strange it is that a plane flew into this big building. we were thinking it was like a little passanger plane. and the news guys didn't know much at the time either. while we are talking we see this little dot in the back ground. and i ask my friend what is that? she says i don't know it looks like a plane. and i say it is a plane. it is gonna hit that tower. it is getting to close... then bam!!! it hits . we are both yelling oh my god .. did you see that? did you see that? what is causing these planes to hit these builings. we are thinking some strange force is pulling them into the builings. not for one second are we thinking someone is attacking us. then my boss comes in and says i heard on the radio what is going on. and little by little more employees are coming in. not going for coffee or to check their messages. just straight to the t.v. we are all standing around staring at the t.v. then someone mentions. i think we are under attack. we all just look at each other like what? then we here there is a possiblitiy that there are more planes that have been hi-jacked. i think oh no!!! my husband is working in washington dc. if we are under attack they will hit there next. my husband was working construction about 12 miles from dulles airport where one of the planes was hi-jacked. i run to the phone . to try and call his cell. but no one can get through at all. the cells are flooded with calls. finally i get through. i say are you ok. he is like yeah why??? he has no idea what has even happened or what is going on. i fill him in on what i know. they all run to a radio and listen. he was scheduled to fly home for a visit 2 days after the 11th. from dulles airport. i tell him get out of washington but don't get on a plane. he can't leave to come home for 2 more days. he rents a car to come home. you couldn't fly even if you wanted to. all airports were shut down for days. but who wanted to fly???? when he got home i had been in front of the t.v. for 48hrs straight. i couldn't take my eyes away. i had cried and been freightened for 2 days. when i saw him i just hugged him for like an hour. and thanked god i was not posting his picture up searching for him like i watched people do on t.v. for 2 days. now that we know the time line of all the flights i know where i was that whole day. i was dropping my 2 year old off a day care when the first plane hit. i was at work and watched the 2nd plane hit. i was calling my husband begging him to get out of washington when the other 2 crashed. i didn't know what was going to happen next or where? i felt so unsafe, like a sitting target to some of the most evil people in this world. i just prayed and prayed. i prayed for our safety, i prayed for our firemen. our police men, the missing, the found, the families and friends of victims, i prayed for our president, i prayed for the people and children on the planes. then i did what most people wouldn't i prayed for those who caused those planes to crash. i thought how lost you must be to let some crazy fool brain wash you into believing this was the right thing to do... and i prayed God give us strength to heal from this. and he has eveyday. i'll never forget that day. i saved all the magazines and newspapers from that day. and i will show them to my children. so they will know. America is strong and when struck we will gather together to help, defend,protect one another. that day was sad and scary but something i saw that day and the following days to come was no one saw color. they just saw American hurting and we all came together. Amen for that. God bless us all. 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 story11535.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 many others I watched the horror of that day unfold on the television. Still in shock, I walked out front and stood on the green front lawn and looked up at that gloriously beautiful sunny Fall day trying to comprehend the darkness that had invaded our country. My sons were 15, 14, 13, and 5 at that time. Now my oldest son is turning 20 and is a United States Marine in 2nd FAST (Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team). He is young, handsome and full of life, yet he has chosen to place himself between us and harm. He, like I, does not believe that it is an accident that our country has not experienced another attack since then. He also knows that it will take constant vigilance to keep it that way. So thank you Lcpl. Jonathan Schilling USMC 2nd FAST 2nd Plt. for watching out for us as we go about our lives since that day. Thank you ALL men and women of the armed forces who joined before and after 9-11-01. Heros are born here every day. We must keep dialog going and exchange ideas, that is our strenght, but we must NOT let ourselves be divided. UNITED WE WILL STAND. 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 story20751.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2006-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 66.188.55.254 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 flight to London boarded 25 minutes late due to a light bulb replacement.We had begun boarding tour plane when the first plane hit. By the time the second plane hit we had begun to back-out of the terminal. WE had no idea what was happening, but we could see the fear in the eyes of the stewardesses. Everyone began madly dialing cell phones to get more information. The pilot returned to the terminal and asked us to leave the plane so that security could check it. I can't tell you what it was like waiting in O'Hare not knowing what was happening as all of the airport televisions were snowed out due to censor. The only functional television was at the airport bar. There must have been 200 of us peering anxiously at the screen trying to find out what was happening. We then got the news that teh FAA was grounding all flights to the nearest airports. I stood at the window and watched planes practically fall from the sky as they had to land immediately. There were so many that there was no place for them and planes were lined up with buses picking up teh passengers. It was the most unreal site that I have ever seen... 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 story6363.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-12 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 63.97.240.1