326 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: The time is about 8:00 a.m. I'm driving to school, listening to the radio, when a DJ comes on during a break in the music and announces that an aircraft had just hit the World Trade Centre. Suprised, not yet shocked, I dismissed it and thought to myself, "I wonder how bad it is." 8:30 a.m. I'm in class, discussing what I'd heard on the radio, when my instructor walks in and informs us that a second plane hit the World Trade Centre. Everyone in class, shocked, let out a collective, "What?" and promptly ran downstairs to watch the events unfolding on CNN. For the next three and a half hours of our day in school, everyone in school crammed into the small waiting area adjacent to the front desk and watched, in utter amazement to some and horror to others, the unbelievable video footage. I was in absolute shock. I couldn't believe that something like this was happening; it truly seemed surreal, like something out of a movie. I will never forget the videotape of people walking northward through the city, attempting to escape the inferno of ground zero. It reminded me of the movie Independence Day. The most horrifying footage was yet to come. As reports came in of a third aircraft hitting the Pentagon, a fourth crashing in Pennsylvania, and unidentified aircraft still in flight over the New York area, the thirty or so people in our group of onlookers gasped as the first tower fell. A friend of mine yells out, "Oh my God. It's gone. GONE!" Seemingly as quickly as the first tower fell, the second one crumbled into devestation, and two buildings I never in my wildest imagination could ever forsee being destroyed were gone. Just like that. As the military scrambled their fighters to ward off any additional attacks from the sky, I thought to myself, God have mercy on the dumb son of a bitch who did this. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story1142.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 Sylvia was sitting in my living room when I watched the "Twin Towers" fall to the ground along with millions of our Americian hearts. It'so awful to see thousands of lives taken right before your own eyes. I bowed my head and prayed for all of the lost souls and their families and to everyone that they held dear to them. Then when I herd that it was a terroist attack my heart went BLACK. How could they hurt so many inocent people and get away with it. Do they have no respect for HUMAN LIFE? I guess they just dont understand that we are all created by the same GOD !!! They will get their day when they [the talaban] goes STRAIGHT TO HELL & SUFFER FOR THE REST OF ETERNITY WITH THE REST OF THE DAMNED !!!!!!!! OUR COUNTRY WAS BUILT UNDER GOD AND THEY CANT & WON'T TAKE OUR FREEDOM 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 story5267.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I remember when it all happened co-Workers were comming up to me cause the army post went on a alert,The base was going to close down they were not going to allow people to leave or even get on post the first thing that came across my mind my children,I'm a one parent mom.I was so scared not knowing what will happen next.The fear was so over scary.I wanted to help those people in New York. But i knew that i couldn't do anything but to pray to God that he will help all americans.I felt so empty for those who lost love ones, all i could do is pray ,It's so Hard It's Hurts, God is our way He's the answer to why and how this happen. But i would like to leave one more thing before i leave. I know where all my fellow americans sisters and brothers are. They are with our Father in heaven. 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 story4708.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: A Vacation that was no vacation. I had made plans for sometime prior to attend the International Comics Art Festival in Bethesda, Maryland, outside of Washington DC starting September 12th. Part of my planning for the trip was taking my car to the shop to get it ready for the 800 mile drive to D.C. from Detroit, which I had done before my 3rd shift on Monday the 10th. I took a taxi into work that day and got a ride home from a co-worker after my shift ended at Midnight. This meant that my car, usually in the driveway was not there the morning of the 11th. My plans for the 11th included waking up a little earlier than usual (for me that would be about 1:00pm), get ready for work, call a cab to go get my car from the shop. From there I would vote in the Detroit mayoral primary elections, go to work, come back home, get ready for the trip and go to bed early so I could leave for D.C. for my vacation starting the 12th. At least that was the original plan. The early morning hours was uneventful for me as I was clearing up a number items of personal business on my home laptop computer. The last bit of email I sent was sometime around 6:36am that morning on the 11th before I called it a "night" and went to bed. As I slept the world changed around me. About 9:30am, my mother, who lives across the street from me, called up and left a message on my home answering machine about the World Trade Center attacks. It would be the only message I would get during this time, but I was sleeping through it all and did not hear it. Around 1pm, my father called my mother at home to have her check on me. He was worried about me because he knew about my upcoming trip and he did not see my car where it usually was when he left for work that morning. I am sure many things wild and not so wild had crossed his mind wondering what happened to me. So my Mom came to see if I was OK. I woke to the sound of keys opening my front door. Normally I would not have heard such a sound from another end of the home, but I had already conditioned my internal biological clock to wake up then anyway, so my mother ended up beating my alarm clock by a couple of minutes. I laid in bed wondering what this was all about when she approached my room. Not hearing my usually rather loud snorring, the first questions she asked me was, "Junior, are you alive?". I thought she was being funny and responded that I was but was getting up soon anyway. "It is terrible!" she said. "Terrorists have highjacked airlines and flew them into the World Trade Center. Both towers have collapsed to the ground. They flew a plane into the Pentagon and it is on fire. The whole world has turned upside down!" I sat up in my bed and said rather somberly, "You know what this means? This means war." After my Mom told me the reason on how she got here she went back home knowing I was OK. I got some clothes on and went to turn on the TV and signed-on to the internet to read some of the first email reactions of the events. After only a short while, I got ready for work and called for a taxi to pick up my car. The driver and I only talked ever so briefly and I arrived at a rather empty auto place to get my car to go and vote. I get to the local grade school to vote, and the voting volunteers (all of whom I have seen for years) and the school principal were talking about the days events. I went to vote and being totally disgusted with my choices for mayor, I wrote myself in. Before I left, one of the ladies, whose son and I went to grade school with, asked me how my brother was. My brother is an officer in the Army stationed in Germany and she knew about where he was. As far as knew, he was OK I told her, though no one in the family had talked to him yet. So now my thoughts dwelled on my brother and his future as I went to work. All the TV's at work were tuned into the news instead of the Weather Channel, watching the horrors as World Trade Center 7 fell too late that afternoon. My mind was a daze. I asked to leave early, I was not thinking clearly and wanted to get out of there. My boss allowed me to go. So I began my vacation. On my way home, I went to get gas and found the local stations had not raised their prices much, but the lines were long. Everyone was filling up it seemed. I got home and signed online again, I quickly inquired and the ICAF convention had been cancelled. I had intended to share my hotel room with two other friends. One was scheduled to fly in from France, so I emailed him hoping he was not stuck on a runway in Nova Scotia (since all international flights had been diverted to Canada). He emailed back and was still in France. My friend from Nebraska then emailed me to confirm that the room he had gotten for us had been cancelled as well. The Hotel had called him when they knew the Festival was cancelled and because they need the rooms for people who were stuck in town due to cancelled plane flights. They were making sure we were not coming. We weren't. I watched the news. And continued to watch the replays of the death and destruction. The President's speech to the nation, news reports from CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, CBC showed more and more of the same all night. I wrote some of the angeriest email I have ever wrote. I was calling on a World War II style war to reshape the entire Muslim world like we reshaped Germany and Japan to those who wished to listen to my rant. I vented my anger (and sadness too) in word to all those who would listen. Those who knew me knew I was in my own pain. It was not thoughts my liberal-Democratic self would normally entertain they knew and deep down inside so did I. And I spent the night watching more TV. The early morning of Wednesday the 12th, about 6:30am daybreak, I went outside my home after my father had driven off for his work day again. And I looked up. The sky was clear. Totally and completely clear. I live nearby one of the flight plaths to Detroit Metro Airport. There was NO jet trails in the sky. None. I have never seen a completely empty sky before. I was dumbstruck. I soon went to bed for a few hours woke up and watched the TV and basically repeated the routinue for the next four days. On Thursday the 13th my Brother called me and the family. He was on base when everything happened and the base went into lockdown for the next two days. He was home long enough to get a good meal, see his wife and child, get some clothes and head back. He would be working 7 days until further notice. On Friday the 14th I remember getting all choked-up seeing Bryant Gumble getting choked-up after they played a tape of the British Royal Family's Honor Guard band playing the Star Spangled Banner at Buckingham Palace. I saw the same band only 3 months prior when I visited Europe that previous May to see my Brother and the sights. I found myself glad I had took my trip in the Spring instead of the Fall. By Saturday the 15th I decided I had enough and cut my vacation short and go back to work on Sunday the 16th. I had enough TV. It seems so much a haze now, almost a year later as I write this. I still find myself absorbed in anything about the events of 9/11 (one of the reasons I am here writting this). And I wonder if this need to read more and more of what happened may symbolize some sort of mental anguish on my part, or if it is a healthy reaction to the horrible events of that day? I do not know. I feel well enough now to start criticizing the President again anyway. I am also glad that the anger I had in my words then were never transformed into deeds. And my Brother is doing just fine right now, though in the middle of a peace-keeping operation in Kosvo. "It is a slightly quieter corner of hell.", I like to tell him. Perhaps, I am really talking about myself? -Ray Bottorff Jr Detroit, Michigan August 20, 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 story1291.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: Before I begin I really would like express my sympathy for all of the lives lost and the families and friends of those people. I will always remember where I was and what I was doing on September 11. I was working in a high rise building in down town Milwaukee on the 22 floor. Although the attacks were far I could feel it as though it were right down the road. I remember seeing several people glancing at the tv in the corner conference room. As I look to see what everyone is gaulking over I see a plane (2nd plane) hit the world trade center. I was in awe. I then see the words "possible terrist attack." All I could do was stare at the tv. We are located 1 block away from the federal building and so we were evacuated within 1 or 2 hours of time. All I wanted to do was collect my family and get to a safe place away from downtown. It seemed like hours to get anywhere and to call everyone I knew. I remember being glued to the tv and trying to figure out what in world was going on. It was such a confusing time and I think I felt every emotion that could possibly be. I can't say that I was at any of the places that experienced these terrible attacks but I will never forget and I am still very scared and saddened. I kiss and hug and say I love you many more times then ever. I think I have done more reflecting on life this past year then I ever have in the past. We are all possible victims and you have to treat each day with value and love. 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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 home that day,my two younger kids were sick.My oldest was out of work under DR.'s care.I was watching the morning news shows.....and then i saw the first plan hit the tower...of course at first we all thought it was an accident.I waited to hear details and prayed for the people in tower and plane,and family members.Then second plane hit I sat watching with my mouth wide open in horror...who...why?My kids realized i was very upset and sat to watch with me.I wondered is this he end of us all...will we be attacked here?News flooded in I was glued to t.v.,couldn't turn it off.I watched all day and night...felt like a bad dream...I was waiting to wake up!These events changed the way I viewed our country,our saftey,the wonderful men and women that serve to protect our rights.Lord is this your way of waking us up?Is this a sign of the times? My 14yr old son wrote his 4-H speech about these events,prejudice,hate and how to work together.So wise to be so young...they are our future! May God help us all never to take anything or anyone for granted again. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story5584.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 going to school at st. stephens and i had photography for my first period class. The teacher wasnt there yet, so i decided to drive across the street and get something to drink. I had just bought some pina colada tea and i turned around and saw the first tower on tv with fire coming out of it. It took me a while to register that the world trade center was on fire, then i heard the comentator talking about how a plane had crashed into the world trade center and it might be terrorism. Then the second plane crashed into and it became certain that it was terrorism. I couldnt believe it. I kinda always thought of terrorism as something that happens in movies like delta force and stuff like that. My friend and I drove back over to school and told everyone that both world trade buildings had been hit by planes. Nobody believed me at first. Then we all went to chapel after first period and the chapline told everyone that the country is under attack and that the first tower had already fallen and that the pentagon had been attacked as well. After chapel we all went to class as usual, but nobody did anything but watch the crisis unfold on tv. I went to the student center and as i walked into the tv room I saw the second tower fall and about half the room was crying and the other half had their heads buried in their hands. One of my friends from the tennis academy was from ny and both of his parents still live there. He didnt really talk to anybody for about a week or two and i only saw him once that day. He told me about how he couldnt get a hold of his parents because the entire united states was trying to call ny and there simply wasnt enough room for his call to be transfered. 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 story2599.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 my zero hour class at Westlake High School. I was in the gym working out when one of my friends. Trip Strickland came in and said that a plane had flown into the world trade center. I thought at first that it was simply an aeronotical accident. Then I went into the locker room and turned on the radio. I then heard that another plane had flown into the WTC. Then I knew that their was something else envolved. As the day went on during all of my classes we listened to the radio and found out about United flight 93, and that a plane flew into the pentagon. I was woried throughout the day and all i could think about was who was resposible for this. That night i didn't have anything on my mind but what had gone on earlier. I watched T.V. non stop for the next 3-5 days. The night of 9/11 i listened to a song by Led Zeppelin called the Imigrant Song. The lyrics showed my emotions perfectly. It was full of hatred for the apposing people and sympathy for my fellow americans. One of the things that stuck out the most in my mind were the endless amount of people showing pictures of their family members praying to get some information about them. You could just tell that all hope was lost. In fact one of my co-workers a tRandall's Grocery Store on Bee Caves and Walsh Tarlton lost his brother. He had previously lived in New York with the rest of his family. His brother worked in one of the towers and was one of many that were killed that day. 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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 can remember where I was as plain as day. I was just getting out of the shower. I always leave the tv on the news and when I walked into my room my sister was calling me. I had my back turned to the tv and she began telling me what was happening and just as I turned around I saw the second plane hit. It was like the breath was stolen out of my lungs. I have two best friends that live in Balitmore and who are both in the Navy and I immediately thought of them. I then thought of all those poor people who were probably trapped. I began right then to pray silently to myself that everyone was all right. I knew I had to get to work to find out more of what was going on, and it seemed like the only thing to do. All the way to work I listened to the radio. Switching from station to station looking for some good news about what was happening. I think I was in shock for almost a month. I slept witht the tv on every night turned to cnn or msnbc. I constantly called my two boys in Balitmore to ensure their safety. I also did a lot of crying. I didn't know anyone who perished in this devasting event, but I love my country and my freedom and I grieved for my fellow americans. I know I will never know their pain. But they will always be in my heart and prayers. I pray that nothing ever happens like this again. I also thank God for all the brave people who gave their lives trying to save others. God Bless You All, and God Bless America, Jennifer L. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was on my way to work when I heard the news on the radio. I thought it was a joke because the particular radio station I was listening to is know for playing practical jokes. Once I got to work, I asked my co-workers if they had heard anything about a plan crash at the World Trade Center. They too thought it was a joke until we turned on the television and saw the image of the first plane hitting the building. It was a horrible sight! People were jumping out the building. We just couldn't believe it. It had to be an accident. We couldn't have been more wrong. Just then, a second plane hut the second tower. America was under attack! Ijust started praying for God to protect us and to help people get out safely. Then news of the plane at the Pentagon came on followed shortly by the plane in Pennsylvania. I just started cryuing and praying even more. Things in this country have certainly changed since that dreadful day. We have come together as a nation. People who normally wouldn't speak to one another have become friends. American's now look out for their fellow man. We also take the liberties of living in this great nation more seriously. I pray that we continue to grow and that we never forget the sacrificies others made that September day in the year 2001. Deanna Phillips 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 story5551.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: At about 9:00 a.m. on September 11, 2001 one of my 4th grade students came running into my room after delivering his Science homework to one of my colleagues. He said that there was something important on tv and I might want to turn the tv to the news. (We have tv monitors in our room for the daily annoucements, videos, and our clock. We also have access to local channels, but they are rarely watched.) I changed the channel to one of our local affiliates and immediately saw Tower 1 in flames. We watched as the second plane hit Tower 2. The kids didn't understand the magnitude of the event they were watching, but all the teachers did. We found ourselves often in the hallways to get updates and to hide our tears from our students. I was on the phone with my mother checking on my family members when she screamed that one of the towers was collapsing. It was a horrific day. The uncle of one of my students worked in the Pentagon. Fortunately, he was fine. The brother of a friend of mine was a firefighter with Ladder 3 and perished in the Towers. It is truly a day that will live in infamy. God bless the victims, their families and friends. God Bless America!!! Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story5346.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. 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: I am a Major in the US Marines. On September 11, I was stationed at Headquarters Marine Corps at the Pentagon. My office was immediately adjacent to the wedge that was struck. I had just returned to my desk from an office where I had seen the WTC towers get hit. It was 9:30 a.m. I was about to go and get a bottle of water from a snack bar when my phone rang. I almost didn't answer it, but something told me I should. It was my Brother, James J. Webber Jr., an American Airlines pilot. We discussed what had just occured when, at 9:45 a.m., I felt a severe "shudder" and heard two distinct explosions. I told my brother that something had just happened and that I had to go. We evacuated the Pentagon in an orderly fashion and immediately noticed the black acrid smoke rising from the bright orange flames. We made our way up the hill toward Arlington Cemetary when I noticed plane parts scattered over the ground. We made our way to Henderson Hall Marine Base where we began to notify the rest of the Marine Corps as to what had just happened. We worked throughout the day. I had attempted several times to notify my family, wife and four kids, that I was O.K. but to no avail. I finally made it home at about 3:00 P.M. and had not felt the trauma of the earlier events until I saw the faces of my wife and children. (Special note: The snack bar that I was going to go to was severly damaged in the attack. The irony of it all is that my Guardian Angle was an American Airlines pilot and it was an American Airlines aircraft that was used in the attack on the Pentagon) 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 story1052.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: Today is the 5th anniversary of 9/11 and I went to Dizzies Finer Diner, which is restaurant ont he corner near my home on 9th street in Park Slope. It was where I was until about 9:50 AM on 9/11/01 and where someone said as I was leaving that "a plane had hit the World Trade Center." My story of that day is in the archive so there is no need to repeat it. My friend Anselmo, who works at Dizzies, wanted to do something special for today and I said I would bring bring in on my laptop computer some of the 1,000 images I took of the neighborhood in response to 9/11. Some of them are also in the digital archive. Six months after the event I revisited the same sites, and I have been retracing my steps through the neighbohrood every years since 9/11. Today I have a collection of many thousand images of the ways the neighbohrood residents and business people responded and how some of those responses fade and reappear on days like today. At about 7:30 AM I put the laptop on my table near the cash register and turned on the sldie slide and let it run conitnuously until about 9:05. Many people came over and looked. A few of them thanked me for sharing them. I wonder what people will say in another five years when I do it again. All the best, Jerry Krase 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 story20621.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: we had no idea what had happened that morning until we got out of the millionaire attraction at mgm studios. we were very confused as disney started shutting down operations. disney did a wonderful job handeling the situation and in my opinion, disney company should be running the country :) they made us feel safe and kept us as calm as possible. 3 days after the 11th we had to get on a plane to go back to chicago. i was never so scared to fly in my life. we were in the happiest place on earth on one of the saddest days in u.s. history 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 story10780.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2004-09-04 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 67.162.50.0 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 inside at the time, on the playstation, when my mum just said "come here" i said ok then, and on the t.v there was two tall buildings ive never seen in my life, i said "what are they mum?" and she replied "the world trade center in new york" i was shocked all the same, fire and smoke every where, then one just kinda fell down, i was horrified for a long time, then the other fell, i didnt understand enough, ive realised now how horryfying it really is and how this world is full of terror and fear!! im sure people have more interesting stories but i thought i would share this with you 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 story10906.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2004-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 81.131.210.149 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I had just got on the computer and was going to see the last part of Good Morning America and the beginning of Live with Regis and Kelley. I had brought the internet up and had not turned on the television, when my cousin, Shirley Stringer Schrimsher, sent me an instant message and said to turn the Television on because there was a problem at the World Trade Center. When I turned it on, the first plane had already hit, but the second one had not. As I watched I was stunned as the rest of America and the world was when the second plane hit the 2nd tower. It was shock and unbelief that something so horrible was happening here in America, the land of the free. This is the country that millions of people have come to live and raise a family and have freedoms that other countries do not have. This is the country that my husband's grandfather came to live to have freedom from oppression. As the program went on we learned about the Pentegon being hit. We also learned about the hijacked plane that was flying in Pennsylvania which crashed due to an undertaking by a group of courageous passengers. The thought of the lives of innocent people, especially the children, being taken by an act of horror such as this is still unreal. What kind of people hate America so much that they take not only their own life, but the lives of innocent people? Our country has had open arms for all kinds of people in all walks of life. How dare someone do this to our country and our people!!! It's been a year, but it has changed the lives of not only Americans, but people everywhere. Nobody is exempt from this kind of hatred and misguidance. We are not promised a tomorrow. We need to love and appreciate our families, friends, and neighbors. We need to love God and obey his word which is the Bible. Everyone will be accountable for their actions, whether good or bad. May God bless America and Let Freedom Ring. 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 story5471.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. 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: I had just put my four month old baby down for her morning nap and turned on the Today Show. The regular scheduled program was not on. I saw the first tower of the World Trade Center smoking. I did not know what had happened until I listened further and as I watched and listened a second plane hit the second tower. I experienced disbelief, shock and horror as I thought about the people in the buildings. Then it was reported that the planes were airliners carrying passengers. The enormity and tradgedy of the event began to sink in. All those people on the planes and what they went through and experience during their last moments. As I watched the towers smoking and burning, I briefly wondered if they could collapse and quickly dismissed the possibility. Not too long after that, the first then second one collapsed and I could not contain my emotions. All those people trapped, killed. All the people who were losing their fathers, mothers, childrens, husbands, wives, fiances, etc. How awful this event was that was unfolding before my very eyes. Then the news about the Pentagon and Shankesville, Pa. Disbelief again that four airlines could be hijacked the very same day and all used for such ill intentions. My heart goes out to all those who lost loved ones. I pray for them in their pain that God will comfort them and give them strength for each 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 story5661.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. 198.70.215.157 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I remember September 11th very clearly. It started out like any normal school day(I am in high school). I went to my first class, and about 1/2 hour into my second period class, science, in the middle of a lab, the science teacher next door came in and told our class the news. I could feel my eyes filling up with tears right then. New York City had been attacked. A thousand things went through my minds, and it may seem weird but I guess you can say I was having flashbacks of New York City...Central Park, Yankee Stadium, Madison Square Garden, flaggin down taxi's late in the middle of January after getting out of a Knicks game. Jeez, I didn't know what to think. Then it hit me. My family was so close to the city, that at any given time someone in my family could have been in the city. I'm from Greenwich, CT so New York's our backyard and especially growing up a big-time Yankees fan we were in the city A LOT. Now i was standing in science class, not wanting to believe anything, and i had the people in my class, plus my teachers it would all be alright, besides, it was't Boston.(i live in Cape Cod Mass now). I wanted to scream at them, BOSTON?!? I knew it and they knew it that i didnt grow up on Boston, how dare they tell me everything was going to be okay. Their family was all within 20 miles of our school working in Cape Cod. As the day went on, in between every class i pulled my cell phone out to call my mom, see what her reaction was.....and then i remembered OH MY GOD my mother was supposed to be flying out of Boston on the 11th, but she ended up cancelling a few days before. My heart practically stopped. That day they let us out of school early. I tried calling all of my family and friends in CT, but everyone's cell phones were not in order. I will never ever as long as i live forget the 11th of September in 2001. For once, i was thrilled not to be so close to NYC. 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 story974.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. 2002-08-05 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 152.163.188.195 Annotation Annotations to this item. Students/Teachers DOMESTIC Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I am a registered nurse and was on duty during the attacks on September 11, 2001. I am charge nurse responsible for 50-60 elderly residents in a long term care rehababilitative nursing center. There is a television in one of our residents lounge areas across from the nurse's station and next to where I usually have my medication cart during my morning med pass. That is what I was doing that morning and preparing to go to our 9:00 a.m. morning discussion of all pertinent new information regarding our residents. All of this was unexpectedly interrupted as one by one staff members were stopping to watch the news bulletins or what was taking place in our country. Several of us hugged and cried as we watched in horror and disbelief the massive destruction that was happening before our eyes. For me personally it was a day I will never forget and I have been changed in ways I'm still finding out one year later. These events took place fairly early into my long 12 hour shift. I needed to compose myself and carry on to deliver medications and reassurance to my residents. Many of them were quite aware of the situation as most of them have televisions in their rooms. My day stretched ahead filled with much uncertainty and an overwhelming feeling of needing to see and be with my loved ones. The best I could do about that was take a few minutes to call my children, husband and mother. That did help me once I was able to speak with them. When you are responsible for the wellfare of other people it does help you to focus on what you need to do. Still as the day and events and stories unfolded I felt helpless that I could not do more. I'm sure many other Americans had similar feelings that day. Thankyou for this opportunity to share my story. Maryanne 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 story8016.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. 2002-09-20 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 152.163.197.196 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was woken up September 11th by my friend who insisted I turn on the news. It took me awhile to realize what I was witnessing, but it didn't really hit me until I saw the second plane crash into the towers. I still don't think it completely sunk in just then, because I persisted on completing my morning routine as normal. But as the day grew on and the air was thick with that occurence's activites, the horror struck me. For days I was mellowed with sorrow and shock, and at times I sobbed for the tradegy that was so new to Americans. But even so, I felt seperated from it, as though it was happening far away from me and I wasn't too affected by it. That's when I heard a friend of mine at work had a son that worked at the Pentagon when the attack happened there. For weeks his body was searched for, with no words of comfort to the mother. Finally the words none of us wanted to hear were spoken. His body was found, but unfortunately he did not survive the terrorists attack. He was pronounced dead about 6 weeks after 9/11. His name was Matt Flocco. His mother's only son, and friend to many. When I found out he was no longer living I felt the full force of the horror hit me and I once again felt the sorrow and shock of when I first heard of it. It angered me immensely to think that someone I knew was taken away so quickly from something so evil, and I realized that no matter where you were from in America, you could have lost someone in the attacks. You could have known someone who lost someone in the attacks, or you could have been lost in the attacks yourself. I never would have thought that I would've been directly affected from the tradegy, and I wish I wasn't, but it's a sobering reality check. Matt Flocco was a wonderful person, and so is his family. His mother, whose name I'll protect due to respect, is devastated still to this day. And who's to blame her? I haven't the slighest clue to what she went through and still is experiencing, but that doesn't stop me from feeling the pain she radiates from her everytime she's near. Even though America bonded together and finally became a nation again after many years, it still wasn't worth the lives lost. I suppose this piece is dedicated to the memory of Matt Flocco, and to all those who were lost that horrible day. May you never be forgotton, and you're families comforted in the days ahead. 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