354 20 70359 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I work in Newark, NJ and work on the 8th floor of our building, with a perfect view of the city. That morning was so clear, the sky was just an amazing blue and there was no haze which you can normally see hanging over the city. Everyone who works in this city had a bird?s eye view that day. I came to work at about 7:30 in the morning, and the guy who sits next to me, Eddie, told me a short time later that there was a bad fire in one of the towers, I said "are you kidding me?" and he said "no, go look out the window". Well, needless to say when I walked to the window the first words out of my mouth were "holy s**t, you're not kidding!" For some unknown reason I went to out equipment closet and got out the digital camera and started to take pictures, something I would never normally do. At first we thought it was just a fire, then we heard on the radio that a plane had crashed into the tower, I remember thinking to myself how could a plane crash into the tower on such a clear day? And then we watched the second plane crash into the second tower, and we all knew someone was trying to do it on purpose. Everyone was stacked up against the window watching it happen, it was horrible to see, it had a surreal quality to it as there was no sound through the thick glass window, it was like watching a silent horror movie. We could see everything. Some people here were crying and a few were close to losing it. Eddie?s brother in law worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, and once he realized that people were trapped above were the planes crashed and couldn?t get out, he started to break down, he basically witnessed the death of his brother in law but didn?t realize it at the time. Then the unthinkable happened, the first tower went down, someone here had turned the radio on to hear what was happening, and when the tower went down the DJ went silent and we could here the horrible sound through the radio while we watched it, people were crying and running around, we just could not believe what had just happened, your mind just could not comprehend it. We all realized then that the second tower might come down, and when it did, everyone started to leave the office for home, it was just too much to take. I tried to get on the train at Penn Station Newark, but right before the train arrived they cancelled all train service for fear of something else happening, everyone was stranded. I happened to walk pass a customer service representative from the railroad and asked him how I could get back home on a bus as they were running, and by chance the next bus leaving was heading down to an area close to my home. What should normally take 10 minutes to go from Penn Station Newark to the NJ Turnpike took over 1-1/2 hours due to the traffic jams. People were actually walking along the highway towards Newark coming from the direction of the city, but to this day I don?t know why or where they were coming from. When the bus finally got out to the Turnpike we were probably no more that a mile or so in a straight line from the city, and the cloud of smoke was still unbelievable, some people on the bus had not seen anything from their offices and didn?t really have a grasp on what happened, but when we got onto the Turnpike and they could see, they were saying ?oh my god, oh my god!? The smoke still seemed to cover the whole city. I went home and turned on the TV, and watched everything happen up close and personal all over again. It is without a doubt the most horrible thing I have ever witnessed. But I went to work the next day, what happened didn?t make me fear, it made me ?white hot? angry, and it will never change the way I live, in Freedom. 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 story2081.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. 2002-09-10 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 198.177.2.135 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: Morning had begun with the clear blue skies over Northern California, and my three school age kids were in motion to follow through their sharing of the upstairs shower,with the sounds of 'hurry up and 'I'm waiting from teens voices of I'm important too,and will soon be late if you don't hurry and get done tone.....'My second oldest was saying 'there has been a terrible accident, the airplane just hit a building in New York City', and her anticipation was heard in her breaths,though I urged her on to get through a normal day no matter what is happening on TV.....a few minutes later- all were engulfed of the second instance of the airplane [no 2] hitting the opposite building in New York City,' where it too was directly hitting the building at such heights- it must be an accident,as now I question myself, two airplanes, in the same day..............................................WE all completed our morning attending the school routes, and I told them if there was an emergency, then I will be at home waiting for anything anyone needed........... [Subsequent Events] The local Junior HIgh School unraveled hatred youth upon youth a few days later, as my youngest came home saying that certain groups were claiming their relatives are responsible for the deaths of those at the WORLD TRADE CENTER. Other kids were upset,that how can these groups of kids be allowed to be at the local school when such hideous crimes of the World Trade Center, is having a unisex of conundrum follies where teen boys are fighting outside,inside,on the parking lots, and on streets, that once was everyone shared in harmony only a few days before. Everyone is so out of the ordinary, but was it true that there are those in our own country that would be related,or elated while so many others suffered? No appeasement wore on at the local Junior High School, and the different groups at the Junior High School emerged like soldiers in the battlefields separate and conquer to battle a battle so new,yet paralleled its life in a newness felt by everyone sharing its own breaths. Those whom wore their turbans, were being given specific attention, while the American youth were not shown any conditions new or absolved by the ignorance lashed out by those that wished harm onto the innocent, that youth can't become entangled at this age-now can they? My teen son said 'Mom,you just don't know.' He refused to talk about it later. Fights and violence of all levels became the norm, and the differences of all nationalities of youth at the school earmarked the future of California growing like new gardens in a field where the sun brings out the best for a garden to grow. The two parallel worlds of Democracy and the World away of the Mideast landed on our own doorsteps for the different education, the different rules each follows, and the different ideals of life and human understanding that are echoing on the minds of the children,and the future of American minds nationwide. Why? The 50 year reigns of previous torment our own fathers brought to a mutual agreement is now burning bright on the American forefront even these 5 years later. Why? Another generation awaits for its own leaders,parents, and the government that says it has the highest technology to protect the innocent, where our own teens ask how can this happen? They deserve answers, yet they too, have donated the highest honor of all, many have donated their 17,18 yr old lives to a battle that is untamed and relentless these 5 years later. While the hatred of America looms forwards, it shows the American families so many questions all these years later. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: On September 11, 2001 I was on my way to work when I heard the news. My heart broke into millions of pieces as I arrive to work and saw the tears in people eyes as they watch the event on TV. I stood along side of one of my co-worker and we hug and cried together for the lost of the people on that day. That day has affect my life a lot. I was one of the people who lost her job shortly after that happen. I lost my home because I could no longer keep up the payments without a job, I lost my car. My 4year old son and I was close to being homeless. I have no help and no money.I have found a new job and have a use car to get back and forward to work, but I am $8000.00 in the hole from bills and have no way to get out. I am a single mom who has cried for help and am not being heard. 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 story4416.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 am only a school student, and I don't know if that matters or not. All I know is that 9/11 has changed my outlook on the world. Before I begin, I want to give my deepest sympathy to those who were lost that day and their families. I also want to thank the heroes, and that could be anyone. I was in school when my computer teacher walked by my classroom and told my reading teacher that the World Trade Center had been bombed. At that point I had no idea what tthe WTC was, but in no time I would find out. All through the day we watched the news. The problems just seemed to get bigger. And when you sit in a classroom and know you can't do anything to help, it sends a terrible feeling through me. Our school had special councelors come in and talk to students who needed it. Thats how it was all week, but everything went back to normal the next. Then we went to NYC to see a Broadway play. While there I got to see the WTC memorial site. I was so nervous every single time i heard a plane, and I was so scared something would happen, but I returned home safely but very saddened by the memorials. Now approaching the 1 year anniversary, my school is having a red, white and blue day, and we are having a tree planting ceremony. This year we were suppost to go to the WTC as a feild trip, but that is obviously impossible. We will still go, but just as tourists. To end this all I have to say is that this attack will live forever in history, just as Pearl Harbor did. I will always remember the day I felt like the world was ending, and when I got to see all those "missing" posters at the WTC site along with the blown out subway. It will live forever inside me. It should live inside everyone 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 story1855.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: It was 8:00, i woke up late and had my neighbor take me to school. We were listening on the radio something about a plane crashing, we thought it was just a joke. I arrive at school and i come in my classroom and my class is watching the television with their mouths open. I then watched and realize what had happened. While we were watching another plane crashes in to the second tower. Everybody was astounded. What could of happened? An accidental plane crash? That day all we did was watch the horrifying attacks that occured on September 11th. 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 story9223.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2003-04-26 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 64.45.212.75 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: Iba cruzando la Quinta Avenida cuando mire hacia el sur para observar las torres gemelas. El dia estaba clarisimo cosa que el humo que ya salia de la primera torre relucia contra el azul del cielo. Pense, como tantos en ese momento, que se habia estrellado una avioneta contra el edificio. Honestamente, y esto quizas tenga que ver con lo mucho que requiere causar una impresion en un neoyorquino, no pense ni en el piloto ni en la perdida de otras vidas. Solo me parecia como otro pequeno capitulo en la historia de una gran ciudad. Cuando llegue a mi oficina tenia un recado de mi esposa que la llamara de inmediato. Esa conversacion, la cual duro apenas unos minutos, hizo que pensara de nuevo en la pluma de humo que habia visto unos minutos antes. Atacaban el pais. Como trabajamos en la sombra del Empire State Building, decidimos evacuar el edificio e irnos para nuestros hogares. Uno no sabia si los terroristas pensaban tambien en derrumbar ese simbolo de la ciudad. Temia montarme en un tren y decidi caminar de la oficina en la calle 34 hasta mi casa en la 218. Me tomo 4 horas llegar a casa. Lo que mas me impresiono de ese viaje por casi todo Manhattan, fue que toda la ciudad parecia estar, por un momento, concentrado en el mismo tema. Por unas horas toda raza, todo genero, toda nacionalidad se unio como neoyorquino. 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 story432.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. 2002-04-17 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 146.96.81.40 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 name is Ann White and I would simply like to say that my prayers are continually with the family of the lost victims and the people who survived. Just to remind those that God is still here and He will never leave us nor forsake us. Let us continue to pray for tragedies all over the world. thanks for letting me share. 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 story4235.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. 216.9.83.42 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: Today, to me was harder than it as when it happen a year ago. When my teacer today in gov't put the TV on and we watched for the whole class period. It was so sad and so moving. I wanted to cry so bad for the families that lot a love one or a friend. Last year, you rarely seen people talk about their loved ones, but today there were so any specials on TV about people talking about losing their husbands, dads, sons, and friends. I can't amage what they must feel like. They have got to be so strong! My heart cries every single time I see footage abouttheplanes going into the Twin Towers. My heart goes out to every American! Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story5349.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: My story has already been published online by Rediff.com. I am not sure if there are any copyrights associated with that. I would like to submit my story for this collection. I am simply going to cut and paste my recollection. I had typed that entire incident as I remembered it on the night of September 11th, 2001. It was published under the heading 'I am Glad to be Alive'. I was at the World Trade Centre (I work at the World Financial Centre building, across the highway from the WTC) on Tuesday morning. I walked out of the WTC just minutes (probably 8 minutes) after the plane slammed into the first tower. As I got out of the PATH train (which runs through the bowels of the WTC) I could smell something burning. There is a restaurant at the same level and I thought they must have had a minor accident. Sure enough, the fire alarm lights were blinking. People usually ignore these lights as these are a frequent occurrence. Of course, people at the restaurant were ignoring the alarm. I took the escalator that takes me to street level. As we approached that level, I suddenly saw people on the escalator above me running away; there was a great deal of commotion and shouting. I thought it must be a hostage situation and dashed toward the exit I usually take. I saw a man being supported by a policeman. It looked like he was bleeding. I assumed he had been shot and took off like a mad man. I slowed down when I realised that all the shops around me were closed -- and the scene outside the glass door some 50 feet before me was a little murky. There appeared to be some smoke outside. I wasn't sure what was happening. I walked to the exit and stepped out. It looked like a scene from a war movie. The street looked like a war zone. I immediately drew parallels to Beirut. Then another thing struck me -- the smell of burning had not gone away at all! How could a restaurant fire deep down smell all the way up here? I wondered. Then I saw the debris all around me -- some of it was still burning. I chanced to look up -- then the horror of it dawned on me. The WTC was burning! I whipped out my cell phone and tried to call my wife. No signal. Obviously everyone around me was using up the cell sites -- not enough network bandwidth to get my call through. Usually I turn right and go to my office. But the way towards my office appeared to be impassable. There was just too much debris there. So I crossed the road in front of me and then turned right to my office. Still no go. There was a police officer blocking my path. I stopped. But several others pushed through. He told me the only way was to go one block and then try to turn right. I did just that. That road had debris. I was pushing along when I saw -- right in front of me -- a huge hunk of what appeared to be freshly hewn beef sitting on the windshield of a car. I was shocked! What kind of person would store freshly cut meat -- even temporarily when taking it out of a truck and putting it into cold storage -- on the hood of a car? Just then a couple of people put a sheet of white cloth on that. Then I heard some women screaming and pointing to something below. I looked down, and a scant six inches from my foot I saw a foot. I managed to cross the highway that separates my office from the WTC. I struggled up a small embankment and watched as people poured out of my office building. I still did not know that a plane had crashed into the WTC. Then I heard someone say so. I just did not believe him. I thought to myself, this is a small fire -- these people should be able to contain it quite easily. Why would my building be in danger? I walked up to the security staff at my building and asked them if they were planning to evacuate the building. They said 'Not yet, but it could be any moment.' Decision time. Should I go up or go home? I decided foolhardily to go up. Since I work on the sixth floor -- any emergency exit would not be quite as painful as, say, an exit from the 38th floor (which is where I used to work). I pressed on up, took the first elevator. Just as I got off the elevator, I saw a couple of people rushing out of an adjacent office, saying they had just seen a second plane hitting 'our' building. Oh no! All I wanted to do at that time was call my wife and tell her I was coming home. I opened my office -- which I share with three others -- dialed home, only to find that I could not get through. I dialled again. In the meantime I heard the people on my floor rushing to the emergency door. I managed to get through to my wife and told her the WTC was burning, that there had been another plane crash and that I was trying to return home. Then I left. I was the last person on my floor to leave. As I wended my way down the stairs I was struck by how calm people were. This New York resilience is something I saw time and time again today. We left the building and I got out -- now I realised the second plane had slammed into the other WTC tower. Someone standing by said to me he had seen the plane coming from near the Statue of Liberty and slamming into the tower. I kept turning back to see what was happening. I saw at least three or four people jumping from what must have been the 40th or 50th floor of the WTC tower. They were flying out only to slam into concrete -- which I fortunately did not witness. They were obviously jumping from the fire and willing to take a chance with the jump. I was horrified. I looked at the pavement below me and saw many, many empty high heeled shoes. Did they come from the explosion? Not possible because they were all in pairs and undamaged. Then I got it -- this must have been people watching while the second plane crashed into the building. By now I was numb. It was almost 9:15 am. Or 9.20 am. I wasn't looking at my watch. I saw a few people with digital cameras taking videos and pictures of the building going up in flames. I kept walking until I reached a subway station I knew existed. I got into the subway numb with shock and escaped from the area. I got off the subway at 14th street and 4th Avenue and trudged all the way up to 33rd street and 8th Avenue. A mighty long walk, considering that each street takes about a minute at a brisk pace and each Avenue takes about 4 minutes. I reached Penn station at around 10 am. I got into what would be the exit train for me, the 10:43 am going home. Unfortunately they evacuated Penn station so I had to wait outside for about four hours before ultimately reaching home by the same train around 3:30 pm. I am glad to be alive. I hope and pray the thousands of souls that died there today go to heaven in peace. It was never their fault. It never is. 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 story8485.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 husband and I were members of a group of 40 Duke University and University of North Carolina alumni who has just begun a two week stay at Oxford University's Kellogg College as alumni students on September 10th. We were beginning an intensive study of Roman Britain, complete with field trips to archaeological sites. Because our September 11th was six hours ahead of the day as experienced by our immediate and extended family members in the Washington DC area, my memories include our visit to a reconstructed Iron Age farm, where we had to dip our shoes in a solution placed there in an effort to ensure no 'mad cow' disease instance could occur. Seemed like the most serious situation we could face at the time. My travel journal also has a reference to the Fishbourne Roman Palace and a ploughman's lunch that day, at the Red Lion Inn, in business since 1147. How odd to experience the longevity of civilization on a day when its fragile nature would be so terribly exposed. It was 6:50 p.m. Oxford time when we started down the stairs of our dormitory, heading to the Commons for our evening gathering and dinner. A classmate rushed from the elevator. I remember she still had her wine glass with her. She said, " You don't know - terrorists attacked the World Trade Center with airplanes. The buildings collapsed. Tens of thousands may be dead. And another plane hit the Pentagon and another went down in Pennsylvania; it was probably trying to hit Camp David. We can use the telephone in the dorm hall. This is how you call transAtlantic." That is what I heard and how I heard it. I was an ocean away from my daughter and her sons, from my son and his wife. Somehow I was able to reach my son's home in Alexandria, Virginia; his mother-in-law was there feeding the dog. She was her usual matter-of-fact self, announcing that my son and her daughter were fine, just stuck in their offices. I asked her to call our daughter's home to leave a message because she would be in her classroom dealing with the crisis as a teacher. I felt desperate to connect with my family. What I wrote in my journal when night - not sleep - finally came: "...our world as we knew it is gone. I can't stop shaking inside. ....Circuits all busy so I can't get through. Our e-mail address from home does not work. I want to be at home with my children. I wonder about ....(and then listed the friends and the grown children of friends I knew lived in New York City). I wonder about (my daughter's) Muslim students and how she will manage. I wonder about (our grandsons, aged 13 and 11) being afraid. I wonder about (my colleagues) in the Fairfax County government buildings. "I think of those people trapped in foreign countries at the beginning of World War II. I think I have a tiny sense of what they must have felt, being trapped continents away from their loved ones. The distance......and I can do nothing about it. What if the terror spreads worldwide? What is next? "All flights from Europe are halted - we couldn't get home if we were supposed to - wonder how I can continue this vacation, this study that was to have been a celebration. How can our country continue? What about (my son and daughter-in-law's) businesses? How does (my daughter) help the children? "Absolute total vulnerability, the sense of it. Makes one afraid of waiting around here. American we say in our appearance. Have to get to bus station and to airport and somehow safely across the Atlantic. Wonder if we will travel again? Intimidation - this is what this is about. "Feeling completely alone and so incredibly frustratingly separate from what is now real. Connection is everything and I am not connected". Post Script to the 11th: I walked into Oxford town on the 12th, fearful of the many men on the street who were obviously from the Middle East, and ashamed for being fearful. On the sidewalk, signs, "Pray for America"; stars and stripes appeared in the buses. We stood in the college Commons with the rest of Europe for 3 minutes of silence; on television we watched the Queen sing the Star Spangled Banner in Westminster and heard Big Ben toll. We found sympathy and understanding from those who had endured the blitz, and from their children and their grandchildren. We eventually reached our own children by phone and new e-mail. We flew home to them and to our changed world on September 22nd. 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 story5713.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: It has been my experience that the life of a university student tends to be anything but regular. Residence hall living only magnifies the effect. Chaotic schedules filled with classes, parties, study breaks, campus clubs, and sports gave me a feel of constant motion. A feel of energy and inertia not easily stolen. The evening of September 10th must have been much like any other, in that I stayed up late and went to sleep exhausted. I wish I could say that I remembered my dreams that night. I don't. I wish I could say that I had some decent recollection of the time leading up to that morning. I don't. The only detail I can recall with any certainty is that I slept, but very poorly. After tossing and turning all night, I must have finally been sound asleep. Strangely, I failed to wake when the phone rang. My roommate did. His mother was frantic, he later told me. He had yet to fully wake, but it was beginning to dawn on him that this day would be very different from any other either of us had ever known. Turning on the TV, talking to his mom, and now attempting to wake me, Mike woke me up full into the nightmare. I awoke to see footage of the second plane being replayed. Numbly, I crawled down from the top of the bunk we shared and sat with Mike in silence. He said goodbye to his mom shortly, knowing others would need the phone lines too. I couldn't begin to describe all the emotions flooding through me when I saw the first tower collapse. Disbelief and a feeling of extreme unreality. Shock and grief at the realization that there were likely to be thousands still inside both towers. Anger at whoever would visit this upon unsuspecting and largely innocent men and women; and children too, I realized. Disgust at the very idea that human beings are capable of such a slaughter. There are few words that even come close to appreciating the full range and intensity of emotion experienced that day. Hundreds of years from now, historians may look upon this day knowing its facts. They will never be able to know it like we do, much as we will never know the intensity and emotion of there time. Numbers and letters can be written down, but they only mean so much. Even memories fade in time. I will never forget the one lasting lesson that I took from that day. The phrase that sums it up is L'Chaim! To Life! In all the bloodshed and horror, in all the hatred and fighting, in all the dark times this world has to offer, the one surest way to honor those who have fallen is to live, and savor 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 story9520.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: September 11, 2001 was aday that changed my life forever. After 9-11-01 my life was changed dramaticly. That day was anormal day for me I just did what I always do the sme rutine beforeI head of to school,I took the bus to Lancaster High School I was in 11th grade. I always go to my math teachers class before school starts beacuse hes really cool, when I went to his class I heard this student talking to my teacher asking him if we are going to war. When I heard him say that I didnt know what he was talking about,so the bell rang I just went to class thinking nothing of what that guy just said,Then when I walked in the class room I head everybody talking about what happend, and I was like what are you guys talking about. Then the teacher turned on the tv and I saw on of the towers on fire, and I saw that aplane crashed into it and they showed all these people running, at that time I thought it was just a plane crash I didnt know that it was a terrorist attack, then all of a sudden I saw another plane come on the screen and I saw it was going straight towards the 2nd tower and then it hit the 2nd tower I just sat there in shock, I was speachless, then I found out that 2 other planes where hijacked and I put 2 and 2 toghether and realized that we are under attack by terrorist.The rest of the day wasnt the same,I was like a walking zombie not thinking right,all I could think about is thoses towers in New York and how could somebody be so evil enought to crash airplanes into the twin towers. Then that night they showed it all over the news and I couldnt get it out of my head.whenI saw a speacil tv program on tv about 9-11-01 and I realized how many innocent people died,and how many brave firefighters and policemen died trying to save someone elese life I started to cry. 9-11-01 made me relize that life can end anytime,it made me take life seriously,now im more patriotic, and I working on getting an American flag tattoed on my right arm. I love america with all my heart, 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 story10256.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: September 11, a day that started with promise and ended in dismay. I was on my way to Mount St. Mary?s College, for a 9:10am Philosophy of Religion Class. Suddenly, as I drove down the crowded 405N freeway, n interruption on the National News Station, was abruptly interrupted with reporters from New York frantically reporting the beginning tragedies of the day as the planes flew into the Twin Towers. All I could think is, ?Wow, our life has just changed in a matter of minutes.? As I arrived at school I immediately called my minister of LACC LAX sector who was expected to leave for New York this morning. Tears, welled in my eyes as I thought of my finance, mom, and family. Now, it is a year later and my life has changed drastically since that tragic day. I have graduated since then, got married, and have a baby on the way. I know understand how much this is as much as a spiritual battle as it is a physical battle. Protect us God. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story5217.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 English 9 with Mr. Bellonte it was exactly 10:12 A.M. I was sitting next to the window. Across from me was Kristen Daniels and in front of me while I watched the television screen was Jason Buffington. To be honest I talked for most of the period not even paying attention to what happened mostly because I didn't understand the magnitude to the whole thing. This class is fourth period more then two hours after these tragedies happened. I was just finding out then because I had Band and Gym. My next class was Earth Science with Mr. Goldpenny. During this period we watched CNN. This was the first time I'd thought to my self what really happened that was so important that we are missing are classes to watch this. So I sat there and just watched CNN the whole period and begun to understand the horrifying things that were happening. I had begun to realize that I was witnessing first hand something that in ten years will be in a history book. A little kid will be learning this years later because they were to young to see it on television as I did. They didn't get a chance to see a plane fly at full speed filled with innocent adults and kids thinking that they were going on a business trip or on a vacation to California go straight into the World Trade Center in the middle of New York City. That explosion was extremely horrifying, ten minutes later they showed a plane also heading to California crashing into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. Many people were killed in both the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Later that morning a plane crashed into the ground in Pittsburgh. After an investigation reporters said that plane was headed toward Washington, a group of passengers on that plane stood up to the terrorists, Instead of killing hundreds or even thousands of people, like the terrorists intended the men and women on the plane took there own lives to help prevent more devastation in America, hundreds of volunteers helped to clean up the remains from the World Trade Center and the pentagon. The estimate number of American dead from the disaster on the World Trade Center, Pentagon and the people on the airplanes were about 3,200. If there was one thing I could say to the person that is responsible for these horrible things is "How do you live with yourself?" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: i just cried all day watched tv all day.i think about allthose pepole every dat. 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 story3286.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I had the day off work on September 11th. I got up to do housework and turned on the t.v. to keep me company. The image I saw was of a building on fire. I thought "what am I seeing here?". As I watched and gathered more information, I saw the second plane hit the second tower. I sat in stunned disbelief. I couldn't believe what was happening. One of the commentators said there was no doubt after the second plane hit that this must be intentional. As reports that the pentagon had also been hit came in, I began to think that our nation really was under attack. I saw images of the White House being evacuated and then heard another plane was not responding to air traffic controllers. That turned out to be the plane that went down in Pennsylvania.When I saw the towers fall, all I could think was that they had reported that there could be as many as 50,000 or 60,000 people in those towers. It seems shameful to be relieved that less than 4,000 actually lost their lives. But when you think about how many could have perished it really was a blessing that more did not die. My heart aches for all the families who lost a loved one that day. Innocent people died that day in mass. It was so senseless. From people going to work, people flying in planes,firefighters responding to the call, police and ambulance personel...And the families that were left behind to try to pick up the pieces.I have the greatest sense of sadness for them. They have to go on in this world. All of the people who were lost were taken to a much better place to live with God. What a joyous way to end this story, for there is no better place than heaven.This country will never be the same, and I won't ever be the same either. 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 story4764.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: Upper St. Clair (Pittsburgh, PA)native witnessed N. Y. attack By David M. Brown TRIBUNE-REVIEW (9/16/2001) Scott Pasquini awoke Tuesday in his Manhattan apartment excited about the start of his new career. Instead, the next few hours unfolded in scenes of unspeakable horror, forever changing the world around him. Pasquini, 22, who grew up in Upper St. Clair (Pittsburgh, PA) and graduated from Princeton University in May (2001), looked forward to his second real day on the job as a corporate financial adviser for Merrill Lynch, following a two-month training stint. "There were a lot of new things going on for me. I had just started to meet everybody that I was going to be working with," Pasquini said Saturday in an interview. The family was reunited late Friday at his parents' home in Upper St. Clair for the first time since the attacks. An eye-witness to the destruction of the World Trade Center, Pasquini said the experience was etched permanently in his mind--a series of gruesome images as indelible as snapshots from a camera. Shortly before 9 a.m., he was about to make the seven-minute hike from his apartment building past the twin towers to his office in the adjacent World Financial Center. "I was getting dressed in my bedroom and it sounded like a loud crash," he recalled. "Then I started to hear debris shower down on the building." Glancing from the window, he saw debris scattered across the lanes of West Street. A van swerved, jumped the median, and peeled off in the opposite direction. "This was very strange." On the way out, Pasquini asked the doorman if a car bomb had exploded. "Yeah, maybe," the doorman replied. "It must have been a meat truck or something. There's, like, meat all over the place." Pasquini saw a torso with no arms or legs in the street. Two hysterical women were pointing at a severed human hand on the ground, and a running man quickly covered it with his jacket. Nearby, Pasquini, still thinking it might have been a car bomb, saw a car that was partially ripped open, its rear windshield shattered. But the scope of the disaster quickly become apparent as he saw a gaping hole, flames shooting from it, in one of the World Trade Center towers. "In the eight weeks I've lived in New York, everytime I saw the World Trade Center, I thought, "'Man, those things are so impressive. They're so tall and so massive.' I never got used to the height of those buildings and the massive size." "Now, the north tower was on fire." Pasquini tried using his cell phone to call his parents, Russ and Karen Pasquini, and his brother Brian in Shadyside to tell them he was OK. After many attempts, he got through. "Then all of a sudden, I heard the jet engine of a plane coming right over the top of us. It sounded definitely like a full-throttle screeching noise. I was it a split second before it just few right into the building. "Before I turned and ran with everyone else, you could just see the tail end of the plane and a huge plume of smoke around where the impact was." Smoke and debris spewed into the sky, falling in the direction of the crowd. Flames were shooting from both towers. "Debris started falling all around us. People were panicked to keep moving, but they were not screaming or hysterical. They were in shock, I think. It was kind of like a heavy hailstorm, but not that thick. It was more like small particles of glass. "You could definitely smell the jet fuel or whatever it was. It was a dirty smell, different from anything." Then he saw people jumping from high up one of the towers. "Every few minutes somebody would jump. They were tiny images, but you could make out the color of their clothes. A few guys who jumped looked like they were on fire. "We didn't want to watch it, but everywhere you looked, it was there." Pasquini didn't become frightened until he saw one of the towers explode in the middle, crashing in upon itself. (He saw somebody jump into the river to escape. Pasquini shielded himself under a medial barrier. He couldn't see or breathe in the heavy cloud. Pasquini removed his shirt and wrapped it around his head. He blindly groped toward glass windows that he remembered. Cupping his hands against the window, he could see people inside pointed the way toward a door. He got inside a restaurant, out of the cloud. Others poured pitchers of water over his face. Taking a tablecloth and water, Pasquini helped to wash away the blood of other people's wounds.) He and others took refuge inside a restaurant to escape the stifling, gray dust. With a tremendous explosion of collapsing metal, the second tower came down; and the second cloud blotted out the daylight. As light returned, matter was falling everywhere like a dirty gray snow. Pasquini and others were evacuated from the Battery Park marina at the tip of Manhattan Island, crossing the Hudson River on a small (overcrowded to near-sinking) police boat to the New Jersey side. (At this point, he was dirty and displaced among hundreds of other refugees. His brother Brian remembered friends in Jersey City where arrangements were made to take Scott into their home temporarily.) He expect(ed) to return to work at Merrill Lynch the next week, although officials told him it may be weeks or months before they can return to the World Financial Center. While Pasquini still looks forward to his new career, the world that was just beginning for him (Tuesday, 9/11/2001) will never be that bright again. "Undoubtedly, the United States has changed forever." With a tremendous 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 story1656.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 sat at my desk working on lesson plans commemorating the upcoming anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor when my brother called to tell me he heard that a plane hit one of the twin towers. Initially I chuckled, because not but a week before a person hang gliding (or something close to that) stuck themself onto the Statue of Liberty. When we talked we thought it had to be an accident of a very small plane. A few minutes later, my mother called from CT and told me that both towers had been struck and she witnessed it live on TV. She was in complete shock, as was I. I tried to pull up anything on the web, but it was frozen. At that moment, the Museum Director flung open my door telling me that the World Trade Center had been hit. We were all pretty stunned, but kept working because we didn't have any information--until the 3rd plane struck the Pentagon. I work at the Washington Navy Yard which is but a few miles from the Pentagon. There is a decommissioned ship here, USS Barry, and the sailors on board it saw the Pentagon explosion from the deck of the ship. My Director again ran into my office and told me we had to evacuate the building of visitors because the Pentagon had been attacked. He was a basket case, but I tried to remain calm I walked around telling visitors that they would have to leave. At the time, a group of Navy WWII veterans were in the museum, and they weren't too concerned. Sadly, their bus was not allowed to leave the Navy Yard because we experienced a lockdown--no one could leave or enter the Yard. I returned to my office and was able to call my Mom to tell her that I was okay, which was good because the phone lines were jammed for the next few hours. She hadn't gone to work yet so was still at home watching this on TV. After a few minutes, we were all called to an emergency staff meeting, so I had to get off the phone with Mom and it was very difficult. At that moment I was very scared that DC might not make it through the rest of the day in one piece, and that I might not see anyone I loved again. From that point on, the museum staff was glued to a poorly-working TV in one room and a small radio in another. No one could leave, so we watched and listened. Seeing the towers fall to the ground for the first time was overwhelming. Also around that time, late in the morning, a lot of reports--later proven false--about explosions at the White House, State Dept, and Capitol circulated in the news causing everyone a lot of worry. By noon, the Navy Yard opened for people to leave in stages by distance. I was in the last group to leave because I live 8 miles form work. As a result I left work about 1:30 and was the last one in the Museum. It was very creepy, because I could see the smoke from the Pentagon out our front entrance--in fact through the museum's periscopes the fire and smoke could be seen quite well. I went home a different route than normal because I usually drive by the Pentagon to get home. The highway was closed near there, so I avoided traffic and went the long way. I decided to stop and buy some groceries at a local market before going home in case anything else was to happen later in the day or week. To my surprise the store was pretty empty for the middle of the day. One thing that I noticed was that everyone was looking up, and nodding, half-smiling, or acknowledging everyone in their paths. It was kind of comforting, because I couldn't get the tears out of my eyes. When I got home, my brother watched everything on TV and caught me up on the latest news. I found that a lot of my friends tried to get in touch to be sure I was okay. Earlier at work, email networks were down, but when emails moved, I tried telling everyone that i was okay. All I could do was sit down because it was all so unbelievable and very scary. Later that day, I sent emails to friends of mine in NYC to check on their well being. Before going to bed that night, I took a good look up in the sky at the stars. From our apartment we heard jets and helicopters circling the Pentagon and DC all night. It was very disconcerting and unreal. I thought for sure we would be attacked again. Upon awaking the next morning, I walked out onto our balcony to see that the Pentagon was still on fire, and heard air traffic again. At that point, I was relieved that we made it through the night, but did not know what would come next. 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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 know that I don't live as close to the WTC towers as most of you, but it scared me and the rest of my friends just as bad! I'm only a student and I was at school on 9/11/01. The day seemed just like every boring school day. Then all of a sudden my Principle came in the room...whispered something into my english teachers ear. My english teacher was about to flip out...my teacher stopped are video and turned on the news, every stared at the tv. He turned the news on just in time to watch the second plane be crashed! Everyone in the class including me couldn't believe it, we didn't know what to do or say! Some started to cry, I didn't cry but I was horrified..cause my cousin travels for his job and he was in NY. As a matter of fact his was suppose to come home that day! I was so scared cause I didn't know if he was on the plane or not.. Glad to say he wasn't, and I'm really sorry for the families and friends of the ones who were on bored any of the planes! Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story1664.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 I was on vacation traveling through Slovenia with my wife and in-laws. During the time of the attacks we were hiking in the mountains, blissfully unaware of what was going on in the U.S. In fact, we didn't know anything about it until the next day when the proprietor of the bed and breakfast that we had checked into late on the 11th realized that we didn't know, and told us. I should say, he told my in-laws in Serbo-Croation. I only recognized words like "New York" "Washington, DC" and "Pentagon" but from his tone, I knew the news couldn't be good. Over breakfast we saw a few clips from CNN, and heard the first snippets of the horrible story. But in the first translation I received, only one tower had collapsed. Pressed for time, we had to travel on. But we spent most of the 12th driving and talking and speculating in shock and disbelief with only the sketchiest of details. I for one was certain that it couldn't have been commercial jets, it must have been small planes with bombs. When we found it out that it was commercial jets, I was sure there must have been confederates on the ground that smuggled weapons aboard. The truth just seemed too impossible. Over the next few days we finally gathered most of the readily known details through hard to get English language copies of the International Herald Tribune, and German tabloids. My mother-in-law, with only a passing knowledge of U.S. history voiced her desire for "a new era of McCarthyism" and a general desire to live in a police state. In the solemnity of the moment I refrained from arguing with her. But inside I felt fairly certain that this one awful event would set up rationalizations for new attacks on civil liberties. Our mood on the rest of the vacation was rather subdued, though we were always in a quiet and pleasant atmosphere, and felt very removed from the turmoil at home. By the time we came back to the U.S in late September things had calmed down a bit. But I have developed the sense that I missed it, and know it mostly as a historical event, much the same way I know about Pearl Harbor, primarily through documentary materials, but not something that I really lived through, even though it continues to effect us daily. 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 story191.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. 2002-03-08 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 68.33.64.145 Annotation Annotations to this item. Americans overseas Civil Liberties/Discrimination Television Coverage INTERNATIONAL