394 20 70359 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I am a Cat Scan Technologist at Silver Cross Hospital. I was on my way to work when the first plane hit the Towers. I was not sure if it was a joke, because the radio stations have a habit of stretching the truth. When I got to work, I turned on the TV in the waiting room and watched with awe at the events that were unfolding. I had to start scanning patients eventually, so we just kept coming back to the waiting room in between. We had to biopsy a patient's lung. It was very difucult to concentrate when I knew in the other room things were happening. We heard about the Pentagon and that there were 10 planes still missing. At that point I wanted to go home to Kankakee and be with my family. My 3 boys were at school or at the sitter. It's hard working so far from home. That day was especially hard. But we got through it somehow and I went home and sat with my children and watched the horror unfold on TV. We prayed for them to find someone alive. It happened a few times. It was very heart breaking. I was going to surprize my husband with tickets to the Miami Hurricane football game that was that weekend. I had arranged airfare, hotel, and a day off of work for us both. It was my anniversary gift to him. The game was cancelled the day I showed him the tickets. We didn't want to fly anyway. So we ended up going to a Bed & Breakfast in Galena, IL. It was a strange weekend. There were flags flying everywhere. The little towns we went through had flags lining their streets. Flags were flying from grain bins. People had put flags on top of cranes. It was very moving. The town people of Galena lit candles and placed them in paper sacks. They must have put hundreds of them along their river. It was beautiful but sad. We will never forget what happened that day. The pictures are still fresh in our memories. We are very glad that this country pulled together and showed their support. As usual, I am proud to be an American. I always have been, but this was a special time for pride. 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 story6332.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-12 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 64.12.96.8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: My name is Donna. On 9-11-01 I was in my bed thinking that I was recovering from a gallbladder surgury. I lay in my bed and watched as the news broke for a major news story. I wasn't as well as I thought I was, so I just laid there and remember saying to myself that alot of people just lost their lives and for what and why is this happening. The next day I was put on life support. I wasn't recovering at all. It took me a few days after being in the hospital for people to tell me that we were in a WAR. My heart just broke in two. I felt helpless, that I was in this stupid hospital and I couldn't help anybody. I didn't leave for 46 days. But as my family let me (trying to help me) watch the news I was amazed how Americans were all pulling together to help one another. It was a time for love and lots of it. And we as a nation did that and are still doing it. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story5431.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 about to travel from Tokyo to Nagano to give a speech, when a typhoon interrupted. I had to spend the night of the 11th (middle of the night here in the US) in a hotel near the train station, and the TV had no English speaking news. I awoke very early to catch the first train up to Nagano, and turned on the TV to see if I could understand the weather report. I kept seeing this strange sight - looking like a replay of a bad movie - but still no English. It was only 5 AM in Tokyo (4PM in New York) and I finally figured out that this was real and that disaster of some sort had occurred. For the next two days I was in Nagano, where everyone was very concerned and sorrowful, but I desperately needed to be with other Americans. Finally I went back to Tokyo to await a plane to return to Atlanta, and went to a Hilton. Suddenly I had many other Americans to grieve with, to hang around the two computers to check on airlines, and even to go to the American Embassy. I was lucky to be on the first Delta plane that went from Tokyo to Los Angeles, and of course, everyone cheered when the plane took off - including the crew who had been in Tokyo the entire week too. I never felt so far away as I did during those days, and even though I called my family members twice a day, it was certainly wonderful to be back home. 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 story223.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. 2002-03-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 66.190.92.164 Annotation Annotations to this item. Airline Personnel Americans overseas Television Coverage INTERNATIONAL Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: On september 11,2001 I was at Iberville Elementary school in the 3rd grade.On that day I heard when I got home that a plane hit the twin towel with people till in it.I was thinking why it had to happen to them and on that day.I am happy in a way cause it wasn't us.On september 11 it had over 2,000 people died.It had officers,fire people,the people that worked there,and visters that died.i learn 5 years ago that on this day SEPTEMBER 11 is one day is speical to the people that had somebody they lost. 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 story20529.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2006-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 68.186.239.238 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 next day I sent out this email to people I knew. Sunday at about noon the sewer backed up into my house so I spent a few good hours cleaning the mess up until I had things clean enough to try and snake the pipes and fix the problem after several unsuccessful try's I finally got fed up and called the plumber now Monday morning. who ever I called said they would be there in a few hours so I moved the washer dryer and everything else in the way. but at 2:30 I called again to see what was taking so long. the person on the other end of the phone (who sounded exactly like the person I talked to in the morning) said this isn't a plumbing company. so I call up plumbing company #2 they show up quite promptly (rescue rooter if you care :-) )he snakes out the drain and everything seems cool I pay him $130 he leaves and I start to put the washer and dryer back while reconnecting the washing machine the entire fixture crumbles to dust (or rust) and I get hit with a tiny piece of metal scratching my stomach (not bad and I didn't notice till 5 hours afterwards) and pouring hot water all over me and anything else in the vicinity. I immediately run to the main shut off valve for the house only to find that it is in such disrepair that it won't shut all the way off when pushed to the complete off position it still lets water in the house lightly so after about 40 minutes I get the water shutoff to such a matter that the water is no longer pouring in through the now destroyed copper tubing in the basement. I rush to home depot to buy the parts needed to re-soder the pipes back together and quickly reconstruct the branch of pipes. I get a good working part to now connect to the house where I proceed to try and soder to a piece of pipe that is cut and stable enough for the new pipe to connect to. (back in my mind I forget that you can't soder pipes with any water running through them) so for about 3 hours I try welding the pipes and start to burn a nice hole in the wall (yes I had a fire extinguisher close by I'm stupid not a moron :-) ) eventually I remember that I can't weld pipes that have water in them (at least not with my working knowledge.) so I rush to the main cut off and try to shut it off again only to find that now with any movement the water is either ON or trickling through the system. I get the system running back to nothing and then remember that I am working on the hot water line and try to shut off the water running to the hot water heater. and guess what that too is old and corroded and will just spin and shut nothing off (could be worse this could have crumbled in my hands too) finally I get the water back to a trickle again and put the bucket underneath the dripping broken line and pretty much cutting off all water to the house for all intensive purposes and look on the internet for a fabled home depot that is open 24 hours a day its now Tuesday morning at 1:15 am holy cow there is one listed so I rush over to it on the other side of town taking 30 minutes to get there and find out they recently changed their hours to close at midnight. so disheartened I go back home I wait till 6:00 am to go to the home depot close by my house. I get the second spool of soder and some sand paper and some more pipe since I had demolished a good chunk of my earlier set of parts with my mind numbing sodering water flowing pipes. lovely as the days have been going now home depot has no cash registers working since whoever was in charge of that didn't show up yet eventually the person shows up and I get my stuff out of there. knowing now that I couldn't do welding myself I called up rescue rooter and sat in front of the TV on the news there is a building on fire. and the reporters are saying a plane crashed into the building then right in front of my eyes the second plane comes in and slices right through the top of the other tower I'm instantly wondering if I'm watching a movie then figure out that its actually happening and tell the person at rescue rooter what happened and that I still needed help she said there would be someone over in a few hours I continue to watch the TV finding out about the pentagon along the way taking only a few minutes away to change the bucket I've got filling with water down stairs and rebuilding the pipes that I can take outside away from running water. I see the first building crash to the ground and here the reporters still apparently afraid of making a false early prediction saying that the building has "reportedly fallen" a few minutes later the second building crashes to the ground and all I can think of is there were firefighters in there trying to get people out. I sit stunned in front of the TV waiting for the plumber to arrive at about 10:30 he arrives and we go downstairs to work on the pipes (well him work and me watching and asking what I am sure are stupid questions) and listen to the radio commenting on how pointless this all is. finally the plumber finishes and I write him a check. I call my dad/landlord talk to him about the mess in NYC and Washington. and tell him the unfortunate news that the house needed repairs that I can't afford and got a check from him so that the checks I wrote wouldn't bounce. he says I can pick it up as soon as I can get over there. I clean up the flooded area and put a load of wash in the washing machine and start it up and head over to get the check I suddenly remember that I didn't put the outlet pipe into the storm drain I run immediately home to find the washer had run through its entire cycle and now there was about an inch of water on the floor. I promptly put the outlet pipe into the drain and again vacuum up the water all over the floor now for the third time. I finally finish about 7PM still watching the TV and reports and then start another load of laundry I sit down upstairs for a breather and then at about 10:00 go down to see change a load of laundry just to find another inch of water covering the floor I panic thinking the hose fell out of the drain but then find out that the entire drain is backed up again I do a quick clean up then run to the 24 hour (now 16 hour) home depot and buy a better snake then I originally had. and then rush back until about 12 midnight I continue to snake the drain coming up with nothing. finally at about 2 I quit and wait till morning to call the rescue rooter people again (I can't afford emergency time to be paid and I'm so tired I can't do anything) I sleep for a while tossing every 30 minutes wondering if the water is filling up the basement or how people in NYC are doing. finally 8 o'clock runs around and I call the plumbers again they will show up at about noon so I continue to clean and do other things felling quite dirty since I hadn't run any water in about 2 days now. at noon the guy comes in and snakes out both drains finds out the problem is that roots have invaded the pipes and I should put root killer in drain 2 times a year. he leaves at about 1:30 and I continue to clean up the mess in the basement. finally now at 5:00 Wednesday I sit down to write what happened to me probably just for a mental dump and to thank god I've got my life and while even unemployed things are not even close to as bad as it could be. so now I'm going to go get something to eat take a shower and pray for those still alive in the rubble and for their families and the families of those who have lost others. hope your doing ok. Jim 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 story1043.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. 2002-08-18 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 12.253.228.109 Annotation Annotations to this item. DOMESTIC Sep 11- Sep 21, 2001 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: WELL WHEN I FIRST HEARD WHAT WAS HAPPENNING I WAS SCARED CAUSE I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT I JUST FEEL BAD FOR THE ONES THAT LOST A LOVE ONE IN THE TRADE CENTER HOPEFULLY THEY COULD KEEP ON WITH THERE LIFE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE WILL NEVER FORGET. WHAT DID WE DO WRONG SO SOMETHING LIKE THIS COULD HAPPEN TO US AND ESPECIALLY SOMETHING THAT MEANS TO US WHY DID ALL THIS HAVE TO HAPPEN THERES ALOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE AFFECTED BY IT. IT IS NOT GOING TO BE EASY FOR THE MOTHERS THAT LOST THERE BABIES IN THE TRADE CENTER INNOCENT LITTLE BABIES THEY WERE ABOUT TO EXPERINCES BUT ONE GOOD THING IS THAT THEY WENT TO HEAVEN HOPEFULLY THEY ARE HAPPY UP THERE WITH GOD BUT TO THE MOTHERS THAT HAD THERE BABIES IN THE TRADE CENTER THEY ARE GOING TO BE GOOD TAKING CARE OF FOR SURE. HOPEFULLY NOTHING LIKE THIS HAPPENS AGAIN I WAS READING A STROY ABOUT THIS LADY THAT LOST HER HUSBAND SHE WAS VERY UPSET SHE DIDNT NOW WHY GOD TOOK HER HUSBAND BUT MAYBE IT WAS FOR A GOOD REASON IF YOU READ THIS MRS.KATY DONT LET YOUR SELF DOWN YOUR KIDS NEED YOU MORE THEN ANTHING. 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 story7370.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: Hi my name is Edwin Henry Lawrence and I'am so proud to be an American!!. It was a beautiful day that morning in Western Washington, the Pacific Northwest is a very beautiful part of our great nation. I was on my way to work, and meeting up with my long time friend to complete a flooring job in Seattle. I was listening to the radio(KZOK FM) as I was commuting to work. One of the radio DJ's had mentioned that an airplane had hit the World Trade Center, I was thinking to myself How in the world can someone fly into a stucture of that size! I contiued on and the radio DJ was annoucing that it seems to be more and more serious. I began to drive a little faster and arrived at my friends house a little early. When I got to his house I ran up the driveway and began knocking on the door, yelling Bob wake up!! wake up!! My friend ansered the door and said"What's going on Eddie?" mind you he was still in his underwear.I said "hey I'am sorry i'am early but there is something terrible happening in New York, please could you turn on the t.v." and he said " wow ok " he turned on the tv and we could not even begin to believe our eyes. I emmediatly began to feel sick to my stomach and started to cry. Bob called to his wife to wake up and get in hear. I was so sick to my stomach I almost started to vomit! We watched the news for a while and were getting the kids ready for school and eating some breakfast and drinking some coffee. Suddenly the first tower collapsed and we just looked at eachother and started to pray to God to help those people trapped inside and the brave Fire Fighters that we just saw entering the towers, and also The brave Police Men and Women. There were so many questions going through my mind, that I just could'nt believe it.I cried that whole day and for about 5 days afterwards. I was a mess emotionally and angered at who could commit an atrotious act as this. To this day it is still hard for me to imagine the sad loss of life on thet terrible day, Oh God as I'am writing this I'am fighting tears of total sorrow and pain!! I need to stop for a moment and relax: I'am sorry, I'am a very emotional fellow. I'am so proud of President George Bush, Mayor Gulliani and to all the Doctors, Nurses, and Firefighters and Police Officers, Peremedicts and everyone who helped in rescue attemps along with all the Workers at Ground Zero!! I will wear my Red White and Blue Colors today with great pride and always remember that I live in the Greatest Country In The World!! GOD BLESS AMERICA AND THE BRAVE PEOPLE IN THE MILITARY WHO ARE FIGHTING TO PRESERVE EACH AND EVERYONES FREEDOM!!! VERY SINCERELY EDWIN H. LAWRENCE!! 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 story4999.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was at the bank where I worked and it seemed like a normal morning until my husband called. He had said that a plane had just hit one of the world trade center towers and that I should turn on the television. I quickly told my coworkers as I hurried to the kitchen to turn on the TV. We were all watching as some of us were calling family and friends when all of a sudden another plane struck the other tower. We were all in shock and were wondering who and why. We were also scared as to what else these murderers were planning to do. I remember someone saying after the second plane hit " we had better get down on our knees and pray". I still remember my 4 year old daughter asking me why this happened as she had tears in her eyes because she understood that those poor people were dying. 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 story6014.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 getting ready for work, watching the local news on Channel 2 (KWGN) when it was announced that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center. I assumed that it was a small private plane, maybe a jealous ex-boyfriend going after someone who worked in the building or something like that. The images on television only showed the smoking hole in the side of the building, so it was hard to gauge what type of plane had crashed or the magnitude of the damage. As information slowly began to trickle in, it became apparent that it was actually a large passenger jet that had crashed. I still assumed that this was probably some horrible, isolated freak accident and thought back to the B-25 bomber that crashed into the Empire State Building in 1948. Then as I continued to watch, the second plane crashed into the South tower and I immediately knew that this was no accident. I vividly recall an anchorman on one of the national news networks speculating that some "FAA beacon" was malfunctioning and diverting the planes into the towers. This was quickly dismissed by a pilot being interviewed, who pointed out that pilots use their eyes in addition to their instruments and surely would have seen and avoided the towers long before they would have struck them. In spite of the horrific events I was watching unfold on TV, I still planned on (reluctantly) going into work that day. Then reports came in that a plane had also struck the Pentagon and it became obvious that our country was under attack. I called work and told them there was no way I could come in and be effective. I spent the rest of the day watching all of the news networks in both shock and fascination, astonished at the magnitude of what was happening, wondering who had done this, if there were more attacks to come and what the final outcome of these events would be. The whole thing was just so surrealistic, like something I would expect to come across in a work of fiction. 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 story4571.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. 65.102.217.113 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: Got the kids off to school.then I recieved a phone call from my sister in law. She tells me that a plane just hit the trade center. I turned on the tv and said those damn traffic controllers what are they doing! As I watched another plane hit the other tower,and then I knew something was very wrong.My mom needed to go food shopping so we went as we arrived we heard that the pentagon was hit . She needed to do other shopping but one the way home I heard that tower one collapsed and I needed to go home. It was devasting news. I chose not to take my children out of school.I wanted to delay this news. When my high schoolers came home My oldest was devasted as he was told that the pentagon was under was under attack period! the rest was left to his imagination. He had spent most of the day in the nurses office. If I would have known he would have been home with me.My husbands cousin was a Port authority cop at the time and thankfully he was safe! About 9 months later I was cutting amans hair when he told me about being in 911 and that he was saved by some one he only knew the badge number and it turned to be my husbands cousin who unfortunatly has no recollection of it!!!I belive it is my duty to bring these two together 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 story20392.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2006-09-10 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 68.37.50.4 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: Well on September 11 it started has a reguler day for everyone i got up around 6:00am to head of to school. well around the time the plane had it WTC tower 1 i was sitting in 3rd p.d class. while are principle says hold all classes. then about 5 min later he came back on the PA system and told what have happen. About that time some people had came outside to tempery class rooms and said that we where not safe out here. So we were moved inside.while i am crying im trying to find out why this happen.i mean i am 15 now but was 14 when it happen. i gussed i understand some what of what was going on but not sure why it was going on.well about an hour later we had to be sent home. that hour was the longest hour of my life.when i finaly got home walking up over the hill to my house with my friends crying and sad of what had happen. i stoped and looked uo in the sky. there was no clouds in site and all was still no planes. thats wired cuse i only live 15 min away from BWI airport. then it really hit me that this had happen to our country and still not really undertsanding why.Then i finaly got in my house and watch how the towers had fell and all the people that where still in there and thinking how terbile that is.that the world had changed for ever but in the end it only made us stronger.looking around all i see is people helping one onther out and putting aside the little things.i guess it's kinda hard to understand how i feel cuse i am only a teen but it's kinda hard in 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 story1852.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. 2002-09-07 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 64.12.96.135 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: I can remember when school had just started and I was getting ready for school. I was listing to one of my mix CD's. When I got to school I was looking around trying to friend one of my friends to tell me what was the history homework. I was worried because I forgot to do my homework. When it was break in our school I started to see teachers talking to each other and I was kind of getting worried because I over heard that a plane had crashed in the world trade center at first I was trying to figure out where was it but then I remembered. Then I was rushing to my class to see what was going on. Then is we started to watch the news and we saw that one of the towers was in smoke. My first reaction was "whoa who did this." I couldn?t believe my eyes, in my head I couldn?t image a plane hit into a building, but then I watch as the second plane went into the second tower. That just made me feel kind of sad, angry, bad, but mostly stunned. I thought that was it just those to planes because the news said that all the fights are not to take off into the air. I heard that a third plane had hit the pentagon, I could not imagine how people all over the country were feeling, but I could see how people were in shock, in terror, in grief. Thought the whole day I was just thinking about it, how are things going to be after this day, how people gonna look at each or come together, are things gonna change with the airport. All this was on my mind during school and after school when I got home "man this is just crazy. I could still remember in chorus we were sing some America song and that day we sang our hearts out. 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 story7737.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. 2002-09-17 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 151.188.17.4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was in eighth grade and first period had just ended, so I went to my science teacher's classroom, which was also where the Spanish teacher from the high school taught my period two class. The science teacher had a TV on a wheeled stand with the news on when I came in. I didn't fully comprehend what had happened until later that day. When I first saw the images on TV, it was a long-distance shot, so the towers looked to me like ordinary smokestacks. It didn't take long to figure out that the WTC towers had been hit, but even then, I didn't realize how big the towers were, or that so many people couldn't get out in the time they had before the towers fell. We watched the news for a while, and at some point another class came in and watched it with us, but then the principal told us to go back to a normal schedule. Almost all of the television channels were running the same thing, so that you could channel-surf through the same coverage, the same images, for sometimes ten and fifteen channels at a time. Also my family had trouble getting our facts straight. We didn't know at first if Flight 93 had been shot down by a U.S. missile, and I remember hearing a report of a fire alarm or something going off at the White House. 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 story5470.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: When the planeds crashed into the twin towers that day I was in my science class. Someone came to the door and told the teacher to turn the T.V on and of course she did. She turned it to the news and our first glimpse was that of a plane crashing nto one of the towers. People were gasping and saying "Oh my God." I hadn't actually heard much of the Towers before that. I mean, I knew what they were and all but I never thought of them as something so huge as to be a target by a group of terrorists. I was still however, in a state of awe I guess when I saw them collapse. After the towers it shifted over to the Pentagon and that's when I got worried. My dad had gone to the Pentagon earlier in the day and he was still there when the plane hit it. I was relieved to discover that his business was to be taken care of on the other end of the building. After school we watched it on the news and I wasn't really affected by it after that. 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 story2248.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 151.188.37.252 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: One 9/11 me and my mother was watching the news and we saw the planes crash in two the world trafe center my mother brust out crying and when I saw it It had happen I was so sad I started to cry I though why would people do such a thing it was so said 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 story20356.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2006-09-09 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 69.164.6.78 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was in 6th grade in math class, when my teacher was called down to the office, i was confused, what could be possibly going on. When she came back, she wouldnt tell us why she was called down. I thought she was in trouble or something. But when i got home my mom was pretty upset, and she told me that the world trade center and pentagon had been hit by a plane hijacked by terroritst. I couldnt beliueve it, i was in shock and upset, and also angry, why would anyone do something like that? 5 years later i am still very upset and still shocked by this attack, my life will never be the same. The only thing i can compare this to is pearl harbor. 9/11/01 will be a day i will always remember and never forget Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story20497.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2006-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 151.188.16.21 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was in 4th hour which is science when i found out. I did't really think about it till i got home and was watching the news.I think i will always remember the way I felt when i saw the news it was a mixture of anger and and pitty.I'm thankful none of my family was there but my heart goes out to all the families that lost loved ones. And remember WE'RE AMERICANS WE STAND TALL AND DONT BACK OFF AND WE WONT REST TILL JUSTACE HAS BEEN SERVED!!!!! 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 story5306.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 66.138.40.158 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: During the morning of Sept. 11 around 9:00, I had just dropped off our son at school. On my way back home, I turned on the car radio to listen to one of the Atlanta morning shows. The hosts were all excited about something, but i could not figure out what it was. Finally, one of the hosts said, "If you have just tuned in ... a plane just crashed into the side of one of the twin towers ...". I did not know what to think about this. The radio personalities were assuming it was just a freak accident. Then they reported that another plane flew into the other building ... this was no accident. What the hell was happening. I parked in our driveway and ran into the house, turned on the news and just sat there trying to figure all of this out. All the news shows kept replaying their tape of the 2nd plane crashing, people running all over the streets of Nw York. Then the news broke about a 3rd plane crashing into the Pentagon. Before the third plane crash I was just in shock, but when the Pentagon was attack, it hit home. I have a friend and her fiance, at the time, who work at the pentagon. They are part of the K-9 unit. I lost it. I kept thinking she could have been hurt or worse. I called my husband at work. I called my mother. My husband, Bob, decided to come home and pick up or son on his way. My friend Sarah and her fiance, Bill, were okay. 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 story1417.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-08-23 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 68.32.75.135 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: On this day of tragedy, i was in school. My girlfriend and me already left for lunch to go to her house to do some studies. By 2:45 pm ( German time ) i drove back home and switched the TV on. I could'nt believe my eyes what i saw there, first i thought this is a new action movie until i realized what was happening. My boyfriend from Arlington, Virginia, was here with me in Germany back that time. He was sitting at the computer and i called him to tell him that the WTC and the Pentagon is burning. His house is only 5 minutes away from the Pentagon. These terrible attacks really hit me hard, because i was in New York 2 years before and have seen the WTC. I went back to New York in January 2002 to vistit Ground Zero and i left a note for the relatives. Writing this is still bringin tears into my eyes and if i had the chance i would even go to the light display of the WTC. 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 story216.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. 2002-03-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 195.93.73.10 Annotation Annotations to this item. Memorials/Vigils (location or person) WTC, pre-911 INTERNATIONAL 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: This is not much but it is my story. On the morning of September 11th 2001, I was watching Good Morning America in a car dealership waiting room (waiting for my wife's car to be serviced). Suddenly, the news broke that something had happened at the World Trade Center. They showed Tower 1 on fire and I watched in disbelief. At the time, they didn't know what had happened. They were speculating that either a plane had struck the tower or that possibly a missile had been fired at the building. Again, it was all speculation because nobody had spoken to an eye-witness yet. Just then, I was told that my wife's car was ready so I headed for work (about a 3 minute drive). While in the car, I left my wife and mom phone messages describing what I had seen on television. After that, I turned on the radio. At that moment, a radio reporter was interviewing an eye witness when suddenly he started screeming that the second tower had been hit. When I heard that, the hair on the back of my neck literally stood up. I was shocked. After that news, I rushed into a work parking spot, ran into the building, and watched the horror of September 11th unfold. I will never forget how I felt when I heard the second tower get hit. The sound of that man screaming will always be with me. 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 story1951.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. 2002-09-09 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 204.130.176.29