416 20 70359 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: It was strange. I was just working on a Kmart ad. I remember someone saying the World Trade Center just got hit by a plane. My first reaction was to think about the people in the building. What a horrible thing! It was hard to believe and at that time none of us knew that it was a terrorist attack. Then the second plane hit. I remember that I had a pit in my stomach thinking about what was happening to all of the people in the building and how anyone could cause such a tragedy. I worked in a hi-rise at the time and never in a million years would something like this ever cross my mind when going into work. We all listened to the radio. Some people were on the internet getting information. I remember that it was hard to think about work at all. The GM building closed down in Detroit. Everyone in the office called relatives and friends, as if they needed someone to confirm that this was happening. It took a long time to sink in. It's a year later. When I was visiting New York a couple of years ago I went to the top of the World Trade Center. I had a drink with a friend. I remember how unbelievable the view was from up there. I thought about how cool it was that I got to experience being at the top of New York City!! What a shame that there are people that will never be able to have that same experience. Part of us is missing now. The world will never be quite the same. Thanks for putting this site up. Someday people will read these experiences and be able to understand what September 11 was like for the people who listened a watched and experienced the tragedy. 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 story2967.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was in Latin class. My teacher came in and said that the World Trade Center had been hit by planes. I thought about it all day, and my mom and I talked about it when she picked me up from school. She was very upset. We watched the news that night and we found out that it was deliberate. What I remember best is the Latin class when we first heard about the incident, and that there were many wild speculations before that. Ever since September 11th we have watched the news every night, and I have become more aware of the situation in the Middle East, and the state of world affairs. No one in my family was lost in the attacks. 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 story2117.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 my school, Cora Kelly Magnet School.We were in the middle of Language Arts Class with Mrs.reeves. she told me to turn on the Tv And listen to the news. All I could do was cry. One of my best friends got a phone call one minute after from her mom saying that her dad had died in the crash. i felt like my heart was going drop. It felt like i was going to die. 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 story11444.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. 2005-06-10 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 206.158.3.10 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I had just arrived at work about 8:45AM, the phone was ringing. It was my mom, turn on the TV she says, a plane just went into the Twin Towers. I mmediately turned on the set and there it was the second plane crashing int te second building. As I sat there and watched in HORROR the people running for their lives, building finally collasped and I froze. Thinking of all the people that were trapped as the building just sunk. It was as if you had thrown a pebble in the water and it sank to the bottom. The phones at work started ringing, everyone that called was hysterical. Are you watching TV, the ultimate question, and OH my GOD I need to call NY and find out where my friends are or my family members, if they went to work today. Were they on time. Oh my God they may have been in that building. It left you utterly empty inside, as you sat there and watched. The whole day you could not function, thinking of all the innocent people that died unnecessarily. I yet get a knot in the pit of my stomach just remembering. I did no have anyone that perished on that sad day, but my heart goes out to all of those that lost someone. May the lord ever bless and keep each and every one of them. Continue to hold them up, keep them up in their spirtuality, and not let them give up on life. Hope is always there when you trust and believe in the lord, that he'll keep you strong and that everything will be alright. With much LUV. I'm signing off now. MY BLESSINGS AND HEARTFELT SYMPATHY TO ALL WHO READS THIS. MAY GOD EVER KEEP YOU. LICIA SCOTT 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 story4398.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 the morning of September 11, 2001, I was crossing the Manhattan Bridge heading to work in midtown. I was becoming frustrated because there were subway delays and I was thinking that I could have made a different connection in Brooklyn that would get me to work on time. At 9:06 a.m., the motorman or conductor announced that a plane hit the WTC. I was standing near the door facing this sight and saw both towers on fire. The South tower had smoke pouring out near the top and the North tower had fire and smoke pouring out above its mid section. I immediately thought of the loss of lives and felt such sadness and pain. I said out loud to another passenger standing with me at the window, "Oh my God, I hope its not terrorists or terrorism [my memory escapes me]." He replied that "it looks like a plane crashed into the building." As we very slowly continued to cross the bridge, the gash on the side of the North tower became visible. For the remainder of the trip I as did others sat numb with shock. I transferred to a bus continuing my trip and told some passengers that the WTC had been hit. The buildings could be seen from midtown, it looked devastating. By the time I reached my building, I was hysterically crying. Though I didn't personally know anyone at the time working in the buildings, I knew there was a great loss of lives. 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 story6262.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. 205.188.209.38 Notes Notes about this item. This is the unedited story: On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was crossing the Manhattan Bridge heading to work in midtown. I was becoming frustrated because there were subway delays and I thinking that I could have made a different connection in Brooklyn that would get me to work on time. At 9:06 a.m., the motorman or conductor announced that a plane had hit the WTC. I was standing near the door facing this sight and saw both towers on fire. The south tower had smoke pouring out near the top and the north tower had fire and smoke pouring out above its mid section. I immediately thought of the loss of lives and felt such sadness and pain. I said out loud to another passenger standing with me at the window, "Oh my God, I hope its not terrorists or terrorism (my memory escapes me)." He replied that "it looks like a plane crashed into the building." As we very slowly continued to cross the bridge, the gash on the side of the north tower became visible. For the remainder of the trip I as did others sat numb with shock. I transfered to a bus continuing my trip and told some passengers that the WTC had been hit. The buildings could be seen from midtown, it looked devasting. By the time I reached my building, I was hysterically crying. Though I didn't personally know anyone at the time working in the buildings, I knew there was a great loss of lives. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: At 1000pm on September 10,2001, my boyfriend and I boarded a flight from Chicago to San Fransisco. It was our first trip together. It was very late by the time we arrived and checked into the hotel. We stayed up talking for awhile then went to sleep. By the time we woke it was 9am Pacific time, 4 hours after everything began. And we had no idea. I called my parents to check in and they were frantic. I asked them what was wrong and the were amazed I hadn't any idea. As my mother explaind the events to me , my boyfriend turned on the television and there it was "Attack on America." We were in shock. We knew we had to get home. My boyfriend made many calls trying to rent a car with no luck. Finally we were able to rent one of the last cars in the city with the hotel's help. It was quite a drive home. The next day we saw the footage of the first plane crashing into the World Trade Center. It was especially hard to watch because we both work for American Airlines. We made it home 2 days later, and we were closer than ever having experienced that together. Today, we are married. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I can remember the morning of September 11th. I was walking to my 3rd period class, Global Studies. As I walked down the hall and passed some of the other classrooms I noticed that every teacher had CNN on. I didn't think much of it. It was not out of the ordinary for the teachers to be watching television. I kept walking to class. I went to class and noticed all of my fellow students were sitting in front of the television. Everyone was quiet. An eerie felling came over me as I sat down next to my best friends Jezikah, Kari and Sara. I looked at Jezikah and asked her what was going on. She looked at me and said that a plane had just crashed into one of the twin towers of the World Trade Center. It took me a few seconds to realize what she said and what that meant. Then she told me that they think it was a terrorist attack. I looked up at the television screen and watched the next events take place. They were all horrifying and shocking. I watched as they replayed the planes crashing into the towers, and then what seemed like minutes later watching them collapse. I remember seeing people running down the streets and some stopping to watch what was happening. I remember watching the reporters and listening intently to them as the told the whole world the aweful news. They were probably more shocked and scared than I was because they were standing right there watching it and experiencing every sound and sight. I remember all the other events, like the plane that crashed into the Pentagon and the White House being evacuated. I remember that my Global Studies teacher was very upset about what was going on. She too could not believe what was happening. I remember that she keep telling our class that we should remember everything that's happening, everything that we were thinking and all of our feelings because this was history we were seeing. Trust me I remember everything I thought and felt that day. The anger, the sadness, and the same question, why? Why were they doing this horrible thing to us? Why did they have to do this now? Why today and why now? Why so many people, so many innocent people? To this day I still do not understand why these people would do such a horrible thing. The only thing I wonder is why they hate us so much. I really don't understand. I can't believe they killed so many innocent people. Even now after all the suicide bombs and fighting I still can't understand why they would do such nasty and terrible things. I still feel angry, upset and confused about everything that happened on September 11th. I feel bad for all the innocent people who died in the attack on America and those who live in terrorist countries and have to live with all the noise and blood shed. 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 story715.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: On September 11th 2001, I was sitting in Math class around 9:00. A teacher rushed in and said "Hurry turn channel 3". We turned on the tv, and just saw a flaming tower. I was in shock. I didn't know what to think, and I didn't say anything. I didn't do anything. All I did was watch and wonder "Why would anyone do this?" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story2201.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 198.109.168.234 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 sitting at my home when my husband called and told me to put the T.V on are local ABC channel when i did i couldn"t believe what i saw i turned on my VCR to record and when i did the second plane hit tower2 That changed me forever i live about 3 miles from the back side of Barksdale Air Force base so i was scared that something was going to hit here and then the president stopped at are base first I went and got my daughter from school I thought she needed to be with me if anything else happened I sat in front of the T.V for days watching the horrid stories i was hearing I felt so bad for all those people and sometimes i justed wish i could of died instead of some of the people that did all those children it was so sad i will never forget it ever for the rest of my life.And I pray for all people are troops that defending are country and may 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 story3615.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. 66.76.161.175 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I remember I was in my English class at the time of the attack's but I had no clue to what was going on until I entered my 2nd period class which was Choir. I was a Junior in High School at the time of the attacks and now I'm a Senior. I remember that I could almost hear a pin drop when we were watching the news and some of us even had tears in our eye's and then just watching the tower's come crashing down to the ground was very hard to watch. In the days that followed the attacks I remember arriving at school everyday to see our flags flying at half staff for several weeks and then our school did a money drive to help the people of New York and Pennsylvania. I felt sad for all those families who lost their loved ones on that day and I will never be able to forget them. May God Bless you all. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story9139.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 daughter were at school and work.I was making myself breakfast,when on Good Moring America announced it.I was so scared and wanted my family with me.For some reason my husband stopped home on one of his coffee breaks.At about 9:00am I was so glad to see him.We then went and got my daughter out of school.I in no way want anyone to think I liked what they did.But I must admit that was the scariest feeling in my life.They really put the terror in terrorism.I didnt feel safe in my own home,and could not stop watching tv.I was on the phone with my nephew when the first tower fell,we didnt say a word we just watched.When we finally could speak,it was with tears in our eyes and throats.My parents were on a cross country driving trip,they were going to all the places that were quickly being closed.We had no way to get in touch with them.My 4 sisters and 1 brother and I were frantic.Trying to find out where they were,so we could tell them to come home.About one day later they called.They were on the road and had no idea as to what happened.When they realized they phoned us.I felt the worst I have ever felt in my life.I refuse to live my life in fear,Im more aware of my surroundings now.I have a new look on life,and express my feelings to those I love,I may never get the chance to again.I have changed as all Americans have since that day.Speaking for myself only,I have come to realize that this is the best place to live.I am honored to be an American,and never felt prouder of my country or our leader,I have a renewed respect for the police fire and rescue people.I no longer take anything or anyone for granted.Sometimes in life you must pass through the darkness to reach the light.And thats exactly what we did.We Americans rose to this threat,pulled together and stand united as one.Osma you underestimated us,we did not run and hide and never will.Terrorist around the world take notice,and learn. And listen to this. We are the super force of the world.What you started we will finish. Thank you I feel better now.Oh and by the way I never did eat my breakfast that day.! I am still angry though,that I have to explain to a 9 year old that there truly is evil in this world.But I know and belive that good will be the winner in the end. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story9199.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. 2003-04-22 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 4.33.5.254 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I teach at a large university, and on the morning of 9/11 I was in a Department meeting until 11:00. I'd heard on the way to work about a "small plane" hitting the World Trade Center, but at that point the radio announcer had not sounded alarmed. Toward the end of our meeting a colleague walked in and whispered something to the Dept chair. I'll never forget him announcing that the twin towers had been hit by two airplanes and "collapsed." I thought he must mean that the *planes* had collapsed, not the towers. But then he said that 50,000 people worked at the WTC, and I realized that, somehow, beyond comprehension, the buildings themselves had crumbled. My wife works on the other side of campus, and as I walked down the avenue toward her building I was in a daze, trying to fathom what this meant. I didn't realize at the time that many people had had the chance to escape the towers before they fell, and I kept thinking that this was the equivalent, in a single day, of virtually all the soldiers we lost in the Vietnam War. And in the midst of my dismay I thought ahead to how the Bush administration would use all of this to push its military agenda--that we would now be sunk in that agenda for years, and billions of dollars, all in the name of protecting U.S. security and supremacy. Though I am a long-lapsed Catholic, I stepped into a church on the way to my wife's office. There was nobody inside, and I sat down to think, to imagine, to mourn. All that death. All that awful death and destruction. We drove through the thick traffic to pick up our son at his school, and returned home to watch the recurring images. Over and over the planes hit, the towers fell. The announcers droned on, struggling for words, for metaphors and analogies. "Attack on America." "America's New War." The ideological machine was geering up, moving forward already, telling the public what to think and who to blame. It was impossible to sleep that night. Impossible to do anything but place myself, again and again, inside those buildings and inside those planes, living in nightmarish fantasy what for others had been real. What could be said? It was loss, utter loss, and no war would bring anyone back. 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 story23.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. anonymously 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. 2002-01-30 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 136.142.136.209 Annotation Annotations to this item. Foreign Policy Military Peace Politics and politicians Radio Coverage Television Coverage U.S. retribution DOMESTIC Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: ?Terror in America? Waking to the ringing of the telephone, my day started just like any other. I climbed off my bed, tired and irritated that someone would have the audacity to call me at 8:45 in the morning when everyone knew that I did not start classes until 11 o?clock. The voice of a good friend on the other end, scared and curious, mumbled something about the World Trade Center and New York City. I turned on the television not prepared to see what appeared before me. Images of fire and smoke flowing from the focal points of the NYC skyline flooded my eyes. At first I sat silently, staring in disbelief and horror. Then information began to pour from a familiar face on the screen. As I dressed for Dr. Turner?s Inauguration, I watched as the second tower was struck by yet another commercial plane and stood in disbelief as people were blown from the building. News that the Pentagon had also been hit came across the screen, everyone awestricken and speechless. All I could do was pray? This story was ripped from the headlines. For hours I watched, unable to move, as New Yorkers ran screaming from the rubble of the World Trade Towers. More facts were uncovered as the day progressed, explanations emerged as people tried to make sense of what had happened, and the horrified reporters distributed the news. As heroes emerged, a void became present in America. September 11, 2001 will remain forever engraved in my mind. As if being at college, having everything I knew as familiar taken away was not enough, terrorists attacked the United States and threatened the safety of our country. The sights that I saw before me were amazing. I recalled a recent summer trip to New York City with my church. My mind went to the children, families, and the churches that I had worked with in the heart of NYC just over a year ago. I wondered if the children and their families had been affected. I was curious to know how our churches were doing, if they had been destroyed. I prayed for the people: the families I had grown to know, the rescue workers, the families of the victims, and the Americans that perished. In my opinion, the United States government handled this situation extremely well. The calm manner in which they addressed the nation helped to ease my anxiety, yet they showed a since of urgency so that the world would understand the severity of the situation. I felt safe seeing our President walk across the lawn of the White House, unguarded. I think it showed that the United States was not afraid, and cowards would not intimidate us. The media, however, was not on my good side by the end of the day. I felt safe and secure knowing that I could turn on the television or the radio and see the most current, updated information. But for once, I feared the safety of our President. The location at which President Bush was kept should have remained a secret, not only for his personal safety, but also for the safety of our country. I was disappointed that the media broadcast his location to the entire nation. The September 11th incident has affected the United States in a positive way I think. The patriotism of our country has become much more evident and respected now. I love seeing red, white, and blue all over town. I like to drive down the street and see the American flag flying. I also think that the security in our nation has increased by a great margin. I am fairly sure that most Americans felt safe before, but now heightened security measures have taken over common procedures. The overall mindset of America has changed from thinking our country is invincible to understanding the reality that the United States is just as vulnerable as any other country in the world. Americans wake up every morning with a routine and, suddenly, one day, our world stopped because a group of men attacked our country. The bubble around the American way of life was popped. Another good thing that emerged from this tragedy, in my opinion, is that religion has returned as a front in our country. Never in my lifetime have I seen the amount of prayer on national television, as I have seen during the last month. This country was founded by people seeking religious refuge, and now the safe haven they once searched for has returned to America. To see the President of the United States ask the nation to pray for safety was calming, but to watch a prayer service initiated by the President himself nationally broadcast was more reassuring. I feel the safest when I am overly aware of God?s presence, and I think everyone in America felt the presence of God on September 11th.and the days following. America suffered a great loss on September 11, 2001. A great loss of lives that was recovered by a structure built by emerging heroes and God-fearing Americans. Americans now know that the United States is not invincible, but they also know that the United States is not easily defeated. A sense of duty and patriotism has swept over the nation, and I think the love the people of America have for this great nation will become more evident as the months progress. 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 story364.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 saw the towers burning and I thought it was some kind of movie, not reality...I remember walking far enough west that I saw flames coming out of the side of the buiding as well as the massive firey gaping holes in the front. I walked home and took my volunteer I.D. for NYU Medical Ctr. and walked over to St. Vincent?s Hospital. On University Place, someone set off something on the street. It whirred around and I remember quietly leaning my head against a building waiting for an explosion?it was a stupid unexplained happening...no explosion. St.Vincent?s turned me away...sadly they didn?t need help. At first the streets were crowded with people listening?I remember car doors open and radios blaring...some people were sobbing. Then came people quietly and calmly walking up from downtown. I remember a couple covered like snow men in ashes??WTC death dust? I would call it now. My building made me so proud...they opened up the doors and let people sit down, use the phone, bathroom...I remember thinking this is an unfathomable tragedy and feeling I have experienced the best in humanity. I remember my Doctor telling me how impressed she was with the Firemen. She said as soon as she treated the firemen they rushed back downtown. Being situated below 14th street, we were closed off to the rest of the world. I remember a Fire truck had to come the next night and put out a small fire under my window. I smelled smoke and turned on the tv wondering if there had been another terrorist attack but it turned out as but it turned out to be a small smokey trash fire. I felt sorry for tired firemen... I had just had knee surgery August 28th, so I decided to wait until Sunday, Sept. 16 and started the most intensive ?multitasking volunteering?. For months I stood with people on the highway ?Thanking? rescue workers. This phenomenon started immediately and Firemen buddies still tell me how much it meant to them. I did this until January. I remember bus loads of Firemen covered in dirt...their haunted eyes and dirt covered faces, buses of police, ?humvees? with soldiers now over seas, the list is endless. Being a retired Massage Therapist...I went downtown to my health club, The NYHRC at Whitehall and massaged a lot of NYPD, Army and more. I remember the tents where the soldiers were sleeping in Battery Park and in front of the museums, and I think some disaster specialists were even sleeping on the floor to the museum. I also stopped at Firehouses and rubbed shoulders there too. I visited the morgue to support the Detectives that were doing amazingly dedicated work there. I also returned to NYU Medical Center and worked on a 9-11 archive of volunteers for them. I telephoned as many people as possible to thank them for trying to help NYU Medical Ctr...many very heartbroken because of the sad events and being unable to help...others told me deeply moving stories of their day and contribution. I wrote passionate letters on behalf our FireFighters for their right to dig downtown and to ask for them to be freed when they were arrested. I painted a sign ?Free our FireFighters, NYC Heart and Soul? and I held it up on the highway and I remember running over to Pat Brown?s Firehouse, Ladder 3...I had a "low self esteem moment"and left the sloppily painted but passionate sign on the ground against the bench, Pat Brown?s bench in front of Ladder 3 When I walked by Ladder 3 the next day it was sitting on the bench. The passionately painted sign sat on the bench there for weeks. (You can see the picture of the sign on bench at Ladder 3 on my website under my artist's statement , www.suzannahbtroy.com). Being situated below 14th street, we were closed off to the rest of the world. The next morning I had to pass blockades at 14th street and our National Guard and Police to get newspapers and food. I had to open my back pack and show them the contents...and my license to get back to my home. I made treasured friends and some I made from writing letters on behalf of the FDNY...we linked forces on the computer. At points I felt so tired and drained and my new friends helped to recharged my spirit!!!!!!!!!!! I made uplifting art and wrote a piece "Kisses from the edge/The WTC" which you can find on my website. My jacket with patches -- from firemen that rushed down there Sept. 11 to Detectives that worked at the Morgue, to Police Chaplins from others states, patches and pin from other Countries that came by to help. I have an American Flag from a crane operator -- he told me the flag was on his crane all day and he wanted me to have it. I have a Mohawk American Indian Flag from one of Michael who came down to help with recovery and also stood on the highway with us. I also have a hat from the carpenters with a memorial sticker for their guys and signatures too. I also donated art to raise money for the Twin Tower's fund. I have a long red dress that I wore to the fund raiser with poetry and writing dedicated to all of us for being the best part of humanity at the darkest moment and a poem dedicated to the FireFighters and their families for being our Great Nation's Beacons of Resilience. I was one of many people that obssessively volunteer and I feel for the people that were unable to have the opportunity to. My art, poetry and my story "kisses from the edge/the WTC" are on my site www.suzannahbtroy.com Also pictured under my artist statement is a picture of Pat Brown and his brothers performing a daring rescue and at the bottom of the page a thank you to all those who encouraged and helped me to keep going. I would like to donate the jacket with patches, the dress and more. I will never forget the "smell of death and destruction" in the months that followed -- the sound of air military airplanes flying over us protecting us -- and most of all that overwhelming goodness prevailed in our darkest moments. 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 story1845.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. 205.188.209.40 Notes Notes about this item. Contributor made corrections. This is the original story: I saw the towers burning and I thought it was some kind of movie, not reality...I remember walking far enough west that I saw flames coming out of the side of the buiding as well as the gaping holes in the front. I walked home and took my volunteer I.D. for NYU Medical Ctr. and walked over to St. Vincent?s Hospital. On University Place, someone set off something on the street. It whirred around and I remember quietly leaning my head against a building waiting for an explosion?it was a stupid unexplained happening...no explosion. St.Vincent?s turned me away...sadly they didn?t need help.I saw the towers burning and I thought it was some kind of movie, not reality.. I saw the towers burning and I thought it was some kind of movie, not reality... At first the streets were crowded with people listening?I remember car doors open and radios blaring...Then came people quietly and calmly walking up from downtown. I remember a couple covered like snow men in ashes??WTC death dust? I would call it now. My building made me so proud...they opened up the doors and let people sit down, use the phone, bathroom...I remember thinking this is an unfathomable tragedy and feeling I have experienced the best in humanity. I remember my Doctor telling me how impressed she was with the Firemen. She said as soon as she treated the firemen they rushed back downtown. Being situated below 14th street, we were closed off to the rest of the world. I remember a Fire truck had to come the next night and put out a small fire under my window. I smelled smoke and turned on the tv wondering if there had been another terrorist attack but it turned out as but it turned out to be a small smokey trash fire. I felt sorry for tired firemen... I had just had knee surgery August 28th, so I decided to wait until Sunday, Sept. 16 and started the most intensive ?multitasking volunteering?. For months I stood with people on the highway ?Thanking? rescue workers. This phenomenon started immediately and Firemen buddies still tell me how much it meant to them. I did this until January. I remember bus loads of Firemen covered in dirt...their haunted eyes and dirt covered faces, buses of police, ?humvees? with soldiers now over seas, the list is endless. Being a retired Massage Therapist...I went downtown to my health club, The NYHRC at Whitehall and massaged a lot of NYPD, Army and more. I also stopped at Firehouses and rubbed shoulders there too. I visited the morgue to support the Detectives that were doing amazingly dedicated work there. I also returned to NYU Medical Center and worked on a 9-11 archive of volunteers for them. I telephoned as many people as possible to thank them for trying to help NYU Medical Ctr...many very heartbroken because of the sad events and being unable to help...others told me deeply moving stories of their day and contribution. I wrote passionate letters on behalf our FireFighters for their right to dig downtown and to ask for them to be freed when they were arrested. I painted a sign ?Free our FireFighters, NYC Heart and Soul? and I held it up on the highway and I remember running over to Pat Brown?s Firehouse, Ladder 3...I had a low self esteem moment and left the sloppily painted but passionate sign on the ground against the bench, Pat Brown?s. Cbench in front of Ladder 3 is pictured on my website under my artist's statement.) When I walked by the next day it was sitting on the bench. The passionately painted sign sat there for weeks. I saw the towers burning and I thought it was some kind of movie, not reality...I remember walking far enough west that I saw flames coming out of the side of the buiding as well as the gaping holes in the front. I walked home and took my volunteer I.D. for NYU Medical Ctr. and walked over to St. Vincent?s Hospital. On University Place, someone set off something on the street. It whirred around and I remember quietly leaning my head against a building waiting for an explosion?it was a stupid unexplained happening...no explosion. St.Vincent?s turned me away...sadly they didn?t need help.I saw the towers burning and I thought it was some kind of movie, not reality.. I saw the towers burning and I thought it was some kind of movie, not reality... At first the streets were crowded with people listening?I remember car doors open and radios blaring...Then came people quietly and calmly walking up from downtown. I remember a couple covered like snow men in ashes??WTC death dust? I would call it now. My building made me so proud...they opened up the doors and let people sit down, use the phone, bathroom...I remember thinking this is an unfathomable tragedy and feeling I have experienced the best in humanity. I remember my Doctor telling me how impressed she was with the Firemen. She said as soon as she treated the firemen they rushed back downtown. Being situated below 14th street, we were closed off to the rest of the world. I remember a Fire truck had to come the next night and put out a small fire under my window. I smelled smoke and turned on the tv wondering if there had been another terrorist attack but it turned out as but it turned out to be a small smokey trash fire. I felt sorry for tired firemen... The next morning I had to pass blockades at 14th street and our National Guard and Police to get newspapers and food. I had to open my back pack and show them the contents...and my license to get back to my home. I had just had knee surgery August 28th, so I decided to wait until Sunday, Sept. 16 and started the most intensive ?multitasking volunteering?. For months I stood with people on the highway ?Thanking? rescue workers. This phenomenon started immediately and Firemen buddies still tell me how much it meant to them. I did this until January. I remember bus loads of Firemen covered in dirt...their haunted eyes and dirt covered faces, buses of police, ?humvees? with soldiers now over seas, the list is endless. Being a retired Massage Therapist...I went downtown to my health club, The NYHRC at Whitehall and massaged a lot of NYPD, Army and more. I also stopped at Firehouses and rubbed shoulders there too. I visited the morgue to say hi to the Detectives that were doing amazingly dedicated work there. I also returned to NYU Medical Center and worked on a 9-11 archive of volunteers for them. I wrote passionate letters on behalf our FireFighters for their right to dig downtown and to ask for them to be freed when they were arrested. I painted a sign ?Free our FireFighters, NYC Heart and Soul? and I held it up on the highway and I remember running over to Pat Brown?s Firehouse...I had a low self esteem moment and left the sloppily painted but passionate sign on the ground against the bench, Pat Brown?s Firehouse, Ladder 3. When I walked by the next day it was sitting on the bench. The passionately painted sign sat there for weeks.(a photograph of my sign on Pat's Bench,Ladder 3 is under my artist statement at www.suzannahbtroy.co). This is another treasured memory. I made treasured friends from writing those letters too. At points I felt so tired and drained and they recharged my spirit!!!!!!!!!!!(Also pictured on my site -- you can find it under my artist statement with a picture of Pat Brown and his brothers performing a daring rescue and at the bottom of the page a thank you to all those who encouraged and helped me to keep going.) I made uplifting art and wrote a piece "kisses from the edge/the WTC" which you can find on my website. I have a jacket with patches -- from firemen that rushed down there Sept. 11 to Detectives that worked at the Morgue, to Police Chaplins from others states, patches and pin from other Countries that came by to help. I have an American Flag from a crane operator -- he told me the flag was on his crane all day and he wanted me to have it. I have a Mohawk American Indian Flag from one of Michael who came down to help with recovery and also stood on the highway with us. I also have a hat from the carpenters with a memorial sticker for their guys and signatures too. I also donated art to raise money for the Twin Tower's fund. I have a long red dress that I wore to the fund raiser with poetry and writing dedicated to all of us for being the best part of humanity at the darkest moment and a poem dedicated to the FireFighters and their families for being our Great Nation's Beacons of Resilience. You can see visuals, see art, poetry and my story "kisses from the edge/the WTC" on my site www.suzannahbtroy.com I would like to donate the jacket with patches, the dress and more. I will never forget the "smell of death and destruction" in the months that followed -- the sound of air military airplanes flying over us protecting us -- and most of all that overwhelming goodness prevailed in our darkest moments. 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 at work when I heard the horrible news, but for some reason I didn't react or didn't want to face the reality. When I got home that night and turned on the television I was in total shock. All I could do was cry. I cried for all the people that died and were injured and I cried for the feeling of safety and security in America being totally destroyed. It has changed our world forever. My thoughts and prayers are with all of those affected. John 3:16 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 story1678.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 sleeping the night away, when I had to get up for work and I checked my phone to see if I had received any messages. I was surprised to have received six messages, which was a "shock" because I thought it was in reguards to my mom who is up there in years. When I heard them telling me to turn on the TV, I couldn't understand why.. I did of course and just starred at my big screen tv in amazement. I thought to myself this had to be a movie.. it was NOT possible that something of this great magnetude could be happening in this GREAT country of ours. But to my dismay it did happen.. and I kept saying over and over again.. "OH MY GOD" and then the tears started to flow..and I was in a state of SHOCK and PANIC.. Thinking what would happen next? 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 story1025.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: The feeling of emptyness and choking as my eyes began to cry. A heart that said this can not be real.Sudden silence filled our normally loud home.Not only had this disaster impacked thousands of people I did not know, it changed the lives of our children forever.Our newest son turned 10 that day and this impact on him will live on year after year.Although we did not lose anyone that we knew there,our boy lost another sence of safety & happyness. During this past year he has been called twin towers and teased by other children.The fact that he is already a child who suffered extreme child abuse prior to coming home to us, now he has new issues.Trauma happens in so many ways.When you are a small innocent young child trying to put bad things behind you,this impact is great and long term.How painful this is for all of you.Our children know what is like to lose parents and loved ones.They feel like they know what it is like to ache from sudden loss.Our feelings of love and support go out to all the unnamed families who lost so much and got the same media attention. One year later we still cry with them and for them.God bless you all and know that we send our tears and love.Please know we will never forget your loss and pain. the D.E. Knight Family of Olympia WA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: It was early in the morning and i was getting ready to go to school. I had not turned any radios or any of my televisions on so i had no clue what was happening until my door bell rang and i saw my friend looking very distraught. As we were walking to the bus stop he was relaying the whole story to me about the attacks. " The Twin Towers are gone!" was the first thing i heard and i did not understand. At this point I had not seen the news, so i did not actualy see the destruction that went on, but when I got to school all of the TV's were on and when i finaly did see what happened for my own eyes, I was shocked and it reallly hit me deep down inside that this was the beginning of something terrible. Little did i know that life as we all knew it would never be the same again. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story8291.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: Auden's poem September 1, 1939 seems eerily prophetic now, regardless of what he meant or later thought of it. Anyway, on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was at a retreat in a really tony conference center in Westchester. We were having a presentation on something ? maybe ethics for young lawyers, or something like that ? when a friend of mine came in and said one of the towers had fallen. We'd heard at breakfast that a plane had hit one of the towers, but we assumed it was some tiny commuter plane ? a tragedy, not a disaster. But she was telling us that it was worse, and she was crying. Suddenly everyone was on the phone ? the firm's main office is in NYC, so most of the people there lived in or near the city. I tried to call my husband, but couldn't get a signal, so I walked out of the complex up to the road. Even when I got a signal, I couldn't get through. A couple of the other people there were also from the DC office. We decided to drive back. We called around to try to rent a car. The first few places I called wouldn't rent for a one-way trip. The next place I called asked if I wanted a round trip. "Yes," I said, which I consider the most justified lie I ever told. (Later in the day, the car rental places revised their policies, and I don't think there was a penalty when we returned the car in DC, but at that point in the day people had not integrated the shock with the rest of life.) We went to get the car. On the radio, we heard a report that a bomb had gone off a few blocks from the Supreme Court. The apartment my husband and I were living in was a few blocks from the Supreme Court. I still couldn't get through to him. I knew, I knew that the chances he was hurt were small. And I knew that when we didn't hear that report again as the minutes and hours went by that it was probably a mistake, but we never heard it retracted. I'm a yellow-dog Democrat, but I will always be grateful to Rudy Giuliani for what he did that day. He spoke on the radio, and he said that he didn't know how bad it was, but that it was bad, and he was strong and devastated and forthright. He showed that it was possible to be all those things together. We couldn't see much as we passed the city, just a big column of smoke. I never paid much attention to the skyline of NYC before, so I don't even have a sense of how it changed. The roads were almost empty. I remember passing a caravan of ambulances on the New Jersey Turnpike ? they were heading the other way, towards the city. Each one had different markings, because each one was from a different little New Jersey town, but they were all going together to give what help they could. Even then, we were getting a sense that they weren't going to be able to do much, but they were going. I cry every time I think of that caravan; I'm crying now. Eventually, we stopped at one of the Maryland rest centers. There was a woman there who hadn't had her radio on as she drove for hours and hours, and the other people there were trying to explain to her what had happened. It still seemed so unbelievable. I reached my husband, and confirmed that he was all right. We had trouble getting close enough to the Metro to drop me off because of roadblocks (one of the other lawyers took the car to drive the rest of the way home). But I did make it home. I found out that my secretary had told my mother that I was "in New York," not specifying, so she was quite upset for a while. Did I suffer? Obviously not, not in the way that so many people did ? and are right now. But it changed me. One of my law school classmates, a big brawny guy, was outside the Trade Center when it happened. A fireman came by and basically started collecting anybody who looked strong to come inside and help. They were heading towards the site when the first tower fell, so they didn't go inside. A few minutes later and things would have been different. Some of the lawyers I worked most closely with were taking a deposition that morning, at Rockefeller Center. The deposition ends abruptly, with a note that the building was evacuated. We used that transcript a lot during the litigation. The next day, I went to work, because I desperately needed something to do. The partner in charge of the case ? the same case the deposition was for -- wanted us all working; one of the other lawyers was disgusted at what he saw as insensitivity. For me, it was a lifeline, a way to keep from sitting and crying. Not too long ago, I got lost, as I often do, and I drove back to the area around the Capitol, because I knew I could find my way home once I was there. But there were all sorts of unexpected roadblocks, and policemen stopping cars and looking inside with flashlights. I drove past the Supreme Court and I couldn't see it. They're building these walls, you see, to make the building safer. But making it safer means taking it away from us, taking away equal justice under law and replacing it with high white walls. I cried most of the way home for this second loss. (Really you'll still be able to see most of it when they're done. But not the lawn where local dogs used to frolic and where we built the Snow-preme Court, with a bow tie for snow-Justice Stevens and a red hairbow for snow-Justice Ginsburg, not the beautiful architecture of the building's sides, and anyway it's the symbol of justice walled away that really kills me.) 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