432 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 want to start by say I feel for all who have lost loved ones in that tragedy. Well, all my life has been spent in New York City, I am a black male and have been from the foster care system to the welfare system to struggling with employment to being homeless because of no employment. I just got fed up! At 42 years of age I needed a change in my life and being in New York and have tried it all there was no way I was staying any longer. I got into a new relationship and had my first baby girl, Kiara, she is so beautiful not to mention she looks like her daddy. My patients had run out. I took my family and moved to Newark as a temperary stay until our next move. After a year we decided on moving to Charlotte. Well, I was the first to go and when I got everything together the rest of the family will come down. OK, I had a little trouble leaving and so I made a determination that I will leave on my birthday hook or crook so I pawned my camera and borrowed a few dollars and boarded the greyhound on September 7th. My employer was supposed to transfer me to that state and I was trying to change my Army Reserve Unit to Charlotte after 18 years of New York National Guard and Army Reserve. I was on the public phone in Charlotte trying to talk to my employer in NY on September 11 at 8am and they told me to call back. On the way back to my cousins apartment someone on the street said a plane hit the World Trade Center! I thought about a small plane may have strayed and hit it or something not to bad. I went and turned on the Television and I thought this is not real! Then I sat down and screamed OH MY GOD! about 10 times. Then the second plane hit I could not contain myself with swearing that we are at war! I felt helpless and then my fiance and children are there. Then the Towers fell. I cried for about an hour alone with the TV. I worked in the Towers and traveled everyday from NJ day and night through the Towers. The day I left NY was from the NJ Path. My employer location was on 6th Avenue and 51st Street. My Reserve unit was the Combat Support Hospital at FT. Hamilton. I immediatly wanted to go back to help, when I called my family they told me to stay where I am so they can move. I stayed. At this time I can't watch anything involving the Trade Center tragedy without a tear. 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 story1325.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: When I heard what had happened I was shocked. I had just gotten back from NYC on September 10th. I visited the WTC on Sept. 10th and my hotel was only 3 blocks from it. It really hits home when you are so close to a situation like that. September 11th will always be a day I will definately remember for the rest of my life. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: Before I begin my story I would like to give thanks to all the people who lost their lives on this horrible day! I want to tell the family's of loved ones lost that day they will never be forgotten! God Bless the United States of America! I was leaving a meeting from work and just got on the highway headed to my first appointment of the day. I remember thinking what a beautiful day it was, so I opened my sunroof and turned on the raido. The radio announcers were yelling and saying oh my God-oh my God I could not make sense of what was going on, cars on the highway began to pull over and put their flashers on. A shaken radio announcer Mary Skanlin from Kc-101 sadly reported that the World Trade Center in New York City had been hit by a commerical airliner. I pulled over and picked up my cell phone and called my boyfriend, I wanted to know if he was listening to the radio to make sure I was understanding what I was hearing. Working fairly close to home, I raced there and turned on the Tv, thats when the second plane hit the second tower, I could not believe what I was seeing. I felt my heart sink into my stomach. I was in shock and tears welled up in my eyes, I immediatly called my boyfriend again and begged him to come home. The next broadcast come over the Tv, the Pentagon had been hit by another plane and now they feard more hijacked planes were out there. I thought to myself, this is it, we are under full attack and my heart pounded anticipating the next hit. The intensity in the air was unbearable. Then all hell broke loose, the the first tower collasped. As it fell, to watch all those people running for saftey from smoke and debries was too much to watch. I buried my face into a pillow and sobbed, felling so scard and helpless. My boyfriend, Billy arrived home, he was also in shock as he listed to the radio on him drive home. It wasn't until he seen the visual on Tv that he began to cry. We held each other tight and then the next broadcast, another plane crashed in Pennsylvaina, and then the second tower collasped. We felt completely helpless and scared. I called my parents, my brother and my sister, I needed to hear there voices. Then Billy and I decided to walk down to the church at the end of our street. They were just letting the kids out of school, there were allot of parents around scrambeling to pick up their children. Everyone had the same look on there faces...shock, fear and overwhelming saddess. We walked into church and the sound of people crying and praying still gives me goose bumps. For us, it was the only place that we felt we needed to be. Even now just thinking about these horrible acts of terror stirs up the exact same feelings I felt that day. I don't think I will ever completely recover from that feeling of sorrow and loss even though I did not personally know anyone who perished in the attacts, I feel stangely close to them and I think I always will. 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 story8105.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 don't think I will ever forget what happened to our family on September 11th, I first heard when I woke up later then usual (I didn't go to school that day) and my mother told me that the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York had just been hit by two airplanes as if that wasn't bad enough, I was about to hear that we had been hit closer to home. The most devastating aspect of September 11th was when I heard that a plane had gone through the window of the Pentagon. I went numb I couldn't cry at the moment I couldn't take it all in. My Uncle sometimes goes to the Pentagon for meetings as he is an airforce doctor. My family has always said that my uncle Tim was born under a lucky star. September 11th drove this point closer to home then ever. Every year without fail my Uncle always met in the same room in the pentagon. However, because my Uncle felt that the group was getting stagnet he chose to move the group to a different location. All of his collegues protested that it was an inconvenience, eventually though they all agreed. All of us my family and my Uncle's family didn't realize the significance of his decision to change his meeting place that month. It turns out that the plane went through the window of the room where my uncle would have been at that exact moment had he not made his simple decision to change his meeting room. I realize that my family was one of the lucky ones we didn't lose anyone. I just wish everyone else had been as lucky as we were. 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 story9498.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. 2003-09-08 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 164.106.108.134 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 in the livingroom when my daughter brught her three year old son so she could go to work. We watched as the second plane hit in horror. My niece was in NY on business and I was terrified. Luckily, she was standing in a parking lot outside her hotel across the river and heard the first and actually saw the second plane hit. She finally managed to get a bus home on Friday. My three year old grandson said in his innocence, "Uncle Teddy, a fireman, needs to get his ropes and climb up and help them people climb down." At that moment, I knew, we as a country, had lost a precious part of ourselves, our innocence as a nation. We had been attacked on our own soil. God Beless 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 story4277.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. 66.119.33.167 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 husband and I arrived in Washinton DC on Monday morning(our first vacation in years). We took the Amtrac and got into Boston Monday evening. Went to Logan airport to rent a car and drove the few miles to our motel. We talked about all the things we hoped to see in Boston on Tuesday before we once again boarded Amtrac on Wednesday to head back home. The next morning the world had changed, forever. My husband said something is going on in New York - they are talking about it on his police scanner. We turned on the tv and sat in horror as the pictures and the devastation began. It was not possible to fatham the depth of the pain and suffering that was going on there. It felt like it was our neighbors who were parishing. And the date was 9-11. After the plane hit the White House I told my husband we needed to do something normal, like get dressed and find a restaurant. Everywhere we went the faces told the same story we felt. Just so much shock and disbelief. Our waitress could not understand why the restaurant was open. She felt everyone should be home trying to deal with this loss. We live 30-40 miles from Wright Patterson Airforce Base, located in Dayton, Ohio. I told my husband we had to get home because who knew what would happen next. Our best course would be to get inland and head North I needed to be with my babies - my 2 girls, ages 37 and 23 and the 5 grandchildren. If our personal world was going to end too, I had to be with my family. We tryed to call home but the lines were all out. I finally reached my sister at work and told her we were going to drive home and to call the kids and tell them we're okay and on our way. On the drive home it was very strange. There were no contrails in the sky, no planes, trains or public transportation. Everywhere we went, our gas attendants, waitresses and almost everyone we talked to, had some connection to the towers. They had a relative or knew someone who escaped or was missing. The closer we got to home the more frantic I felt. I was afraid something was going to happen before we could get there. I just needed to be with my babies. We finally walked in our house and my oldest daughter was here. I grabbed her and hugged her and cryed and cryed. I talked to or held all of them that evening. My family has always been important to me, but even more so after 9-11-01. 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 story8037.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. 2002-09-21 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 66.119.33.167 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 I found out what happened on September 11 I was in my school doing homework and then I heard that the Twin Towers were attacked by terrorists.As soon as i found out I got scared and wanted to go home.I was very sad for the people who died and angry at Osama Bin Laden Who caused the attack. i was thinking that i am glad to be alive and not in those buildings.But i felt sorry for those people who died there and all the Firefighters and Policeman who also died.All of those victims thst died were innocent and had nothing to do with the Millitary or any other things because they were jusy citizens.I am still scared of what might happen in the future and if there will be anymore theats or attacks. 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 story8080.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. 2002-09-23 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 209.175.105.14 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 a normal day my wife Karen and I drive down to work together to midtown Manhattan, that morning I had a doctors appointment and my wife traveled down by bus to Port Authority. I finished my appointment and headed down the Palisades Pkwy towards the George Washington Bridge as I approached the bridge I saw we were being detoured away from the bridge,I thought there was an automobile accident. I had also just put my radio on and heard that the first plane hit the Trade Center. After turning back towards home I heard the second plane hit and I knew we were under attack! Meanwhile my wife arrived into Port Authority not knowing anything was going on until a friend of hers told her. She was stuck in the city and I had no way of getting her out. Luckily a co-worker of hers had an apartment in the city and invited her to stay with her. My wife called me at home to tell me she was okay! My wifes co-workers apartment wasn't far from the Empire State Building and all night they heard sirens and smelled the smoke from the burning Towers. They kept hearing that the Empire State Building might also be a target and they were very scared as the apartment wasn't to far from there. After the 3rd day I was able to get back into the city and was able to be reunited with my wife. It was very upsetting to me everyday going to work and passing the city skyline,as I drove thru the Lincoln Tunnel and saw where the Towers once were standing there was only smoke. May we never go thru this horrible act of terrorism again, and may God Bless the souls of all who have perished. "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 story4075.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: My husband and I were scedualed to go on vacation the week after the attack on the USA.I called and rescedualed for two months latter,it wasnt because I was afraid to fly but because I felt there was alot more people that needed to fly than I did.I was sitting at my kitchen island painting when I heard about the first plane hitting the twin towers and the all of a suden on my own tv I saw the other plane hit the towers.I think my first emotion was one of sadness but then that quickly turned to anger that another person and country could hate the USA so much that they could take so many lives and not care.I have always loved this great nation I live in but I was never one to express alot of emotion about the United States,but that changed very quickly.I now have a flag hanging in the front of our home and I cant even count how many shirts I have say how much I love this country.The bombings changed how I feel about the holidays like July 4th,veterans day world wars etc.I just cant understand how a group of people reather monsters could willing take the lives of people that are just living there life and not hurting anyone.I was born in upstate N.Y and now live in Mn,but I will always be a New Yorker.The bombings have also taught me to never take any thing or any one I love for granted again.I think the worst part for me was that septmber 11 was my grandfathers birthday.He had just pasted away on Labor day and then to have the bombings happen on his birthday was just a lot to much for me.It was hard enough just loosing my grandfather but to have this tradgety happen on the day of his birth was just heart breaking.I have always belived in god and I was raised cathlic but never a very pratcing on,but that has all changed,I say my praiers every day,and I thank god he has given us all the strengh to go on no matter how hard it is some days more than others.I watched the annaversity showes on tv and all I could do was sit there and cry.I think what suprised me the most is that my husband isnt the kind on person to show his emotions but sept 11 2002 he sat there looking at the ceramoney at the sight of where the towers once stood and had tears in his eyes.I am proud to be a American and live in the United States Of America,because as the old saying goes (when the going gets tough the tough dont take no crap).I am also proud that all of America has pulled together to help one another,not just for the short term but for the long hall and I know with out a doubt that we the people of America will always stick together no matter what anyone or any country throws at us.We are one tough bunch of people. I LOVE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND NO PERSON OR COUNTRY IS EVER GOING TO TEAR US APART,WE WILL ALL STAND UNITED. GOD BLESS THIS GREAT NATION AND THE PEOPLE IN 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 story8175.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. 2002-09-28 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 216.114.222.27 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 witnessed history on 9/11 when I got to school and walked into first period and my teacher had the t.v. on. They were showing footage of the first plane crashing into the North tower. Then about half an hour later the second plane crashed, the explosion was like nothing I've ever seen. Then when I was going to my fourth period I heard some teachers talking about how another plane struck the pentagon. Then when the class started my math teacher told us that Twin towers had collapsed killing 3,000 people. He also told us that the plane crashes were acts of terrisom. When I got home my parents were watching the news. The next day my sister and I did not go to school then we heard on the news that the Taliban was behind the attacks on our country and that Goerge Bush considered it a Act of War. 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 story4743.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. 12.164.58.211 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 girlfriend Robyn and I planned on being out of work on September 11, 2001, and going for a bike ride across the Minuteman Rail Trail from Bedford, MA. into downtown Boston. The plan was to have lunch there and bike back. We headed out of Worcester, MA. at about 7:30 am., car packed, bikes on the rack. It was gorgeous weather and we congratulated ourselves on our choice of days. We got to Concord Common a little before 8:30. I parked my car in a public lot just outside the Common area. We had our bikes off the rack and headed out, all before the attacks occurred. We had to bike over to the trail head, in the next town, and arrived without incident. Once we got on the trail, we thought it odd that all we could hear along the way were talk radio shows. And loud. No music. There were a lot of contractors and builders around Lexington at that time, and all truck radios were at full blast. We stopped at a bench along the way about 10:30 and could hear church bells ringing in Lexington Center. We were laughing, thinking they were practicing Christmas music. Hark,the Herald Angels Sing it sounded like. We even started singing. Talk about irony. We got into downtown Boston via Commonwealth Ave at just about noon. Lunch was at a sidewalk cafe we picked out, doubling back after making our choice. We entered the dark interior to find every customer in the restaurant clustered around the bar, the TV blaring. We couldn't see the screen from where we stood. We shrugged it off and picked out a table back out on the sidewalk, doing an about face in the doorway. Our waitress was not talkative, not a word about any of the tragedy that happened. And we were too far from the TV inside to hear what was going on. Traffic headed past on busy Commonwealth Ave, and nothing seemed out of whack. We did not pick up on any conversations coming from pedestrian traffic passing by. And then we headed back. We wanted to beat the 5 o'clock exodus down Route 2 heading west out of Boston. We passed the entrance to Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford at about 3:30. The cars were lined up on the narrow access street, and police were not letting a lot of angry people through the gates. Still, we had no clue nor did we stop to investigate or listen to what the police were saying. When we got back out to Main Street in Concord, Robyn decided to call her mom on the cell phone just to let her know where we were and when we would arrive home. When Robyn screamed into the phone, and relayed the information to me, we just looked at each other and claimed it couldn't be true. We peddled back to the parking lot, found that my car, the only one left, was chained in. The state had declared all national landmarks off limits and fair targets for any other destruction that might go on. I called the police and they told me one of the gates didn't have a lock on it, to just put the chain back when we left. All the way home in the car we couldn't talk, ears tuned to the radio. Once home, my husband was in front of the TV, by now it was after 5:30, and I saw my first view of the planes hitting the Towers. Robyn and I still can't believe we spent the whole day in ignorant bliss, ignoring tell tale signs along the way. My overwhelming sadness at what happened was postponed, but I shall never forget how ironic it was that Robyn and I didn't recognize the possibly of something of that magnitude happening in our country, along with the rest of America. Any carefree, naive, escaping-for-the-day thinking I ever have again will always be on the lookout for those tell tale signs of something gone seriously wrong. 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 story3488.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 Septeber 11, 2001, at 6:10 am, I was driving to the Bakery where I worked. All I could hear on the radio was that one of the towers in New York was hit by a plane. My mind went blank. I changed the station in my car to every one imaginable and they all said the same thing. So when I got to work, I ran inside and immeadiately called my boyfriend who was sleeping at home. Unfortunately, I broke the disturbing news to him. He turned on the television and told me what he saw. Then to make things worse, he saw the second plane hit the other tower, while I was on the phone with him. The first thing out of his mouth was "Oh S***. Honey, this was not an accident." I then asked what he meant and he then proceeded to tell me what happened. I could not beleive it. My fear of being on a plane has just now increased dramatically. I opened the store as I usually would, but business was just not the same. I contacted the owners and they were extremely upset at it all. The store was to be shut down for the day so we could spend the day with our families. However, I think that the hardest part for the business owners was that they were of Middle Eastern decent and concerned for their lives. Especially after they heard who did it. After we closed the store down that day, we went home to our families and were glued to the TV, watching the horrifying acts that were happening just on the other side of the U.S. You could almost feel the pain from New York just through watching the raw emotion coming from people who lost their loved ones. But those loved ones are angles watching over them now. Doesn't it make you wonder what was going through the terrorists' minds during the time that they were taking thousands of lives? People don't care about human life anymore. Especially people who have committed hate crimes. They just asume that if you look a certain way or dress a certain way that you just have to be. Wake up people. If you don't know, don't assume. America is the land of the free. And that is the way it will always be. So American's need to get use to seeing people of different religions, races and creeds. Didn't we go through this in the 60's? Who cares what color your skin is? Or what religion you practice? People come here to be free of all criticism. On a certain night when America was asked to stand on a corner with a candle to represent our huge candle light vigil for New York, everbody on my block did this. We actually had people stop and get out of their cars and join us. That is Unity and America needs to learn that. We need to stand tall and proud of who we are and show the terrorists we are not afriad. They will never break the tie that bonds us American's together. GOD BLESS THE USA!! Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story4665.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 REMIMBER I GOT MY CHILDREN OFF TO SCHOOL ON TIME FOR A CHANGE AND WITH NO HASEL OR PROBLEMS WITH THEM AT ALL. I REMIMBER THINKING TO MY SELF "THIS IS GOING TO BE A GOOD DAY" EVENTHOUGH I WAS HAVING SERIOUS BACK PROBLEMS ( WHICH ONLY OCCUR WHEN SOMETHING MAJOR IS OR HAS JUST HAPPENED) I TURNED ON MY TELEVISION LAYED ON MY FLOOR TOO HELP MY BACK AND FELL BACK TO SLEEP JUST TO BE WOKE UP BY MY FIANCE SHOCKED AND IN FEAR. I LOOKED AT THE TV AND IN DISBELIFE AND TROUMENDOUS SHOCK COULD NOT BELIEVE WHAT I WAS SEEING. I STARTED CRING IN FEAR AND SYMPATHY FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED. THEN I REMIMBERED MY CHILDREN. HOW I ALLOWED THEM TO WALK THEMSELVES TO SCHOOL TODAY WITHOUT ME. I REMIMBER THINKING WAHT IF SOMETHING HAPPENS HERE OR HAS ANYTHING ALRESDY HAPPENED HERE? I IMMEDIATLY CALLED THE SCHOOL AND WAS TOLD CORY AND ASHLEY WERE IN SCHOOL AND THAT IT WOULD BE BEST FOR THEM TO STAY IN SCHOOL. I CONTEMPLATED ON THAT FOR A MOMENT THEN SOMEWHAT AGREED. THAT WAS WHEN I REMIMBERED MY OLDER SISTER.... TODAY IS HER BIRTHDAY AND HER HUSBAND WAS TO BE A PASSENGER ON FLIGHT 93. I CALLED HER RIGHT THEN IF A FRANTIC SCARE. WHEN SHE ANSWERED SHE SOUNDED FINE SO I WAS NATURALLY SCARED TO ASK HER IF SHE HAD HEARD WHAT HAPPENED AND TO MY AMAZEMENT SHE SAID YES AND ASSURED ME THAT CRAIG (HER HUSBAND) CHOSE TO DRIVE HOME RATHER THEN FLY AND HEADED FOR HOME THE NIGHT BEFOR. SHE TOLD ME "CRAIG CAN'T WAIT FOR THE PLANE, HE WANTED TO GET HOME TO ME NOW" I'M EXPECTING HIM ANYTIME NOW. WITH THAT IN MIND I WAS GIVEN A LITTLE RELIFE BUT NOT ENOUGH TO STOP THE PAIN OR HURT OR ANGRE THAT I WAS AND AM FEELING FROM ALL OF THIS. SO WHEN THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY CAME AROUND I FELT WORRIED FOR MY SISTER AGAIN THINKING HOW MUCH SHE MUST DISLIKE HER BIRTHDAY NOW BECAUSE OF THE TERORIST ATTACKS AND THE THOUGHT OF "IF HER HUSBAND HAD NOT DECIDED TO DRIVE HE WOULD NOT HAVE MADE IT HOME FOR HER BIRTHDAY". SO I GAVE HER A CALL AND LEARNED THAT ON HER BIRTHDAY THIS YEAR SHE HAD THE SAME THOUGHTS I HAD PKLUS THE HURT IN HER HEART AND FAMIY FOR THE LOSE OF HER FATHER IN LAW ON THIS ANNIVERSARY OF 9-11 MY HEART GOES OUT TO HER AND ALL THE FAMILIES AND FRIENDS THAT HAVE LOST SOMEONE ON THIS DATE OF 9-11 SINCERLY NAD WITH THE MOST SYMPATHY MY GOD BLESS YOUR SOULS GINA ROACH Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was sitting in the lobby of a busy office building. I was giving a co-worker a break, when the phone rang. It was my mother, she said" The trade center and other important buildings are under attack." I was shocked about the events and all I thought was the world is going to end and I am going to be at work. I am an Emergency Services Officer, so I was extermly concerned with all the events and also worried about my wife and twins at home. I called my wife and told her to turn on the TV. She was shocked and was left speechless. I told her that I love her and the twins and if she heard anything to contact me at work. The whole next weeks flew by. I cried when I thought of all that were killed and even more so about FDNY. My wife and I along with my Fire Department toured FDNY a few years back. FDNY personal treated us great. I also work in the Fire service so I was a wreck about all of those brave men and women who lost their lives doing what they loved. That is one thing about Firefighters they love there job. I my self am a second greneration Firefighter. I am the first EMT in my family. So all in all I Feel for all of those whom lost their loved ones and I pray that this great contry will never endoure a horriable encounter as this one.GOD bless us all. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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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: GETTING READY FOR WORK ,GLANCING AT THE TV FROM TIME TO TIME.NEWSFLASH THEN A PICTURE OF THE FIRST PLANE HITTING THE FIRST TOWER.I COULDNT MOVE MY EYES FROM THE TV SCREEN,THINKING THIS COULDNT OF HAPPENED IN THE UNITED STATES THERE HAS BEEN A MISTAKE.AFTER THE SECOND TOWER FELL AT 10 28 AM I BECAME NUMB. THE REST OF THE DAY WAS A BLUR FILLED WITH HEART WRETCHING SADDNESS,THE SAME FEELING YOU HAVE WHEN A LOVED ONE IS TAKEN FROM YOU.ALOT WAS TAKEN FROM US AS A NATION THAT DAY.TODAY I GRIEVE ,I WILL ALWAYS GRIEVE I WILL NEVER FORGET.GOD BLESS AMERICA! 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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 9/11, I left at 7:00 AM on Amtrack Penn Station on a train which was to arrive in Baltimroe 9:21, to attend a biotechnology convention. I mormally like to travel by air, but my travel agent convinced me to take the train on this day. At 9:05 AM, after a pleasant ride, I picked up my cell phone and called my office. I told Victoria, my assistant to call our travel agent and thank him for suggesting the train. The ride had been pleasant. During our conversation, Victoria apologized and asked me to hold on since she had to take an emergency call. She got back to me a few minutes later and said the emergency call was my daughter, Karyn. Karyn was sitting at her desk on the 46th floor of the McGraw Hill building when she looked out and saw a plane hit into one of the twin towers. Said to Victoria, "I spoke to my Mom last night, and I know she is travleing today, I think to Baltimore. But tell me is she on a plane or a train - I didn't pay attention to her. Victoria said, she is on a train and I have her holding on her cell phone now. What's up Karyn? While Victoria and Karyn were speaking Karyn missed seeing the second plane hit the second tower. However, Karyn had seen enough and has had enough nightmares with the sight she had seen. While I was checking into my hotel in Baltimore, there was a big commotion in the lobby, and I found out that the Pentagon had just been hit. So I had the news of hits on both ends. It was unreal, the twin towers and the Pentagon in one day. One of my colleagues who left Penn Station at 7:30 was forced off Amtrack in Phildadelphia, and he had to stay over at a hotel in Philadelphia. Amtrack closed down. There were bomb threats at the convention center and when the expo hall was open we were all either saying prayers or gathered by televsions to see the news. When I finally was able to return to New York and I saw from the train the NY skyline from the Jersey side, it was an awesome sight to see what appaered to be a large pillow of smoke around this wound where the twin towers once stood tall. Seeing it with my own eyes was not anything at all like what I had seen on TV. When I got out at Penn Station, the air quality was very poor. I cried for New York. It was so sad. It was the end of innocence for everyone in the country. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: On Sept. 11th I was in my 6th grade class learning about the state of Tennessee, when all of a sundden my principal came on over the intercom. She was said that all the teachers had to go to a confrence. They left us all there to watch the movie Charlettes Web. As i looked around they class kids slowly departed from the class. I then found out that their parents were taking them out of school. it was not just 3 or 4 kids but as many as 20 to 30 kids just from the 6th grade class. Later my mom did the same and took me out of class. At first i thought it was a good thing, until we turned on the TV and saw what happened. At first i didnt understand but later i found out that we have been attacked. My first impulsive reaction was to ask if dad was ok who works in the pentagon. Luckaly he was out of town in FL. This day was very scary to me and i learned alot about our country too. 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 story20489.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 first period,english 3,and i had done my assignments and my teacher who was also my journalism teacher let me to work on my pages for the school newspaper in the journalism room and i then decided to call my best friend. she picked up the phone immediatley and i asked her what she was up to and she said im watching the news ill call you back and i said no, talk to me and she said,dude the united states is under attack or something and i didnt know exactly what she meant by that she said turn on a tv and hung up the phone, i then went into the dark-room where there was a tv and turned it on where i saw the north and south tower of the world trade center on fire. at first ididnt know what was going on,like it didnt click i just thought that the buildings were on fire and the fire department would put it out. i knew that the damage was bad because they replayed the second plane spear throught the south tower and i just froze in shock. i thought to myself mMY GOD WHAT IS GOING ON and then out of nowhere i heard peter jennings voice say this just in another plane has just crashed into the pentagon. by then i left the room and headed back to the classroom where i told my teacher what was going on he listened to me very carfully as if he was trying to comprehend what was coming out of my mouth. a couple of minutes later an announcement came over the intercom by our assistant princapal guadalupe soza, he notified everyone about the attacks and by second period all of hte tvs in the classroom were set at abc. and everyone quitely sat in their chairs stairing up at the screens with disbelief. more then likley alot of people just like myself did not understand what was really happening they just starred up with this question in their mind,what is going on. everyperiod that day was basically the same a second period everyone watching the news,and sitting there shocked.after school i went home and bought a pack of four video tapes to record the news about september 11th and later on that night i went to the convinence store to buy a special edition of the monitor, a local newspaper in the rio grande valley. i stayed up the whole night watching and recording the news and just thinking to myself what kind of people could have so much hate in their hearts to do something like this and take the lives of so many innocent people who were doing their everyday thing whether it be working on an airplane or in an office at the pentagon or world trade center or the passengers of the four airplanes that were hijacked.ever since september 11th i fell like i have become a totally different person,for watching for the past year and a half all of the footage that i have recorded from the tv ,scenes of people jumping out of the buildings and the planes crashing into the towers.i just feel my chest collapse everytime i see the images of the second plane hitting the towers from different angles and thinking about all of the people that died that instant who were burned or pushed out of their office into the sky by the planes. then i think of all families of the people who worked in the buildings,what were they feeling knowing that someone they loved was probably dead in the building,and then of course all of the brave men and women who went into the buildings and didnt come out for the simple fact that they wanted to save lives and it makes me feel like shit because there was abosolutley nothing i could do i wish i could catch the people that were jumping out of the buildings rather than being burn alive. i listen to the songs with the voices of reporters and people on the street that saw the whole thing unfold and i hear president bushes voice sound in my head with the address of the nation telling people all over the world what had just happened. ive had so many dreams about september 11th and about being at ground zero and i watched the whole thing over and over and till this day i still watch the videos and just try to imagine myself there. sometimes when im high i like to watch the videos because i feel like i was there and i feel the pain of that day,i think i should stop[ writing now but god bless the victims and theire families and god bless the men and women who died on that day doing their job or trying to rescue the innocent people who where trapped insid e the towers....i will never forget the way i felt that day or the way i feel right now after just writing about it which i had never done before.....dont take your freedom for granted.....fabian 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: Last year on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, I witnessed the unfortunate tragedy in many unique ways. On the exact day of the brutal bombing, I was enjoying a beautiful fall day until my mom told me the breathtaking news. She told me two planes had crashed deliberately into the Twin Towers in New York City. As I witnessed the awful pictures on the news, I stared speechless, feeling very scared and extremely angry toward the evilness of the incident. I was speechless, for I couldn't believe the entire innocent lives that were viciously taken as the Twin Towers fell quickly into the soil of New York. Surely, I felt helpless and cried some for the thousands of smart and wonderful people from all over the world who perished under the terrorists' evil acts. Sadly, I thought about the 3,000 families that lost their loved ones because of this tragedy. I couldn't even imagine how these unfortunate families must feel. After I thought deeply for a while, I was still unable to believe that the majestic Twin Towers were no longer there. It's a sense of loneliness knowing that one of America's greatest structures ever built just suddenly disappeared. I cringed thinking how someone could be so incredibly heartless that he would purposely take 3,000 lives. These are the unfortunate experiences I witnessed on the tragic day of September 11, 2001. Always, I will remember all the innocent lives taken by this evil act. Of course, my life has changed drastically because of 9/11. Although this tragedy is unfortunate, it has taught me many valuable lessons. After the deadly attack, I learned to never take anything for granted and to live my precious life to the fullest. You never do know what evil is waiting to strike in the future. Also, September 11 had made me prouder to be an American and respect out great country even more. In addition, I have grown more cautious and look out for my well being more often. This is how the tragedy of 9/11/01 has changed my life forever. In the future, the people of America should remember many important lessons about September 11, 2001. Most importantly, we should definitely remember and honor all the brave firefighters, police officers, and volunteers who died trying to save innocent lives. To me these heroes showed a tremendous amount of courage and bravery. They are one of the many reasons that make me proud to be an American. In addition, we have to remember the thousands of people that perished form the Twin Tower collapse. Of course, we also must remember how our outstanding country came together to mourn the deaths and unite as a society in becoming a stronger nation. We must always remember these essential things about September 11, 2001 and keep them in our hearts forever. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story8477.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 9-11, my husband, Cornell Roberts, and I were scheduled for a 10:00 a.m. business meeting at the World Trade Center. We had planned to travel from Virginia to New York CITY on the previous afternoon and had scheduled to stay in a NYC hotel. Since neither of us had ever visted inside the WTC, we made plans to enjoy a light breakfast on the top floor of the WTC at about 8:30 a.m. We told no one of of our plans- not family nor friends. ( not an usual thing for us, as we often traveled without telling anyone) THE ONLY REASON WE ARE HERE TODAY IS DUE TO A TWIST OF FATE! I became violently ill due to something I ate on Monday morning, so we canceled our plans for September 11th. Had we carried out our plans we surely would have been killed. I shutter to think about how our family and friends would have anguished over our being missing and the not knowing where we could possibly be. (Cornell says he thinks he casually mentioned to a friend some weeks earlier that we had planned to visit NYC but wasn't sure.) We will never again, make travel plans without letting someone know of our whereabouts. We are grateful to God almighty, that we are here to tell our story but, first and foremost, to express our deepest sympathies to all those families touched by the tragedy. September 11th has profoundly touched anyone around the globe with a heart and a sense of humanity. In the end there is only LOVE. Perhaps someday humankind will learn and apply the proper balance of LOVE, PEACE, POWER and JUSTICE. May they triumph over hate, discord, dominence and injustice. 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