438 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: What made 9-11-01 change me was that some people got killed as Americans. I am proud to be an American now black white any color is an American to me. I have stop picking on people because inside they could be really nice like the old saying " Don't jugde a book by it's cover." I love all god's things now. September 11th was so sad to me and the rest of my family. No one that got killed should of. That was sad for familys of then. I was sad so look how family s would feel that people actully died in there family. My best friend said I've changed alot. I take every day as a good one because I'm still alive. My heart goes out to all the people's family that had someone die in there family. IN MEMORY OF 9-11 OR SEPTEMBER 11TH Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story2427.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I had planned a surprise 70th birthday for my husband. We were just boarded on a flight to Newark. We had dinner reservations at Windows on the World and hotel reservations at the hotel at World Trade Center. My son and daughter -in -law were meeting us in New York. We had theater tickets , a car rental to take us to the Baseball Hall of Fame,baseball tickets to the White Sox-Yankee game. I had planned this surprise for 6 months. We were already on the plane and we were not told anything about what was happening. We were just told to get off the plane --all tvs and news were shut off. O Hare airport was in lock down mode and it was hours before we found out what had happened 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 story7223.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. 2002-09-13 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 64.12.96.8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: On September 8, 2001 I arrived home at Dulles Airport from a very sad trip to San Diego - my wedding had been scheduled for September 8 and for many reasons had just been called off. Friends were still out on the West Coast in San Diego, having traveled to participate in the ceremony. On the morning of September 11, I was at home, a new home we had just moved into, trying to decide on whether or not I should unpack some boxes. My ex-fiance had left our house around 9:00am to get some coffee for a trip he was about to take to visit with his family. He rushed through the door and told me to jump online, because he had heard on the radio that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. It was nearly impossible to get a connection at that point, web pages were showing very little text with mixed graphics and with only a dial-up connection on an already jammed server finding information wasn't easy. I wish we could have used the television - but we still hadn't had the chance to hook our cable up. Under protest for his safety, he left on his trip any way (I almost think he wasn't totally conscious of the magnitude of the events taking place), and I went to the gym where there are televisions in front of every treadmill, I ran and walked for more than 3 hours - it felt like 10 minutes and I watched the saddest story I've ever seen slowly unfold before my eyes and in front of the nation. I kept thinking that I had just flown in through Dulles a few days earlier - the same place where terrorists had flown out from. My immediate thoughts went to my friends, still on the west coast, trying to get home - where were they - were they safe - were they afraid to travel home? One of my dearest friends had just flown through Trenton, and the rest through Dulles. At that moment, I had not even considered the possibility of knowing someone in the Trade Center, which sadly as I later found out was the case. Living so close to the airport and being placed directly in the flight pattern, I have to say that the next several days were spent in an errie quietness. I almost wished for the noise of the planes - when air travel resumed I would found myself waking up short of breath wondering where the low flying plane over my house was heading. There were nightmares about those planes that stayed with me for weeks. At the time, I was working for an already struggling e-business firm, Idea Integration. As a result of market forecasts in the wake of September 11, in an already unstable economy moving towards "recession," I was laid-off the day I returned to work - two weeks severance - health care terminated at the close of business that day. I'm sure this is mentioned by a lot of people, but it all felt like a bad dream. I stopped listening to any radio stations that played music for the next couple of weeks, concentrating only on the newscasts of 9/11/01 and the fallout that was taking place around the world and specifically in our economy and in the job market. I watched countless specials on t.v., trying to keep up with things as they had happened and were happening. I flew a flag in my yard - and took it's meaning much closer to heart - as did many other Americans. And as I slowly realized that there were friends I had living in New York who had been directly affected - it became increasingly real. I was home when it happened, my narrative lacks a heoric dimesion, but I think there is value in it though, because my life was professionally and personally altered in ways that will forever be a part of who I am and what September 11 made of me. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story63.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. 2002-02-18 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 63.23.113.6 Annotation Annotations to this item. Economic effects Internet Personal connection to someone at site Television Coverage DC:2 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 granddaughter and I were preparing to leave Mexico after a wonderful week of fishing and fun. We were waiting to cross into the US in a huge line at the border. Suddenly, a disk jockey announced a plane had hit the World Trade Center. After that, it went from bad to worse and the man could hardly relate the news without choking up. There we were, citizens of two nations, sitting in shocked silence at the Mexican border. People were so kind and compassionate. After being searched and questioned, we were allowed to pass into California. It felt wonderful for my granddaughter and I to be back in our country. Even though we were going through a major tragedy,we wanted to be where we belonged and where we could help. No matter what, there is no place like 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 story5009.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 eyes have been opened. I always thought that our country, the United States of America, was invincible. That day last year was one where my usually sleepy, tired eyes were glued to the television set, above Mrs. Harlin's world cultures class, in awe. I thought to myself if that could happen, what's next. The next few days following September 11th I was completely paranoid. Even though the little farming community of Northwestern was hardly even a considerable target it didn't matter to me. Now a year later I am glad that our country is moving on. We have seen the effects and don't want them to happen again. So America is going to keep their eyes wide open from now on . 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 story6377.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 second year dental and medical students walked out of pathology lecture and heard a plane hit the world trade center. Now living in Boston I thought it was our world trade center which is a pier, and some small aircraft pilot had trouble after taking off from Logan. As my friends and I walked to our next lecture we passed a tv in the medical center and saw what had really happened. Only one friend new anyone who worked there and we all used our cell phones for her to try to get through to our family. Lecture started a little late but we didn't think anything else was happening. About ten minutes before the end of lecture, someone came to speak to our professor. He updated us and said they didn't know what was going to be happening the city might be locking down. He dismissed us saying he would let us know what via email if we would have lab our not. A group of us went to an apartment across the street and watched the day progress on tv. In between we keep trying to find out what was happening with our afternoon lab class, was it going on or not. No one in the administration knew. By the time lab came around at 1:00 we already had decided we had to continue on. Our friends in the city where safe and we had gotten a hold of our family across the country telling them we were fine. So of to lab we went. 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 story1105.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-08-19 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 168.122.14.130 Annotation Annotations to this item. Students/Teachers DOMESTIC Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: At the time I was 19 years old. I was at a friends house and I couldnt sleep. I decided to stay up and watch some tv. About 10 minutes after turning on the TV suddenly a NEWS break came on and I started seeing pictures of the World Trade Center on fire. I knew it was real but there was a kind of Surreal feel to what I was witnessing. I sat there in complete shock. Even though I had never been to America I still knew how significant those buildings were. I continued to watch heartbreaking scenes of everything that is good a decent just fall apart. Suddenly the first Tower collapsed and I didnt believe it at first. I remember thinking "that cant have happened". I stayed awake that entire night watching in hope that most of the people had gotten out. The next day I raced home and recorded the coverage. I still have the original Australian News coverage as a reminder of those innocent souls who werent as lucky as others. 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 story9006.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 I was in my 2nd week of Basic Training. On this day it was our first road march and we marched about 7 or 8 miles. We came to the range witch we were going to; that day we were learning about being attacked and how to react to it. at about 11 a.m. is when we found out that someone had hit the world trade center in a plane and when we all had heard this no one believed it. We all thought it was a trick or a game because we had just been taught how to react to being attacked. So all day we went through the day not believing a word that our Drill Sageants were telling us. We got back to our barraks at right about dinner time and than our First Sargeat and Captian told us that both the World Trade center and the Pentagon had been hit by highjacked planes and that another plane had crashed in Pennsylvania. and after that I knew something was not right. they asked eveyone who had families that lived in New York City , Washington D.C or Pennsylvania to come with them into a room. Having a Brother who lived in New York City and who worked in the World Trade Center i reluctly went not knowing how severe the situation was. We got to watch a clip of what happened and they said they were sorry at that time 10 of us just broke down and started to cry at what we were seeing. They let us call our families I was not able to get a hold of brother I called home and got hold of my parents and talked to them and I had a million questions going through my head. and I was afraid for my life, I was afraid to go to war or the fact that my brother was killed by the actions of whoever did it at the time. I talked for a while about what was going on and the whole time I had no clue where my brother was and niether did my parents. I hung up the phone and I just let it go I was so mad I did not know what to do with all the anger that I had inside of me. So the day it happened all I saw was the New York City skyline with no World Trade Center Buildings. The two most remarkable symbols I have ever seen. I was thinking to myself how could this happen. But there is a part of me that to this day still cant believe it happened. all I saw was an empty skyling and a skyline that will be empty forever you can never bring back what happened on that day. I will forever remember the day September 11 2001 I was in Basic Training; I was serving my country. Even though the whole day I cant remember I will always remember the empty skyline I saw on T.V. For my Brother he has missed is train in the morning so he was late to work I got a hold of him 4 days later and if would have been there he would have been killed. I thank God to this day that he was not taken from us. To all the families out there who had family members in the towers I am sorry, and please remember that we can never loose hope and you will make 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 story1334.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: September 11,2001 it seemed like a normal day for most of the day. None of my first or second period teachers had turned on the news, in fact they acted as if it were a normal day too, until fifth period. My teacher was late so me and my friends were waiting for the teacher to open up the room when one of them said that that World Trade Centers had been attacked and the Pentagon had been attacked too. I thought it was a joke and didn't even know what the World Trade Centers were. He kept persisting and when the teacher finally got there I asked her and she said that it was true and then turned on the TV. The first image I saw was both the buildings burning. It was shocking, I didn't know how to react. So many things were going through my head, I didn't know if my dad was alive, I didn't know if my brother was alive. Everyone in the class was stuck to the news. The bell rang and no one wanted to go because they wanted to watch the news. When I got home my dad and my brother were waiting there. We sat down and watched the news all day and into most of the night just trying to figure out how this could happen and who did it. I remember throughout the entire school day just staring out the windows watching for any planes in the sky just in case they decided to attack the school. I had a horrible paranoia feeling. The attacks changed everything, since my dad is retired military he was very concerned about strangers calling the house and for a couple of days he didnt have to go to work since he worked at Fort Belvoir and he just sat there and watched the news. For a couple of days all we could do was watch, it was a terrible idle feeling. Later my dad said that every generation has that event where everyone remembers exactly where they were when that happened. For him it was 9/11 and the assasination of JFK. For my grandparents it was Pearl Harbor and the assasination of JFK. 9/11 was a terrifying experience but I think we shouldn't let this fear blind us, we should learn from it and know how to react next time. This was a horrible experience but it was a learning experience for me and every other american. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story20415.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2006-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 151.188.16.21 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: On Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, around 11:45 AM, I was in homeroom, about to start Religion. Then my principal walked in and gave us the shocking news. The World Trade Center was gone. The day before, my father had left for Idaho on business. My first reaction was that he may have been on one of the planes, but fortunately, as I found out later that day, he was not. My next reaction was one of disbelief. The two tallest buildings on Manhattan Island, and in the United States, gone. Thousands of workers and travelers, gone. What I remember most from September 11th were the shocked, scared, and occasionally enraged reactions of my fellow students. Also, the reaction of my sister, friends I communicated with via e-mail, and others. I remember the moment of silence that followed the announcement of the World Trade Center attack. And most of all, I remember my own shocked reactions. -Terrance Wong, Boston College High School Class of 2006 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 story2096.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-10 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 24.147.64.206 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 worked for American General in Houston, at the time the first plane hit the World Trade Center. I was facilitating a meeting for a massive project for AG as the project manager. All of sudden I heard a radio loud from the conference room. We opened the door to see what was going and that's when we stepped out to learn that America was under attack... Everyone basically just stood listening to the radio in shock. Work ceased as we began to talk amongst ourselves. Management could plainly see that not much work would get done that day. We received a corporate email that stated we were being released to go home due to the uncertainty and our vunerability being in one of the tallest buildings near downtown Houston. That was it I was out of there and on my way home to my family. We basically just sat around the rest of the day glued to the TV for more details, calling family and friends and crying for the families of the victims. At one part of the day, I was so moved that I stood in my bedroom and sang God Bless America with every fiber of my being and began to pray for our country. That night at church, after prayer, God placed that same song on my heart to share with the congegation. 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 story2805.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. 32.102.48.239 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 son ran into my bedroom saying "Mom, Mom, there's terrible accident news on TV" as he scrambled for the remote to turn on my TV. Flashing before us, upon awakening that fateful day we sat together watching all the stations broadcast the horrifying depiction of that plane hitting the first tower and then suddenly a 2nd plane hit the other tower. And then the towers crumbled to Ground Zero.....meanwhile another tragic crash, the pentagon. It was apparent someone was attacking our country. We were rooted to our spot in front of the television, finding it difficult to move ourselves to get ready for school and work. That day I drove my son to the stop where he waits for his high school school bus. I got out of the car and actually hugged him as we parted, and he was not at all embarrassed. In fact, he hugged me back, hard and we promised to see one another later that day. Once at work we were not very productive, instead shuffling in disbelief, radios and television monitors turned on throughout the building, usually with a cluster of employees standing, teary eyed, consoling one another as we pulled together in grief, and in consolation. This was a tragic act against our country, yet the terrorists completely underestimated the power their pre-meditated aggression tolled upon us to instead instantly produce a stronger, unifide nation. My son and I lucky in a sense. We did not lose any family members or close friends in any of these catastrophic events 9-11-02, yet we mourn with our nation our brothers and sisters whose innocent lives were taken from their families and loved ones and AMERICA! Long live the USA. Hail the Red, White and Blue! Let Freedom Ring! 9-11, We Will Never Forget..... Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story3776.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 sitting in school, in 2nd period, the subject was math. Well i got my folder, and my materials and sat down. Then all of a sudden, a student teacher came in and told me the news " 2 Hi-jacked planes went through the world trade towers". I didn't believe it at first and then i saw what happened. I was in complete awe because i thought "who would have done such a thing like this"? Well i went to 3rd period with the heaviest heart and nearly wanted to cry my eyes out. Then i went to shop, and nearly saw the beginning, of what was to become world war 3. Then i went home and told my dad what i saw and what i felt. At 8pm, i listened to president bush's address to the nation while i was talking to my youth leader, roberta. As the days went on, i felt more secure and more better about this horrific situtation. 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 story9103.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: It started out like any other Tuesday. Get up at 4:30. Shower, shave, get dressed and head off to the bus stop to go to the city. The bus pulled in, as usual, at 7:30 into the Park Place stop. I got off and took my daily walk to work. One block down Church Street, cross over to 5 WTC, through the concourse to 2 WTC and up to the 69th floor. Just like any other Tuesday. As usual I unpacked my attach? case and stored my Walkman. Unlocked my desk and took my cup of oatmeal and coffee cup to get a cup of tea. I checked my voicemail and e-mail and started to do my work. Little by little other employees came in. I remember saying hello to Rocco and Jack. I think I saw Brad. I remember seeing Tim go into his office. That?s all I can remember but I?m sure there were others (I later found out That Jessy was in). It was approximately 8:45 am when life as I knew it changed. There was a big bang. An explosion. I looked out my window on the south side of the building and saw paper, lots of paper falling from above. It was almost like a ticker tape parade with big pieces of paper. Then I noticed that other things were falling and they were on fire. We all ran out of our offices to see what had happened. Someone, I?m not sure who, said that either a small plane or helicopter had hit 1 WTC. We decided to begin evacuating people because we just didn?t know what was going on. We told everyone to get their things together and start walking down. We knew that it wasn?t our building but we weren?t taking a chance. No one panicked. Everyone left orderly. I called my wife to let her know that there was a problem at 1 WTC but we were leaving anyway. Tim and I walked over to the north side of the building to see what had happened. When we got to the PC Support area and looked out the window, we were shocked. On the east side of 1 WTC was a massive hole with black smoke and flames coming out. I looked down to the concourse and saw debris all over. Pieces of the Trade Center structure were lying on the concourse floor as well as the roof of 5 WTC. What I saw next will probably never leave my mind. Something, which I couldn?t make out, came flying out of the burning hole. I followed it about half way down before I realized it was a person. I?m not sure if he jumped or not but, when he hit the ground the body disintegrated. Two more bodies came from the burning hole. We didn?t want to look but it was difficult not to. They suffered the same fait as the first. It was too much for me. I left the window. At this point the PA system had an announcement that there was a problem at 1 WTC and 2 WTC was safe. We all relaxed a little and a false sense of security came over us. I remember smelling an electrical burning smell. The remainder of us decided to leave. We said we would make one more sweep of the floor and make sure everyone was out and then evacuate. We went up and down the isles calling to see if anyone remained. If a phone rang we picked it up to let people know that everyone was ok and we were evacuating. When I got up to my secretary?s desk, the phone rang. I picked it up. It was George Ross, a retired executive. He had heard what had happened and was checking to see how everyone was. I told him we were all ok and were about to leave. Then it happened. A loud bang and the building shook like we were in an earthquake. The walls seemed to move back and forth like rubber. The wall next to where I was standing cracked and opened up about an inch or two. I saw Jack come running out of his office and Tim came running from around the corner (although Tim later told me that he was in his office). I still cannot remember if I went back into my office or had my attach? case with me, but I knew I was running with it. I thought that the building was going to fall at that point. I was scared. I followed Jack and Tim into the hall and I noticed that the ceiling had collapsed. Jack ran to the door for the stairs. I saw him hitting it with his shoulder but it wouldn?t open. We turned and ran around to the east side of the floor. As I passed the next passage I looked left and noticed the ceiling had fell and it was impassable. We continued to the north side of the building and around to the center hall. At this point all I saw was the door. The door to freedom. Jack entered first, followed by Tim, then myself. We began our trek down the stairs for the third time. Once for a blackout, once on February 26, 1993, the date of the bomb and now. I ran as fast as I could. I?m not sure that my feet actually hit the steps as opposed to just sliding along the edges of the steps. I didn?t see anyone else behind me except John Olsen, the regional manager. I do not know when but I was in a kind of a group. Jack and Tim had gotten ahead of me. I was with John, Glen O?Leary, Vic Rosa and his friend Bob and a few other guys. We seemed like a team. We checked how each was doing. Jack and Tim called up to me. I confirmed I was still going and was ok. My pager started. First my wife Celia, then my son Steven, then my son Michael, then Celia again and again. I got my cell phone out and tried to call. I had good signal but the circuits were busy. Over and over again I tried to call but the circuits were busy. The pager continued to beep. Floor by floor we went down. I noticed that there were shoes on most landings. I think these were all woman?s shoes. I guess they took them off to get down the stairs faster. I remember my legs starting to feel like rubber on about the 15th floor, but I kept going. Trying my cell phone, checking how our co-workers were doing. Jack or Tim calling to me. Answering them that I?m right behind them. Checking how John Olsen was doing. There was another heavyset man with us. Vic Rosa would open a door every couple of floors to let him get some air. We were all sweating.. I had arrived on the 10th floor platform and remembered that the telephone company central office was on this floor. I decided to get to a phone. I went onto the floor without thinking. Glen followed me trying to stop me. I told him I had to call my wife. I knew if she heard my voice she would be better. I ran into the hall and through a door. I saw a phone and dialed. Celia answered. She was crying hysterically. I assured her I was ok and on the 10th floor and would be out of the building soon. I hung up and Glen and I ran. Glen ran the wrong way and I called to him and we entered the stairway again. We continued going down, down, down. As we got close to the bottom we started to run into more people. The running had slowed. I remember seeing Rick Rescorla, the head of security,with a bullhorn telling everyone to keep moving. I later found out that Rick was one of the missing. We finally got to the bottom and were directed by the police to keep moving. They had us go through the 2 WTC lobby and into the concourse. I noticed two things then. One was this guy from the 66th floor, Louis Torres, He was carrying this woman in his arms. I later found out that he had carried her down from the 64th floor. The second was a woman covered in blood. Her head was bleeding and the bottom of her pants was soaked in blood. I kept saying to the police to get an EMT. They just said to keep moving. Two guys were helping her. They directed us around the concourse to the escalator leading up to the Church Street exit. More police, more yelling to keep moving. I remember thinking that I now have to walk up an escalator and my legs wanted to give out. I kept moving. Up the escalator and through the revolving doors out to the street. I saw hundreds of people across the street. The police kept us moving. We started heading north up Church Street. I do not remember how but we somehow got to Broadway. We must have cut up one of the blocks. It was Glen, Rocco and myself. I remember seeing Tony Farrand and Brad Willcox. We walked fast sometimes looking back in shock at what we were seeing. I continued to try my cell phone with no luck. The public phones had long lines. Glen stopped at some store to get some water and I went into the next store to as to use the phone. I went to the back and there was this guy on the phone. He was an Arab or Indian, I?m not sure. I asked him if I can use the phone and he told me to go to a pay phone. I told him the lines were long and he told me he could only receive incoming calls. For some reason I didn?t believe him. I left the store. When I went back outside Glen was getting out of the store. A number of us had shared the water and we continued our walk to Varick Street. I continued to try my cell phone with no luck. I continued to look to an available pay phone without long lines. Also no luck. We walked fast. Time seems strange. I do not know how much time had passed when we finally got to Canal Street. We turned the corner and I saw 75 Varick Street about 2 blocks away. I saw a public phone with a woman on it, so I waited. All I wanted to do at this point was call Celia and let her know I was all right. The woman finished and I dialed. I remember dialing a few times since I was rushing and making mistakes. Finally I got through to her. Celia answered. She was crying. I told her that I was far away from the building and was safe. I had hoped I was telling the truth. She didn?t believe me. I reassured her that I was all right and told her I was heading to Varick Street, our contingency site, and that I love her. I hung up the phone. With that I heard a thundering sound. I looked up from the phone and saw the two towers burning. Then the top of 2 WTC started to go down and it disappeared into the smoke. I stood with my mouth open. I was numb. I could not believe what I was seeing. The building that I saw going up 30 years ago, where I had spent the last fourteen years working, was now falling, disappearing into the smoke and fire. The group of people standing on the corner just stood there in shock. I heard many people say ?Oh my God?. Glen and I continued onto 75 Varick Street. We went to the 3rd floor, our contingency site. When we arrived there were many people there already there. I think I went to the front desk. There were communications people sitting there. I think I saw Frank Giordano, Evelyn, Lisa, Pauline and some others. All I wanted to do I call some people to tell them I was ok. I went to the back room where the NCC was and found a phone. I saw Mike Eng and he asked me to contact ILX to get entitlements put on the workstations. I told him ok but called my wife again to let her know I was still ok. I called my son Michael to let him know that I was ok. I then called my brother. When he heard my voice he burst out crying. I do not think I ever heard Paul cry. He said he thought he had lost me. I consoled him. I asked him to call the nursing home and have them tell my mother that I was ok. I also asked him to call Rhoda, our sister. I left the back room and walked through the communications room. I saw Pat Haskins. We hugged and told each other that we were ok. We now had work to do. I called Jeannine from ILX to tell her that we needed the entitlements turned on the 300 workstations at Varick Street. She was crying when she heard my voice. She hadn?t heard from anyone from the 69th floor and thought we were all dead. I assured her we were all alive. We all got out in time. She said she would page me when the work as done since phones was hit and miss. I do not how much time had passed. Time was irrelevant. I kept busy making some phone call to vendors. Someone said the there was food. I waited a while. Then Jack, Tim and myself went to get some sandwiches. After we took the food we were told to go the rear of the building because there was a bomb scare. They said that a truck had pulled up in front of the building and the driver ran. The police were going to check it out. We all went to the other room and Steve Van Wyk, the IT executive, started to speak. No one could hear him and someone gave him a bullhorn. He started to tell us that he was proud of us for getting out of the building safely. He then started to talk business. I cannot remember anything else he said. We then heard an announcement to evacuate the building. We all walked down the 3 floors to the lobby and out the Canal Street entrance. Little by little people filled the street. We were then told to go up to the Morgan Stanley office at 1585 Broadway. Jack, Tim, Rocco and I tried to regroup our staff in order to make the long walk. Everything was strange. No one was really sure what to do. Then someone said that they are evacuating 1585 Broadway. I then decided to try to go home. I called Michael to tell him to meet me so we could get out of the city. I told him to meet me at Canal Street and the Westside Highway. It seemed that everyone was in small groups standing by the entrance to the Holland Tunnel. Jack and Tim and a group of people started to walk north toward Penn Station. I wound up with Frank Giordano. I do not know where Rocco went. We tried to keep the New Jersey people together and I found myself standing with only Frank. We went over to the west side to wait for Mike. At this time Frank said something to me that sent chills up my spine. He told me that he went out with his brother this past Sunday. He was telling him that he had a dream on Saturday night. The dream was about him going to work on Monday and a plane hit the Trade Center and it fell into the river. I thought he was joking until I looked at his face. I knew he was serious. I could not believe he had a premonition about what had happened. We stood there for some time. There were police and EMT standing around in groups. It seemed that they were getting their orders. I went over to one of the policemen and asked about the Hoboken Ferry. He told me it was not running and we had to go to 30th street. I tried to call Mike on my cell phone with no luck. I tried Frank?s cell phone and got through. He was at 15th Street and 2nd Ave. I told him to go across town and we?ll meet him on 15th and the west side. Frank and I began to walk uptown. What happened next broke the tension a little. Frank and I were walking in the street and Frank put his hand in his pocket. He pulled out a Tootsie Roll and asked me if I want it. I couldn?t believe he took the time to go into my office to get some Tootsie Rolls from my desk. He told me that he had them from before. Frank said he had the last Tootsie Roll from the WTC and he placed the wrapped in his pocket. As we walked and talked about what had happened and saw different cars and trucks coming from downtown covered in soot. It almost looked like snow coming off the roof of the vehicles. Then an SUV passed us. I yelled out to get a lift. The Guy slammed on his brakes as asked where we were going. I told him 15th Street. He told us to hop in. This guy was in his office by City Hall and witnessed the attack. He drove us to 15th Street and let us off wishing us luck. We crossed the street to get out of the sun and waited for Mike. It seemed like a long time. We continued to talk about what had happened and discuss how we would get home. Finally, I saw Mike coming down the street. I couldn?t wait to hug him. He crossed the street and we hugged. I held him very tight and told him that I Love him. He told me the same. I remember crying as I held him. I couldn?t wait to get home and hold Steve and Celia. We started walking up the Westside Highway toward 30th Street. We finally got to the Weehawken Ferry. There were hundreds of people on line and busses dropping off more. We got on line and began to wait. I had no idea what time it was. The line seemed to move quickly as boats filled. People heard us talking and asked us what we experienced. We told them and they looked at us in fear at what we had been through. Finally we got on a boat for the next leg of our journey to New Jersey. It took a long time to get across since there were more boats then docks. I remember calling Celia to give her a status of the journey. I also called Paul. The ferry finally docked and we headed for busses to go to Hoboken. Mike couldn?t get in touch with Anne, his fianc?, so we had to go home by train. We lucked out and got on the 2nd bus. The bus ride was slow. There was a lot of traffic. We were about to blocks from the train station and not moving, so we decided to get off the bus and walk. I remember seeing tables with food and bottled water. I?m not sure who was supplying the stuff but was happy to see that everyone was helping out. We went into the train station looking for information. A man with an NJ Transit jacket came over to us and asked if he could help. I told him I wanted to go to Belmar. He said the next train was leaving in 4 minutes on track 14, the other end of the station. Mike said he was going to try to get home. Anne was at her parent?s house since the roads were closed. I really didn?t want Mike to go home but he insisted. I said goodbye to Frank. He was taking another train. I hugged Mike again and told him that I love him and told him to be careful and ran to make the train. I got through the gate and noticed the train was packed like sardines. I knew I would not get on this train. I asked when the next train was and was told it was at 5:09. For the first time since the first plane hit 1 WTC I looked at my watch. It was 4:45. I couldn?t believe a whole day had passed. I had no conception of time. I called Mike on his cell phone and told him what had happened. He wanted to wait with me but the gate was closed and they wouldn?t let him in. So, I waited alone on the platform. A couple of guys were talking about what had happened. I kind of got into their conversation and told about my experience. They looked at me in horror at what I had been through. I girl over heard the conversation and asked me about a friend of hers on the 104th floor. She wanted to know if she could have made it out. I told her I really didn?t know although I thought that anyone above the crash probably didn?t make it. The train finally got in about 5:15 and left at 5:25. I called my friend Daryl and asked him to pick me up in Belmar. The ride home seemed long. Looking out the train window I was able to see the heavy smoke from where the WTC used to be. It made me sad. My hands began to shake and I had to keep busy so I decided to call my family to let them hear my voice. I called Rosie and George, Mary and Sal, Miriam and Jimmie and Junior. I called Celia a few times also. The train finally got into Belmar. I got off the train ant saw Daryl. I walked up to him and we hugged. He said her was glad to see me. I told him the same. I couldn?t wait to get home to see Steven and Celia. We finally pulled up in front of the house and Steven came out to meet me. I hugged him tight and told him that I love him. He said he loves me also. I started to cry again. I was so glade to see him. I went into the house and down the hallway when Celia came out of the den. We embraced. I held he as tight as I could. We kissed. I was so glade to be home in the arms of my LOVE. I knew that things would be better. Ellen came out of the den. We hugged and she also said that she was glade I was all right. We went to the kitchen. They had ordered pizza. I was not hungry. All I wanted was water. My friend Marc called to see how I was. He said I only had seven lives left. I told him I was no cat but I was ok. Daryl and Ellen left after a while and Celia told me to go inside and rest. I changed my clothes. I did what she said and turned on the television. I had not seen the news footage of what had happened. As I turned on the TV the first thing I saw was the second plane hitting my building, I looked at it in shock. All I saw was the plane hitting my floor, although it was about 10 floors above. I started crying saying that I should be dead. The plane hit my floor. Celia comforted me saying that it did not hit my floor and I was alive and home. I cried. I did not sleep that night. Every time I closed my eyes I saw the plane. There are many things in this story that I think I still cannot remember. Hopefully they will come back to me in time. The important thing is that I was home with my love. The following weeks were an emotional rollercoster. I knew that getting through it would be tough but with the support of my family and friends, I knew that I would get through 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 story938.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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: Remembering 9/11 School at Boston College High School started at 8:30 am, as usual on 9/11/01, and my train ride to school was like any other. My second period class, AP Government, starting at 9:30am was held in one of my school's computer labs. The purpose of the class was to research information for my class' government textbook, but suddenly my teacher announced that a plane had "accidentally" flown into one of the World Trade Centers in New York. Quickly, everyone in the class went from the government website to cnn.com and other news web pages. As the class continued, pictures of the first plane flying into one of the towers began to appear on the screen of my computer. Then my teacher started explaining that he thought that it was a deliberate act, because planes just don't "accidentally" fly into the largest building in New York. I was shocked that something like this could happen. It was now thirty minutes into the class and all of the major web pages of news organizations were running ridiculously slow, due to the numbers of people at work logging on, attempting to find out what had happened. My class was most likely the first to find out about what had happened in my entire school, because we had been doing research on the internet and everyone else was in classrooms. As class was ending the word terrorist was mentioned and everyone was in disbelief. Personally, I thought it still could possibly be a tragic accident. The bell rang and it was now 10:10am. Perhaps, that forty-minute class I had will be the most important and memorable class that I will ever have . I went to lunch, which started at 10:15, and a sickening buzz swept through the cafeteria that a second plane had smashed right into the World Trade Center. Normally, while eating, there is your regular joking around with friends and eating whatever junk you can buy, but that day there was a silence over everyone in the caf. I remember just not believing what was happening. I was stunned and a little scared, because in the back of my mind, I was thinking of traveling through Boston, a large city like New York, with tall buildings, on a train. As the day unfolded at school the seeds of 9/11 were already becoming planted, engraved into everyone's mind. I went home when school ended at 2:40 with two friends I normally ride the train with. The train was filled with incredulous people and I remember just wanting to get home and be with my family. On that train ride, I felt lonelier than ever in my life. At home I watched TV, still stunned and shocked, until I fell asleep. That day changed my life in one enormous way. I realized the true value of life and how precious it really is. I never thought that I would witness bodies just falling from buildings like rag dolls. Images like that are indented into my mind. They are disturbing and a strong reminder to me that I should never take a day of my life for granted and I should feel lucky for everything I have and more importantly, value the things I haven't lost. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story2149.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: Hello everyone. My name is Amanda Barker. I am 14 years old, and here is my story of where I was on September 11, and how it totally changed my life forever. I was in the Psych. ward for attempted suicide, and this wasn't my first time being ther for the same reason. Since I was the first to wake up that day, I went to the "den" and turned on the tv. The first thing I saw was horrifying. I saw a plane crash into one of the towers. So I ran to the staff room and pounded on the door, yelling for the staff to come see what was on. All the staff came rushing out to the tv. We stood in awe, watching the horrifying events before us. Pretty soon the whole floor was crowded around the tv, each of us trying to watch. That day, we did nothing else but watch the reporters repeat them selves over and over, a somewhat different change each time as the day went on. I finally remembered that I had a friend in New York. She lived in Manhattan, and I began crying. She had helped me through the past rough years, and I was scared that I was never going to see her again. One of the staff took me to my room to help me calm down, but I couldn't. I wanted to help, just anything at all. But since I couldn't leave, all I could do was watch, and pray. For the next few days I was a zombie. Thinking of nothing else. Then I began to realize that I had so much to live for. These people died, without a chance to say goodbye. Suicide has not been in my thoughts since that day. My best friend had died for all I know, because I haven't talked to her since. It's been almost a year now, and I still grieve for the losses of so many. But it changed me forever. I hope they are at peace, and may the goddesses bless and protect their families, and our great nation. Blessed be, Amanda Suzzanne-Agnes Barker 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 story1620.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I remember sitting in my second hour U.S. history class, when a member of the staff opened the door and told us to turn on the TV to channel 10. Class was almost out, so students were already putting away their notebooks. When the screen came up, the twin towers were on fire. The whole class just sat there. Nobody said anything. Tom Brokaw's voice was in the background. I just thought it was a mistake... After the bell rang, students crowded the hall, and everyone seemed to talking about the same thing--the twin towers. Students were crowding around the televisions in the hall, waiting to hear more news. The Pentagon had also been hit. When I entered my third hour, Lit/Comp 10, I saw my teacher sobbing next to the phone. She kept redialing, and hanging up. Half the class was there, so I took a seat next to the door. The TV was on once again. It still hadn't hit me that people had died. For some reason, I was positive the planes were empty and the buildings were already evacuated. Looking back, it was a loss of innocence for me. As we watched in horror, the second trade center was hit. People started to gasp, and that's when I think it really hit me. This was no accident. The screen was filled with smoke. Megan, a girl in my class stood up and asked to use the phone. Her father was in Washington D.C. I started to think if we had any relatives or friends that lived in NYC. Within seconds, Tom Brokaw gasped. We all turned to the screen. The first twin tower slowly collapsed. It looked like it was a scene out of a movie. Mrs. Larsen put the TV on mute, and we sat in a circle discussing the events... When I got home, all the channels were talking about the same thing. All these theories came up about reasons why the Taliban and Osama bin Laden did what they did. I remember being defensive, and not understanding why they accused the middle east immediately. I heard the garage door open, and slowly came down the stairs. My mom asked me if I had heard what had happened. DUH. We talked about our trip last December to to NYC. I had traveled so much, but NYC was still the place to be. It was so livey and sophisticated. It has been exactly one year since the event took place. Things are still not the same. A friend of mine went to visit the site, and said the area is not finished being cleaned yet. Today, our school will honor the victims and firefighters that died on 9/11. It's a great feeling watching your community pull together. It's just sad that took such a horrific event, for this to happen. 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 story2241.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 riding up the escalator when I herd the new I first thought that it was a small plane that just went off course when it hit the WTC but the Horror just started I was shocked horrified and sad I was getting on a flight headed toward Cincinnatti OH going to my uncle memorial service it never really hit me until i got back home and realized what had just happened Thank god I did not gety on that flight or I could have been one of the Victims of the horriffic tradgety. 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 story20401.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 doing wash at the time, And i heard the news on T.V., My nephew is a pilot for Delta airlines he was in New York at the time. I was so afraid it was his plane. His name is Micheal McDonald, I called my sister-in-law and she told me he was alright,He was at the airport and was very shaken up but alright, I cried and thanked God for his safety and asked God to help the people that lost loved ones. God will punish those that did this terrible thing. Thank you Karma Evenson 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 story6466.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I am angry at our government not for only for the treatment of people in other countries which I feel caused this problem, but for the treatment of the people here in the united states. Four of my nine children were taken away from me by the state, And I live 9/11 every day I wake up. Then the feeling that I couldn't be with my kids on this fearful day, one cannot describe the feelings. Let's not send any more money to the victims families, but to the families who are out of work and need to feed and house there children. Stop tyranny in America. Rebeccabonacci@aol.com 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 story7456.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. 2002-09-15 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 205.188.209.38