445 20 70359 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I work one day a week...Tuesdays. So I happened to be at work that day. I heard on our local news radio station, WGN, that the first plane had hit, but really didn't think too much of it because I figured it was an accident. I was talking to a fellow co-worker when another co-worker came up to us and said that another plane had hit the other tower. At that point we went into the lunch room to watch the TV. We and several other workers must have watched all the events unfold for another 2 hours. We all sat there in silance. I wanted to cry, but you know, you're at work. The company I worked for is a medical distribution company, so pretty soon all our hospital customers, especially in Chicago, started calling for extra supplies because no one knew what was going to be happening. I couldn't wait to get home that day. And once I did, I proceeded to spend the next 4 days glued to the TV. I'd fall into bed exhausted every night, I didn't want to stop watching in case something else happened. I just couldn't believe this was happening to us!!!! We're the U.S. Stuff like that doesn't happen here. Finally on Saturday I had to quit watching for a while. Luckily TV Land was having a Brady Bunch marathon that weekend. Nothing bad ever happens to the Brady's, so I got to take my mind off of it for a little while. After September 11th, some friends of my cousin decided to make Angels for the families of the victims. Several schools and volunteers in the area eventually ended up making close to 15000 of these Angels. Though they were intended to go to the families, they ended up on a tree at Ground Zero. Mayor Guliani then invited these ladies out to view the tree. I got to go along and was allowed to see Ground Zero up close. It was a very emotional day! Firemen, Port Authority Officers, and workers from all over the site came to the tree to meet us. I can't even describe the feeling of the place. We met such wonderful people and they were so thankful for these little angels and there were hugs all around when we left, but it was hard to believe you were standing at this spot you saw on TV for months, this place where such evil happened! It's something I know I'll never forget. And though it's hard to say you're GLAD you were there, I was happy I had the priviledge of going and paying my respects, in a way...I'd like to go back someday. Maybe when they've built what they're going to build on the site I'll go back. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story7517.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 3 year old daughter, Breanna, and I had just gone into the kitchen to have breakfast. I set her plate down and turned the t.v. on channel 11 (Fox News) when I saw the picture of the burning Trade Center. When I realized what had happened, I couldn't believe it. I immediately called my mother and father and told them to turn on the t.v. because "these fools had driven a plane into the World Trade Center in New York". I'll never forget that they thought I had lost my mind. They couldn't even grasp what I was telling them. I felt so completely sad. My daughter was being her usual happy 3 year old self, but I cried and tried to make things as normal for her as possible. I felt that this monstrous evil had made itself known in the world and no one would ever have a feeling of being totally safe again. I felt that they were all monsters. As the story unfolded and the Twin Towers collapsed, I felt sadness for the people who died and their families. Even living in L.A., the sadness was overwhelming. I felt like I was there. The country, not just N.Y. and Washington was in shock and mourning. I called in and told my job I wouldn't be in and then I drove myself and my daughter over to my parents' house. I felt strength and comfort in being there and sharing this with them. I realized this morning (9/11/02) that this will be one of those days in my life that I will never forget. I will always remember where I was and what I was doing. It's weird because I thought my generation (I'm 33) wouldn't ever have one of those days. Ever. But as the saying goes, "we will never forget". I can't believe it's been a year. I feel as if it were yesterday. 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/. Title A name given to the resource story4595.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 on the telephone with a friend of mine when I heard the radio broadcasting the news about the plane that hit the World Trade Center. It was shortly after 9:00 a.m. After we got off the phone, I listened more to the radio to see what was going on, and went to pick my son up from preschool. The news had hit everywhere by then. Everyone was shocked and upset. I think the more time that went by the more upset people got. 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 story4587.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 65.238.52.6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: Even though it has been eight months and some-odd days since September 11th when the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon, and Flight 93 got more than their share of 15 minutes of fame, the minutest details of that fateful day still remain vivid in my memory. A teacher running into the classroom like a scene from a movie abruptly interrupted Global Studies. His face was ashen and all that he could manage to utter was a command to turn on the TV. He spoke these words with a tone of fear that was clearly perceptible by the eccentric contortions of his pallid face and representing that of an apparition. Mrs. Capen, my Global Studies teacher, immediately grabbed the remote control and turned on the television like well-learned reflex. Usually patient and placid, Mrs. Capen could not stay calm and she looked as upset and as confused as I felt. What I saw was horrific. So many people distraught, troubled, and baffled as to what they were supposed to do next, where to go, what was going on. My eyes were astonished as to what they saw unfolding and numerous uncontrollable emotions were welling up inside of me. My emotions were like a bag of M&M's, I ate through them very quickly and every time I reached into my bag of emotions, I pulled a different color for each of my emotions. I felt sadness (blue), anger (red), bewilderment (purple), flabbergasted (yellow), and hatred (orange). The only emotion that I didn't feel was envy because I was certainly not envious of people who could commit such a destructive act of terror, so when I'd had enough M&M's, all that I had left was a few green M&M's at the bottom of the bag. How could this happen? Why did we let this happen? Who could do this? Questions that couldn't be answered ran through my mind the rest of that grim and excruciatingly painful day. The rest of that day was like bad dream to me. It was like I was in the ocean and every time I got close to the shore and close to a partial understanding of what had happened, an enormous wave pushed me back and I was just as puzzled as I had been when Mrs. Capen turned on the TV in second period. As the day progressed I found it increasingly hard to reach the end of the school day so that I could go home and be with my family. As you might expect we didn't have a normal day at school. Thanks to the high-quality technology at my school, there is a television in every classroom. Instead of doing work, we watched the news in every single class, which was fine with me because I am the type of kid who could watch the news all day, everyday. As the news coverage continued, the news became increasingly worse and increasingly disheartening. By the end of the day (it finally came), the World Trade Centers were nothing more than heaps of rubble, the Pentagon had been transformed into part building and part wreckage, and an airplane with a number of 93 was now nothing more than a heap of debris lying on the ground in Pennsylvania, and all of these ruins were reminders of the terrible terrorist attacks that had made history earlier that day. The photographs and live shots of these troubling scenes will forever hold a place in my mind. The most heartbreaking portion of that whole gloomy and dismal day was the count of those who had lost their lives on that tragic day. At the end of the day the total count of the deceased was nowhere near being reached but its numbers were already climbing well into the thousands and was not ceasing to grow. Every single person that I passed in school had their heads hung down in despair and everyone that I passed in the quiet, desolate hallways was grief-stricken and inconsolable. September 11th was undoubtedly one of the most tragic and depressing days of my life. When I got home no one else was at home except for my dog, Doc, who was comfort enough for me at that moment. Despite the fact that I was home alone, it was nice to know that I had a house to be alone in. That night I didn't even get to see my parents because my mom had to work and my dad had to school (he goes to NCCC), so I had to baby-sit my brother and sister. I didn't really know how to deal with my siblings about the horrendous events of the day, so I asked them if they knew what had occurred that day. My brother said, "Yeah, I know what happened. A bunch a dumb people made a lot of kids lose their moms and dads. I'm glad that they didn't come here." Hearing that from my eight-year-old brother made me realize how lucky I am to be blessed with all of the things I have and how much I take them for granted. I have a magnificent family who until September eleventh I don't think I ever truly appreciated, a roof over my head, clothes on my back, food to eat, a superb education, and the list of things I should be grateful for is endless. That night when my mom got home from work, there was an awkward silence and my mom just held out her arms and I gave her a hug and cried on her shoulder. My mom and I don't have a great relationship with one another but that moment brought us closer than ever. I looked up at my mom and she was in tears as well. She told me that I would never know how much she loved me and that she thanked God for me every day. I told her that even though she didn't know it, I loved her more than words could ever express. I gave her a kiss goodnight and went to bed. At the moment I thanked God that I was alive and that I was surrounded by the people who, even though I didn't always show it, I loved more than life itself. It is inevitable that September 11th touched many people's lives and left a considerable impact on all of those touched that was unforgettable. Perhaps I wasn't in Manhattan; Washington, D.C.; or in Pennsylvania on that catastrophic day but I know that along with everyone else in the country, I was certainly feeling the negative effects of the dreadful calamity. I felt as if I had been transported back to my youth because I felt extremely vulnerable and baffled, as I had often experienced in my adolescence. You may be questioning the fact that I am only 14 but I feel that this unbearable incident in our history has required many teenagers to feel as if their age has quickly matured many years. It is my observance that this terrible occurrence has caused many young people to feel more adult and often times they are obligated to act older than they really are. This day, which has forever left its mark on history and on me and can never be washed away. This day can never be forgotten in my mind and someday I will have to retell this painful day to my grandchildren and although this day has done more harm than good, it has everlastingly left me grateful for those things that I am able to call my own. 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: September 11th was the eye opener of our generation. For many Americans the world had stoped turning this day, or this is how I remembered it. It was a normal morning as I began to get ready. I was to play in the Hardin-Simmons University Concert Band for our presidential inauguration. As I was heading out the dormitory to arrive early for a practice I found it strange that there were a swarm of girls in our lobby watching the news. Everything was dead silent. As I stopped to watch I remember seeing one building engulfed with flames. Hearing that a plane had crashed into it I thought it at first to be an accident. As soon as the thought registered into my mine a second plane hit the second tower. I managed to stay to see one of the towers collapse. This is when I realized that this was definitely not an accident. I arrived at the University Chapel to hear lots of people talking about what was going on and what the plane crashes meant. As the first speaker came to present a speech it was explained that something dreadful had happened. We had all taken a moment of silence and then we were lead in prayer for the tragedies that had occurred. No one was really sure that day of what was going on. Many of us knew to little to understand. But for the past six and a half months there has been a closeness with the citizens of America; A closeness with our president as well. We understand what it means to be here. We now understand why we are The "United" States of 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 story353.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-04-04 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 64.216.57.67 Annotation Annotations to this item. Patriotism Religion 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: On Sept. 11, 2001 I was just gettng to science, at Ridgeview Middle, when I looked at theV in the class and saw a building on fire. i said to the teacher that is a cool movie when she told me it was really happening. i felt bad because I had trought that it was cool.Think that Osama Bin Laden (if he did it) Should bekilled or give him self up. 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 story3633.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. 207.193.126.63 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: September 9, 2001 I flew home from San Diego California with my new Marine Fiance who had just graduated from Marine Corps boot camp. What a joyful time, with a new Marine on my arm and a beautiful ring on my finger, I went back to college for the week to show off. Tuesday morning,September 11, I went to my Geology lab at 8:00 in the morning which, strangely enough, let out early that day. As I walked down the hallway of my dormitory, I noted that everyone had their doors open and it sounded like news being reported from every room. I walked into my room, picked up the phone and called my fiance, to see if he had left to come visit me yet. This is the moment I will never forget...his mother answered the phone, obvously upset, and I asked her what was wrong. "Stacey," she said, "you need to turn on your TV, something has happened..." I quickly turned on my TV and fell to the floor as I watched the second plane hit the World Trade Center in front of my eyes. "Where is he?" I asked her immediately concerned about the saftey of my Military Man. She told me he was safe, and that he already talked to his command to find out what he should do. I was still scared to death. He did end up coming to my school that day, and I will never forget running down the hallway to meet him, and hugging him so tight with that fear of not knowing what was going to happen him. That day changed our world, our lives and effected everyone in some way. It touched my life so deeply, and I will never forget the events of that September morning. 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 story375.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-04-09 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 67.24.116.207 Annotation Annotations to this item. Military 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: i was in the process of getting my children ready and off to school. i saw what was happening on good morning America and my heart sank with such grief that i felt sick. i prayed for the families for what they were going through and what they were to face in the days and months, even tears to come. i knew what i was feling yet i also knew i couln never fully know the pain and suffering that the victims families and friends were dealing with. i soon found myself praying for strangers, praying that their loved ones would be found. i had forgotten and neglected to love my neighbors and treat others as i would want others to treat me. i found my rainbow after this storm and i have been renewed with a sense of love for all and a compassion for people more than i thought possible. i also held on more tightly than ever to my family because i now know and truly realize how preciouse and little our toime together really is. i will never forget the pain and the suffering and i will hold dear in my heart heroism and courage of that dreadfull day. i will not forget all who were lost. though it is impoosible to know all the detail, faces names ect, but all i have to do is look at my family to know. they were all someones mother, son , daughter, father, husband, wife, friend ect. they all had dreams, hopes,love. some may have been artistic, funny, serious, intelligent, quiet, loud ,outgoing, shy and everytyhing inbetween and more. I never had the privelidge to know them but i will never forget them. 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 story5774.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-12 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 24.49.10.160 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 8AM Central Time my alarm clock went off across my Ferrell Hall dorm room. With in seconds my roommate?s radio alarm turned on to the reports of an airplane crashing into the World Trade Center. In a half a sleep haze my roommate and I passed the news off as a morning prank by the 98.9 morning show. As the report went on I quietly asked my roommate, "Ed, are you listening to this?" He responded, "Yeah, I think this is for real!" Without cable I ran down the hall half-dressed for class and still somewhat asleep. At the moment that I walked into my friends room a second plane hit the other World Trade Center tower. From that moment we knew it wasn't an accident. I finished getting ready for class that morning listening to the radio the entire time. Just as I was leaving for my first class I heard about the plane hitting the Pentagon. On my way to class there was this sickening sound of silent cries. People were talking about the events of the morning, about their family at the different crash sites, their friends that worked in the World Trade Center; yet, under all the discussion there was silence. On my walk up the Benedictine Hill I realized that there was no I way I could sit through my Mass Communications class. With permission I left the classroom and returned to my dorm. Phone calls started to come in, my distant Uncle who worked in the Pentagon was "on special assignment" and we wouldn't find out if he survived the attacks for some time. My father was evacuated out of his offices at the Oil Trade Facility in Houston, TX. Every where I went that day I ran into friends who weren't so lucky. That evening I raised an American Flag in the window of our newly renovated dorm room. The Flag would remain in the window for the remainder of the year; it served as a constant reminder of the freedom that we enjoy and that so many have died for. 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 story2409.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 65.112.101.34 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 feel good that I am a lucky person. Why? Because my family is still here with me. I am glad known of my people not hurt. If my family was in there, i would not know what to do. I think that Bin Ladin is to smart for us. Why? Because we all thought that they was going to hit on the New Millinium (2000), but they didn't. So in other words they caught us off gaurd and got us. Ladin has too many connections all across the U.S. So how are we going to catch him? I was at home when I seen it on the news.( NO ONE KNOWS HOW WE GOING TO CATCH HIM) 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 story20463.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 my 8am government class in high school when my guidance counsellor, Ms. Burke, came into the classroom and announced that "a plane flew into the World Trade Center". None of us were really sure what to think of it, and since that was all the information we were given, we had no idea about the severity of the attack. Just a few days earlier, someone had flown a very small plane into a building (not as a terrorist thing or to cause harm to others) and my classmates and I began to assume this was something of that nature. Class continued, and throughout the day more and more people became worried. We were not allowed to listen to radios, watch TV, or leave school. By the time lunch was over and I headed to my chorus class, some people were in tears for fear that their loved ones attending NYU or visiting the city were hurt. I didn't really understand why they were so upset. I didn't understand the situation at all. We weren't told that more than one plane was involved, we weren't told that the towers had fallen, we weren't told about the incidents in PA or DC, and we weren't told that it was a deliberate act of terrorism. I arrived home around 3pm and turned on the news. I was absolutely shocked. All of the stations were replaying clips of the second plane hitting (the clip of the first plane hadn't been released yet), both towers falling, and the destruction at the Pentagon. Over and over I watched people jumping from a hundred stories off the ground, and grown men and women weeping on the streets feeling helpless and lost. Suddenly and with pangs of guilt I realized why so many people had been upset at my school. They knew. They knew everything and I knew nothing. So instead of receiving reports throughout the day at planes crashed and towers fell, it came to me all at once through pictures and visibly upset newscasters trying to keep up their stoic facades while reporting the deaths of thousands of husbands, wives, parents, children, siblings, and friends. I didn't know anyone in NYC or DC, and even though the planes came out of our nearest airport, Logan, I didn't know anyone travelling at the time. I didn't have one person to focus on. They were all strangers to me. But that didn't make it any easier. As I watched the news through the evening, I began to imagine what it must have been like for the people in the second tower who did not have time or did not think to evacuate. I imagined what it must have been like to see a plane headed straight for the building you were working in. Or to be on the top floor, unable to get out and knowing that you were going to die. I couldn't handle those thoughts, but I kept watching the news and all that footage, even though I spent much of the night crying too hard to be able to see. The next day at school we talked exclusively about the attacks of the previous morning, and it was cathartic to see my classmates just as upset and angry as I was. Our teachers described these events as "definitive moments in history". "Your children," they said, "will ask you where you were when it happened, and will have no knowledge of a pre-9/11 world." There's a very strong feeling of sadness I get when I think about that. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: On September 11, I was in the 6th grade. I remember waking up like normal and going downstairs to eat breakfast when the phone rang. No one calls at seven in the morning. I answered and I remember my aunt telling me to have my parents turn on the news. Of course I wanted to see what was going on. I saw what was on and I thought that it was a movie, so I turned the channel and saw it again. I asked my parents what was going on and they told me. I was late to school that day. All of my teachers were talking about it. When I was in 8th grade I was able to go to New York and see ground zero for myself and it was amazing. I couldn't belive what I was seeing. I will never forget 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 story11776.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: Impact. This is the day our world will change forever. This is the beginning of the end. This is the end of an era of American security, of unconditional American freedom. Images and sounds bombard us and there is no escape. We close our eyes, and still we see the towers flaming, smoking, falling. We cover our ears, and still we hear the sounds of people screaming, of gargantuan monoliths dissolving before us. We stand as a nation, silent, and still. Some of us are weeping, and some of us are stoic. All of us feel the same basic emotions. We are scared, we are angry, we are sad. We stand as a nation, resilient and strong. These attacks have been meant to break our spirit, to drop us to our knees. They didn?t. We cried, we mourned, we acted. For now, we must focus on rescuing our fellow Americans, on helping the families of those so brutally murdered. And then... Impact. It happens again. Scarcely half an hour has passed since we last saw this. Now they?ve struck at our nation?s capital, boldly attacking the symbol of our military power. Again the same tides of emotion run over us. We are silent and still, gathered in streets and homes, in churches and schools, in stores and offices. We still weep, we still mourn, we are still angry. Again the images bombard us, the sounds of the wounded and the wails of lamentation fill the air (waves). Again, we stand as a nation, silent and still. Through the confusion and the rumors, through the speculation and the ?unconfirmed reports?, we remain resilient and strong. We do not know what will happen next, but we know that regardless, we will continue on. And then.... Impact. A third plane has fallen, apparently missing its target. Again, we stand together, again we mourn. By now we have seen armed military in our streets, jet fighters in our skies, and battleships off our coasts. It is not even 11 am, and already we are numb. Acts of war have been brought against our people and our nation. None of us have ever seen such destruction, such pain, such chaos before. Most of the world has joined us in our mourning and our pain. A few rejoice, and we see them do so on TV. We make note. We know we will be vindicated. And then.... We continue with our day. Classes are cancelled and stores are closed, so we spend the day with loved ones, trying to cope with such pain and fear. We tell the story over and over again, as if constant reiteration of it will prevent any more attacks. We stand as a nation, resilient and strong, and at the same time anxious and worried. We never asked for this war, but it has been brought to us, here and now. We stand as a nation, certain of our victory, but wary of the cost. We don?t want to see people die, we don?t want to lose our sons and daughters, our brothers and sisters, our mothers and fathers, but we will. That is almost certain. We stand as a nation, tense and ready, preparing for war. These savage and brutal attacks did not break our spirit. They did not stem our pride, nor did they weaken our nation. To the contrary, these attacks reinforced our spirit, they strengthened our pride, and they brought our nation together. And with that, we stand as a nation, resilient and strong, and we wait. We will bide our time, gather ourselves, and we set out to bring whoever perpetrated these attacks to justice. And then... I disconnect from the billion node interconnected patriotic matrix that America has become. I look around me. I see thousands of American flags that weren't there two days ago. I see gas guzzling SUVs running on Middle Eastern oil sporting American flags. And I reflect on what could make a people hate us so much. Some will say they're jealous, some will say they're religious fanatics. No one wants to admit that it's our lifestyles. No one wants to think about how we, one country amongst 180 others, use over half the world's oil, and produce half the world's waste. That oil fuels our lifestyles, powers our SUVs and B-2 Bombers. We then use those B-2 Bombers to protect the intrests of our SUVs. And I come to understand that that is one of the reasons a people could hate us so much. As I realize this, I still burn with anger and rage over what they have enacted upon us. I know that they'll pay in kind, and I'm left with an old adage that my father use to tell me constantly as I battled through school. "Two wrongs don't make a right" he'd always say. I'm left to stand here, pondering the tides of change that could potentially sweep this country, mourning the people lost, and trying to understand the world. And here I stand as an individual, silent and still. 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 story501.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 dropped my kids off at child day care center at Fort Hamilton and decided to drive fearing that I would be late for work. Everything was going as usual (traffic by the toll before entering the tunnel in Brooklyn). I had gone through the tunnel and was stopped at the light before the bridge that connected the finanial center when I heard an explosion and something hit the top of the car. I looked up and saw a smoke cloud on top of the first tower. In a panic, everyone waiting on that light tried to go reverse into the side street. I had made it to a street right behind the towers where I was trying to use my cell phone to call my boss. My phone didn't work so I had to get out of my vehicle to use a public phone. I had informed my boss that there was an explosion at the top of one of the World Trade center towers. I thought that it was a terrorist act because of the bomb explosion a few years back. When I got back in the car, the news broadcaster informed that it was a small plane so I just assumed that it was really an accident because prior to that week there were accidents involving small planes. I was waiting on the light right behind the second tower when the second plane hit and I saw the building light up right in front of me from bottom to the top and I paniced and tried to make an immediate right. I panicked because i didn't want to hit any of the pedestrians running away from the explosion. I made it as far as the south street seaport when I saw people running towards me and I heard noises like shots being fired and at this time I knew that it was a terrorist act because I had heard on the radio what was going on with the hijacking of the planes and about the plane diving into the pentagon. I started to scream out "Oh my God! they are coming after us to kill us with guns" and at that point I started to cry because the sounds from the building crumbling sounded like gun shots. Then the police came and ordered everyone out of their vehicles and directed us to go towards the waters. That's when the towers started to collapse and I saw people coming out the debris it was like a dream because all you saw was smoke from the debris and people coming out of nowhere. Some people were bloody and full of soot but they were walking as fast as they could. I saw three young ladies that attended either a high school or Middle school across the street from the towers and they looked really desperate. One was having problems with her asthma so I picked them up and I drove until we could get to the upperside of manhattan. I tell you that day I will never forget how one couldn't breathe because the debris made the air so thick. I was lucky to have been in my vehicle and if it wasn't for God I would have been one of the victims. It was only God that I didn't hit anyone in the street trying to get away from the explosion. I just felt so helpless that day like now when I think about it, I wish that I had taken some people in the car with me but in a panic I wasn't thinking about anything but getting out of there. I just thank God that I was one that survived. 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: My story is not unusual. I was driving southbound on I-95 on my way to a job interview in Sanford, Maine. I hardly ever turn my car radio on, but that morning something compelled me to. I turned on the radio just after the first plane hit. At that point they weren't sure if it was an accident or not. When the second plane hit, a chill ran up my spine. I instantly knew that we were victims of terrorism. I could not help becoming emotional and shedding tears on my way to the interview thinking about the innocent people in the planes and the towers. I am not a religious person, but that night I actually got on my knees in my apartment and prayed for the victims and their families, and all of America. I ended up getting the job I was interviewing for that day, but I just did not feel like celebrating. I could not bring myself to. The thing that amazes me the most is that I will never forget exactly where I was the moment I heard the news. I will never, ever forget what happened that day and I will remember the victims of 9-11 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/. Title A name given to the resource story9188.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: Lines Wntten, Teiza Rima, On the Northern Alliance' s Taking of Kunduz The Alliance of the North pursues The remnants of the Taliban Puritans who treated like Jews In the holocaust their own citizens Who are fleeing from Kundui that stews From our Air Force's mighty bombs' Zen Who had scared and Anthraxed to the news That the U.S. Forces are so advancing, Forcing these ~irds of prey to pew And kneel and genuflect... Allah The Lord from the Allah - 'al, the And "Ilah," god, supreme power - For all gods are One from A to Z So that our Yahweh is blood brother Muslim's submit, our vanity By which axiom and law, sisters And all brothers must join our Blut- Bruderschaft so that blisters Of war and hate, bury all to the roots. C copyright 2001 John Soldo 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 story626.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was about to leave to go to New York on that same morning around the same time that the first plane had hit the WTC. I realize I had to check the weather to see what to wear and how to dress my one yr. old daughter at that time. When I put on the t.v. I heard the news say a plane just crashed into the WTC. I really didn't pay much attention because I thought it was an accident, so I continue to get ready. Then I saw the second plane hit and it still didn't register in my mind that it was an attack because I didn't want to believe that. As I sat down in front of the t.v. my telephone rang it was my uncle who worked in building one asking questions about the buildings, "which building was hit" and can does it look bad. I thank God until this day that my uncle had decided to take vacation on that week because I would have been feeling the same way as the other victims family not that I'm not feeling sad anyway. My uncle worked there for 25 years and he had got me a job working there, every year I use to replace the people that go on vacation, so I did get to meet many people and that is why I'm sad. If my uncle didn't take his vaction that week like he always did every year instead of calling me from the brooklyn bridge he would have been trapped or buried under one of those buildings. Everyday before I had my daughter I use to leave the house to go to work around that time because I use to work on Broadway, so my morning commute was to take the path to the WTC and walk down Trinity or Broadway. In the evening I use to work at the WTC so I use to take the path home. And I believe until this day that if I didn't meet my baby's father at the WTC 3 yrs. ago I probably would have been on the path train or walking out of the WTC building during the collapse. I use to go to the bank in that building (xcel on the 39th fl). I can sit here all day but the point that I'm trying to make is that I feel God have given me so many chances to live and to keep my uncle here again on this earth, because he made it through the 93 bombing and a stick up in the elevator at gun point in the WTC on the 12 fl., (I don't know if you are aware of that story. As for me if I did'nt get pregnant and quit my job, or turn on the news that morning and oversleep, my daughter and myself would have been trapped, hurt or anythingelse that is heartbroken about that day. Before I go I want to leave this for the people of this world especially those with this question,"WHY DID GOD DO THIS". He didn't do this to hurt or destroy anyone's faith in him, everyone is going to have to die oneday and it was just those souls that was time to go. We would never know the reason "WHY", but I feel God has a reason for everything so stay prayful and always believe that oneday it would be better. 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 story6175.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: That Day One Year Later It was one of those days where you believed it was a sin to be made to have school inside. The air was warm and the sky was without a cloud. I was in my second period class, but due to block scheduling, it was my first class of the day. My Spanish teacher was a great educator, but she had a very monotonous voice that was barely keeping me from sleeping. I sat in the middle of the class, adjacent to the wall that hung a clock on it. I recollect staring at the clock, somehow believing I could speed the time up. As the bell finally rang, I went through my break rounds. I changed books, said ?Hi? to some friends, and proceeded to the Sports Lobby where the other Football players were. When I was bored with the conversation, I decided to dress out for my weight lifting class, and walk down the long hallway to the weight room. After stretching, Coach Renner told us to warm up with a two-lap jog. It is funny how you can remember the very last minutes before a cataclysmic event happens to you, but I vividly remember running on the inside track at a fast pace, as to keep up with my friend C.J. Coach Renner stopped us after only one lap and told us to relax talk amongst ourselves. As he faced us, he whispered over his left shoulder to a bald, heavyset man I had seen near the security office. They whispered back and forth, and then, with a large nod, Coach lifted both his arms to us in a ?lets everybody come this way? motion, as he muttered to another coach about an attack. My first thought of it was a bomb threat to the school. I wondered if we could maybe get out of school early because of it. As we were sat down in the uncomfortable weight room equipment, Coach excused himself for about twenty minutes, and a man I didn?t recognize sat down in his place in the office. D.C. 101 was blaring over the speakers, but nobody talking seemed to know just what was going on. Finally, A reporter came on saying that the World Trade Center had been hit with a private plane, apparently by accident. As we reflected and talked about this accident, I was puzzled why we were made to go inside. Five minutes later, I found out. The Pentagon was also hit with a 747 jet. This was no accident, I remember thinking. Something sounded familiar about the World Trade Center. I tried to think about it, but my mind was a blur of people I know in Washington. Our class joined Mr. Munoz?s class in the Driver?s Ed room, as the big screen T.V. blared Channel 5. ?The second tower has been hit!? said the invisible voice on the T.V. This was followed by screams and ?oh, my God!?s. Then it clicked. The Twin Towers?Dad...the Twin Towers?Dad. The following day I had received a concussion in Football practice, and one of the few things I remember my father saying to me at the hospital was, ? Ill be in New York all tomorrow, but ill be back tomorrow night.? Having been to New York, I asked him where he would have his meetings. ? The World Trade Center, ya know, the Twin Towers?? As this registered in my brain, I saw the collapse of the North Tower and the rubble crashing down as people screamed and ran for their lives. I stared at the T.V. for about ten seconds, calmly got up, walked to the bathroom and threw up for ten minutes. I ran through school looking for a cell phone, asking strangers for their own. I finally saw my friend Danny, as he put his back in his pocket. I fumbled my fingers with the memory of my Father?s cell phone number and when his voicemail picked up, I ran to the office to use their phone. As I waited for the chance to call my mother where she taught, I saw girls screaming at the top of their lungs for their parents, and tears of joy when a reassuring voice picked up the phone. After many times when the phone lines were too busy to pick up one more call, I finally reached my mother. She was crying, but trying to hold it in, for her Kindergarten students surrounded her. She had not been able to reach Dad, so I hung up and went back to the Driver?s Ed room to use Mr. Munoz?s cell phone. After reaching both my hysterical sisters, I finally reached my mother again, who told me she had a thirty second conversation with my father as he was exiting the second tower, where he was working that day. He told her he would call her back when he got outside. Two minutes later, the second tower collapsed with the first. I have never been overly religious, or even religious at all, but when I saw the second tower collapse with the possibility of my father not making it out in time, I threw myself on my knees and prayed for the life of my father. I would later find out that my father had gotten out of the building moments before it collapsed, but the people that were behind him about twenty feet did not. It was now 1:30pm. My father was alive, and I sat in Mr. Hamilton?s Health trailer, bewildered at the events that just took place. My sister picked me up early from school that day, and had taken me to her apartment to wait for the rest of my family to arrive at Home. For seven hours, I watched the T.V say the same things over and over. New news about a third hijacked plane that was crashed in Shankesville, Pennsylvania emerged, and I had the duty of calling my grandparents to tell them that their son had been in the World Trade Center, but had gotten out in time. My father called from a train station saying he would be home soon. I never asked my dad how he somehow got the train, being as everything in the country stopped at once. At 11:30 pm, my Father walked into the door of our house. I had never seen him look so consumed with grief as I did in the passing month. It seemed that the words I said to him didn?t register in his mind, but were rather were blown away as if I said nothing at all. Three months passed before he could talk about the experience in it?s entirety. The day came when he finally described his experience, over a glass or two of Scotch. . He told me of the smell of burning jet fuel and the intense heat of the crash burning his face. He described the feeling of helplessness he felt stepping over the mortally wounded, wishing to God for a way to save them. He vividly told me of the sight of seeing his co-workers diving out windows and little children crying over the body of their dead mothers. Before he could finish his story, I asked him to stop. I really couldn?t hear of his experience anymore, and I?m quite sure he didn?t want to continue reliving his nightmare anymore. 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 story7726.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: Now that we're observing the 5-year anniversary of the terroristic attack, that morning of that terrible scene, I was with my sister who is now expecting her third child. She was on the phone with a friend of hers, Chrissi Milby, that she had just gone to New York with for a holiday. She was there for a week like we have in our home a picture of the twin towers that they took. I was in the kitchen having breakfast when the news hit on television and got up from the table to see what was happening and it was a joke, I didn't want to believe it but, it was true because I was looking at it before me. I said a prayer to God immediately and felt much better. With today is 9/11, Brandie, who is my sister, was working at the time in a sporting good store, Hibbett's. The woman that she worked with was from New Zealand and had a proper accent that sounded British. I loved being around her when I was in the store which was only one time to buy a couple of racing car t-shirts. I met her and she was very sweet with a warm personality. Brandie had said that there was a prediction made about the attack which was the fact that the date was going to be 9/11 and everyone was going to be alerting 911 with how we were hit at the 9th hour of that morning. That is the truth like how I believe in Hinduism and have believed in for 7 years with how I got into through spiritual enlightenment and through George Harrison. I said a couple of mantras that day and felt much better with all prayers answered. The way that I've written about that day is the way that I've only talked about it with God and my family because with the terrorists are people who can't be trusted, people in society are just like them because they believe in doing the work of the devil as well. No one likes a terrorist because they are literally hated the way that the person of society is literally hated because of the destructive ways in being very satanic. In 5 years, the terrorists have been tried and sentenced to life in prison but, at the same, the people who still think just like them need to have a life sentence in prison so they can get there just dessert in being punished for their sins which are many. This is like knowing fully well the story of the fatal plane accident in Lexington,Kentucky of Flight 5191. What made those 49 passengers get killed was the faulty agenda planning of the pilot and the agenda schedule of the person at the control tower. The pilot is still living and that's good but, the families of the 49 passengers will never be the same ever again. The world is full sick people and they're to be pitied but, when judgement day gets here, they know where they're going to because their hellish thinking and lifestyle is matching all the time still now their final resting place for the idiocrasy and insanity. 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 story20604.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 teaching a preschool class at my daycare. When my sister called me with the news that something was going on in New York. I turned on the tv just before the second plane hit. I didn't know what to do. I just stood crying and called my husband at work to tell him. He had to calm me down before i could get out what happen. I was in shock all day long. I didn't even make sense when I tried to talk. I just cried. The next day I woke up angry, And for the first time I said I hope the kill the ones who did this. And God forgive me I still do. 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