446 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 worked in 4 World Trade Center and arrived into the PATH station under the 2WTC at 8:50am, minutes after the first plane hit. Thank God for quick thinking authorities at the PATH who did not know the gravity of the situation but decided not to let us get out of the train and re-routed us back to New Jersey. We were told that there was police activity upstairs. The announcement was met with several groans. Most people in the train got out at Newark, NJ, the first stop, with the idea that they could catch a ferry to work. I decided to take the train two stops further to Hoboken, where I lived. It was very quiet as I got out of the station. My cell phone wouldn't work. So I walked out to the water to get reception and find across the river the World Trade Centers burning. Police men were crying and screaming that people were jumping. It was surreal. I gathered near a group of people who had a radio and found out that it was two commercial jets that had crashed into the towers. There were rumors that there were two planes unaccounted for that might strike the area and someone shouted that the Pentagon had been hit. I thought the world was coming to an end and I went back to the train station to get a train home to my baby. They waited an hour to fill the train before it departed. As more people came in we heard that the first tower had collapsed and then the second. Around 11am our train departed Hoboken, NJ and as it came out of the station we saw the skyline for the first time without the Twin towers. 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 story3233.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: SEPT. 11 ,2001-TUESDAY.... THAT DAY, I ARRIVED WTC LOBBY AROUND 8:10 A.M. FROM JERSEY CITY, WHERE I LIVE. IT WAS A LITTLE BIT EARLY, SO I STOPPED BY AT "STRAWBERRY STORE" LOCATED AT WTC CONCOURSE TO BROWSE AROUND, THEN BUY MY BREAKFAST AT ONE OF THE DELI LOCATED AT THE CONCOURSE TOO. AS USUAL, I TOOK THE ELEVATOR GOING STRAIGHT TO 44TH FLR THEN TOOK THE ESCALATOR TO 45TH FLR. I ATE MY BREAKFAST WHILE STARTING MY COMPUTER TO START PRINTING MY REPORTS....THEN SUDDENLY I FELT THE BUILDING SHOOK LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE AND A VERY LOUD NOISE-EVERYONE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND ASK..."WHAT WAS THAT?"..THEN WE LOOKED AT THE WINDOW AND WE SAW DEBRIS FALLING DOWN....METALS,PAPERS,ETC....GOD I WAS SO NERVOUS (AS A SURVIVOR OF 1993 BOMBING...I'BECAME SO PARANOID). I HURRIEDLY GOT MY BAG (LEFT MY OTHER THINGS) AND TOOK MY PREGNANT OFFICEMATE AND HURRIEDLY WENT OUT FROM OUR OFFICE. WE MET SOME WORKERS AND WE LEARNED AT THAT MOMENT THAT A SMALL PLANE CRASH AT TOWER 1...WHEN WE GOT TO 44TH FLR AND ABOUT TO TAKE THE ELEVATOR-OUR SECURITY GUARDS ADVISED US TO TAKE THE STAIRS INSTEAD (LATER I FOUND OUT THAT THEY DIDN'T MAKE IT...GOD BLESS THEIR SOULS...). FROM 44TH FLR WE WENT DOWN-LIKE THERE WAS NO END...I CAN'T WAIT TO GET TO THE GROUND FLOOR. WHEN WE WERE AT 30'S FLR SOMEONE AT THE "PA" ANNOUNCE THAT TOWER 2 WAS NOT AFFECTED AND ONLY TOWER 1 AND IT WAS SAFE TO GO BACK...BUT FOR ME..NO WAY I NEED TO GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE...WHEN I AND MY PREGNANT CO-WORKER REACHED 10 OR 14TH FLR (CAN'T REMEMBER), A LADY OPENED THE DOOR AND SAID WE CAN TAKE THE ELEVATOR THAT WILL GET US DOWN TO THE LOBBY...I WAS HESITANT AT FIRST BUT I WAS WORRIED WITH MY CO- OFFICEMATE SINCE SHE IS PREGNANT. INSIDE THE ELEVATOR WE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND ASKED'" ARE WE DOING THE RIGHT THING INSIDE THIS ELEVATOR?" BUT THE DOOR CLOSED AND I PRAYED HARD THAT WE REACHED THE LOBBY QUICKLY. THANK GOD WE DID, AT THE LOBBY A LOT OF FIREMEN, POLICEMEN, WTC SECURITY GUARDS HELPING PEOPLE IN DIRECTING WHERE TO GET OUT...I COULD REMEMBER THOSE FACES OF THE FIREMEN WHO WERE STARTING TO ASSEMBLE AT THE LOBBY TO GO TO TOWER 1.... WE STARTED RUNNING TO GO TO THE ESCALATOR GOING OUT TO CHURCH STREET AS THAT WAS THE DIRECTION GIVEN TO US...APPROXIMATELY 10 STEPS BEFORE WE REACHED THE REVOLVING DOOR, A LOUD AND TREMBLING NOISE, LIKE THE TOWER IS BEING SHAKEN ( I FOUND OUT LATER THAT WAS THE SECOND HIT TOWER 2)-I SCREAMED AS I SAW DEBRIS FALLING AND ALL THE THINGS AT THE PLAZA, THE METALS WERE ALL GOING DOWN LIKE PAPER..I GOT SO HYSTERCAL-AND A GUY TOLD US TO GET BACK TO THE LOBBY...WE ARE ALL RUNNING...CRYING...I COULD SMELL FUEL, SMOKE AT THE CONCOURSE... A POLICEMEN WAS TELLING US TO GET TO THE SUBWAY (UNDER THE CONCOURSE)...E TRAIN...FULL OF PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON AS THEY WERE ONLY COMING TO GO TO WORK...POLICEMEN HOLDING THE TRAIN DOORS, YELLING TO US TO GET IN FAST...I THINK THAT WAS THE LAST TRAIN THAT DAY... MY OFFICEMATE GET OFF AT 23RD ST TO BE WITH HER MOTHER AND I WENT BY MYSELF TO 33RD ST, THINKING I COULD GET PATH TRAIN TO NJ...BUT AS I WENT UP THE STREET, I COULD SEE SMOKE FROM THE TOWER ( IDIN'T KNOW YET THAT TOWER 2 COLLAPSED).. I PASSED BY ST FRANCIS CHURCH THANK GOD FOR HELPING ME GET OUT...THEN I SAW CROWDED PEOPLE LOOKING ON A TV IN ONE OF THE STORE..GOD, THEN I SAW TOWER 1 COLLAPSING-GOD I CAN'T BELEIVED IT...EVERYONE WAS CRYING..I WALKED TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE I SHOULD BE GOING, MY MIND WAS BALNK, PEOPLE WALKING WERE CRYING, ONLY SIRENS YOU COULD HEAR, PEOPLE WALKING LIKE ZOMBIES....I REACHED MY SISTER'S OFFICE AT 53RD AND 7TH AND WHEN THEY SAW ME THEY CRIED AND HUG ME, AS THEY CANNOT CONTACT ME AND THOUGHT I DIDN'T MAKE IT OUT... WE WERE ABLE TO GET HOME SAFELY THROUGH THE FERRY WAITING ON THE LINE FOR 3 HOURS...I NEVER FELT SO RELIEVED WHEN I REACHED NJ AND SAW MY FAMILY..THE NEXT FEW DAY AS I LEARNED WHAT HAPPENED I FELT SO WEAK AND SICK-SAD AND ANGRY..NOW, I'M ABLE TO FACE IT BUT STILL FEEL THE SADNESS EVERYTIME WE TALKED ABOUT IT.. OUR COMPANY MOVED BACK BACK TO DOWNTON A BLOCK AWAY FROM GROUND ZERO-FIRST IT BOTHERS ME BUT NOW I LEARNED TO ACCEPT IT. I DIDN'T GO TO WORK ON SEPT 11 (IST ANNIVERSARY) BECAUSE OF THE EMOTIONAL FEELINGS IT WILL BRING ME. MAY GOD ALWAYS BLESS US ALL AND ALWAYS LIVE TO THE FULLEST... 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 story7295.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was at my job in the Emergency Department of a local hospital. It wasn't a very busy morning so I stepped outside to enjoy a few minutes of that gorgeous morning. I walked back into the ER through the triage area and stopped to catch the latest news on the Today Show and was struck dumb by what I saw. After the attack had registered, I immediately thought of my brother-in-law who was working somewhere in Manhattan, exactly where I did not know. I spent all that morning waiting and watching the unfolding horror, not knowing. I was not the only one. My family and I are lucky, our brother was not close enough to be injured. Our hearts and prayers go out to those who were not so fortunate. The ER, in which I worked, was put on high alert, expecting the influx of casualties especially burns (the hospital is a regional burn center) that never arrived. The realization that we would not be needed was a reality that was hard to face. I will never forget that feeling of total helplessness. 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 story5012.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 gotten into the habit of watching the early morning news as I got ready for work. On Sept. 11, I had just turned on the tv and instead of our local anchors, there was Peter Jennings. I knew something was wrong and just then they switched to a live view of the Twin Towers. I plopped on my bed, couldn't believe my eyes, there was one tower on fire and they said that a plane had just flown through it! As Mr. Jennings was speaking in the background, I caught out of the corner of the screen the second plane coming straight for the other tower! The tears immediately started flowing and all I can remember saying at that moment was, Oh My God! Oh My God! My youngest daughter came into the bedroom and asked me what was wrong, I just pointed at the tv. She asked me what was going on and I explained to her what had just happened. She asked me then, she is 14, why it upset me so much, it was in New York and we were in California. I then sat her down and explained to her that this was an attack on America and that everyone in our country would be affected by this. It was not until a couple of months later that it finally sunk in and she understood. I called both my parents, waking them up out of bed, as it was only a little after 6am in California. I told them to turn on the news, that planes had just hit the Towers in New York. As I was speaking to my stepmother, the plane hit the Pentagon! I was mortified and practically moaned over the phone! I sent my daughters to school and went immediately to work. I work for the Dept. of Transportation in Northern California. We listened to the radio until Governor Davis sent all government employees home for the rest of the day. I run the mailroom here at Caltrans and for the next two months we had to use special procedures for handling the mail. It has been an emotional experience, one that I will never forget. 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 story1698.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 brought back a truck load of supplies from a warehousee to our factory. I went up to the office to grab a cup of coffe when I noticed everyone was in the breakroom watching TV. I asked what was going on when someone commented that a plane had "crashed" into the World Trade Center. I commented "Oh we're being attacked". People looked at me and said things like "No, they think the pilot had a heart attack or it was a mechanical error". I replied "No we are being attacked". People were about to start arguing with me (a dirty little driver) when suudenly..."This just in, a second plane has crashed into the towers...the report is unconfirmed but I repeat...we have reports comming in that a second plane has crashed into the World Trade Center and we will bring you etails as they become available...." People looked at me and started asking "Oh my God waht do we do". Now I was angry and I replied, "We shut the hell up and listen for further instructions. I then phoned my mom and dad because my sister worked just five blocks from the towers. To this day I thank God that my sister is ok. 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 story10524.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: We could feel the building shake across the water in Brooklyn. Who could have ever thought of the horrors we were to witness. Looking out the window, we could see the smoke and the papers flying through the air. I was 4 months pregnant with my first child and couldn't believe that something this horrific could happen. I couldn't help thinking that the papers flying through the air looked like angels flying through a sea of despair. How true that was. We couldn't get direct information in the school. We couldn't find our loved ones - some never did get to say goodbye. We had to stay calm for the elementary school children. How can you explain to such small children the impact of the events? The days following were 'numb'. I believe that the rain was the tears cried in heaven by those who had to look down upon us. They couldn't keep us safe. So many new angels. It is hard to believe that so many were needed. Those who found loved ones safe and sound were thankful for answered prayers. Those who did not continued to hold out hope. Following such a great tragedy, the people of New York came together like never before. There was such a sense of mourning, brotherhood, and comraderie. Since this tragic day in September 2001, this sense of brotherhood has waned. This continues to add to the tragedy of all those lost souls. My daughter is proof that life is precious. May you all find such proof of life and love. May you all remember loved ones here and passed. Keep them and your neighbors in your heart. May God bless you all. We will see our loved ones again, in a happier and safer place. 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 story4533.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: Construction workers were banging away for days on the floor above me so noise and thuds of dropped equipment were nothing new. This time they moved the whole floor on a slant as an earthquake would disembowel the contents of tidy home. Papers were flying outside the tiny windows near my cubicle like a ticker-tape parade. Yet as a tried and true in-your-face New Yorker (yes, I'm still a New Yorker although I've lived in the Garden State for six years), not even the slanted floor or flying papers concerned me. It wasn't until my normally gentle-voiced supervisor screamed, "Everybody, get out" that I thought there was a problem. I stopped to get my huge bag and tote bag because as any woman will tell you, your bag contains everything important in life. Or so I thought. I methodically walked down seventeen floors of lightly smoke-filled stairs. I remember seeing firemen climbing in the opposite direction which gave me my first clue of what was happening - a fire. Reaching the promenade level of One World Trade Center, I wasn't prepared for the sight. Glass was everywhere. There were injured. Policeman were screaming, "Walk, don't run. Cover your heads. Don't look back!" I distinctly remember hearing thumps but I had no frame of reference for the sound. It wasn't until much later that I learned that the thumps were bodies hitting the ground. "Don't look back" was not only a safety order but a call that protected my now-fragile mental state. To this day, I feel blessed that I didn't witness the horror of seeing my fellow man - well you fill in the blanks. Then an anonymous voice said, "A plane hit the building." I kept walking, stopping a few minutes later to what I thought was the sound of a sonic boom. A huge plane was aiming directly for Tower Two and in the minute that it would take me to turn my head, the plane struck. I witnessed a body plunging to finality. Fear finally struck and I started to run. I heard one of my co-workers screaming, "Oh my God. Oh my God!" I knew what he was witnessing and I didn't look back. My flashbacks include the plane hitting Tower Two but thankfully I wasn't witness to masses of my friends dying. I was still running, trying to think where I should run to. Were there more kamikazes to come? My husband worked at the Verizon building on Broad Street. Where was Broad Street? I stopped a detective directing traffic to ask him in which direction I should run. He pointed me to safety's direction. "Thank you for helping us today, officer." He knew that this was more than just a casual thank you. I somehow reached Broad Street and found my husband. Nothing has been the same since. I've lost my job of 29 years due to the terrorist cowards. I saw a therapist. Surely, I would need some kind of help after facing death. After two sessions, he sent me packing reassuring me that I would be fine. To an extent, he was right. No one ever forgets a brush with death, the loss of loved ones or a long-held job. But from that tragedy, a new life has started for me. I'm attending Brookdale Community College on a full-time basis. I always wanted to be a registered nurse. Now at 51 years of age, I'm getting the opportunity to fulfill a dream that I though had eluded me. And now I carry the smallest of bags. My family, the important treasures of my life, couldn't possibly fit in there. 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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: A bulletin interrupted the morning news in my apartment on September 11, 2001: ?An aircraft hit one of the World Trade Center?s Twin Towers in lower Manhattan.? The radio report cut to an eyewitness in the south Tower. He described the crash in English with a Jamaican lilt. Companies in the World Trade Center employ thousands of citizens and immigrants from the West Indies and Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America. At 9:00 A.M. I flipped on the TV, stomach churning. Manhattan is where I was born and raised; my mother, family, and friends live there. The TV image showed a smoldering north Tower. Suddenly, I saw?live?a plane traveling at demonic speed slam into the south Tower. In mourning, I left to drive to work. The highway from Washington, D.C., to my employer, a university in northern Virginia, passes the Pentagon. Traffic was thinning as I glimpsed a shiny blur low in the horizon. It was the hijacked Dulles flight. Fifteen seconds later the military complex was fading in my rearview mirror, and the jet had plunged into its target. On a cloudless day cars heading toward the Capitol turned on their lights, vehicles and drivers gaping wide-eyed. When I arrived on campus minutes afterward, few seemed to know what had happened. In my office the phone rang. I grabbed the receiver and heard my mother crying: ?are you OK?? At the Manhattan school that she helps to run, I could hear children playing. Some of their parents, she said, might not return to them. ?What about the Pentagon? Is the White House under attack?? She asked. My wife, I choked, is blocks from the White House. As another pirated flight hurtled toward the Capitol, I phoned my wife at her job but there was no answer. Two hours elapsed before she contacted me. It would be the last call until late afternoon, with communications jamming in the panic. In the unnatural quiet we realized the worst: an immense death toll of parents, spouses, sons and daughters, artists, athletes, dreamers, loved ones. My lecture plan for the day was to introduce the great empires of ancient Africa but I could not teach. Half the class straggled in, angry and bewildered. Recriminations poured forth. America was bearing the brunt of foreign extremism, students growled. I urged them to recall the 1998 embassy attacks in Africa. When our citizens were murdered, Kenya and Tanzania suffered horrible casualties as well. We reflected on the Oklahoma City bombing. Two terrorists convicted for that diabolical crime gouged the nation. History records their names as Timothy and Terry, U.S. citizens. They believed the mythic Anglo-Saxon heartland was under threat from a Big Brother, immigrant-loving state. Their target, a government building, was filled with people from the heartland, many of them children. In the wake of detonation, Timothy and Terry slithered into hiding, while some Americans bayed for ?Arab? blood. Students remembered this event and spoke of respecting law-abiding people. Now that the U.S. military glares at an erratically defined Islamic enemy I wonder: Will we be able to engage in painful dialogue about the origins and consequences of September 11, 2001? I have taken solace from the international messages that my family received in the aftermath of the colossal violence. An ?aunt? in Islamabad, a Pakistani who fasts at Ramadan, was praying for us. Another ?cousin? from Tunisia, a muslim and scholar of Romantic poetry, sent his love. Calls and emails from friends in Pietermaritzburg, Johannesburg, and Durban offered heartfelt solidarity to my family and all the victims. Such support came at a crucial moment. We were seeking ?unaccounted for? people. Today, I learned the last of my ?unaccounted for,? Nick the school buddy and New York City fireman, was alive. So many other families would be hollowed out by loss and sorrow. Firemen down the avenue from Nick?s unit raced to the burning Towers. Their stationhouse now sat empty--every truck and uniformed man entombed in the rubble under a choking mist of pulverized concrete. As the horror sinks in and those responsible are ?credibly? identified, what else will be entombed? Will it be our ideals of justice; our critical understanding of America?s role in the world; our struggles for sensible openness? More important, will the drive to retaliate pull Americans from a pit of tragedy into a cloud of vengeance? We grieve for so much. written 9/14/01 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story57.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Afganistan/Mideast Arabs in U.S. Civil Liberties/Discrimination Firefighters Internet Military Pentagon Personal connection to someone at site Religion Students/Teachers U.S. retribution DC:2 Sep 11- Sep 21, 2001 Feature 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 getting ready for work when my friend, Ellen, called me and told me to turn on TV. I saw the first World Trade Tower on fire immediately after being struck by the first plane. I was watching, not realizing what I was seeing when the second plane hit the second World Trade Tower. The horror was too much for my mind to behold. I felt as though I were watching some terrible horrow show. I called work and told them to tune in the TV in our conference room. I then called my two children, who happen to both live in Washington, DC. They had not left for work yet and were both still at home. I told them to turn on the TV. I then finished getting dressed and was on my way to work when the third plane hit the Pentagon. I then changed my mind about going to work and went to my friend, Mary's, house where I stayed until 8:00 pm glued to the TV set and watched the tragic events of that terrible day unfold. I could not get through on the telephone lines again that day to talk to my children, although I knew they would not be going into the city as it had been closed off to the public. I will never forget that day or how it changed me and the entire world around me. 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 story3790.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: At around six I was awakened by my father. I sleepily wandered into the living room to see him staring at the TV. Although my father wasn't crying on the outside I knew he was on the inside because as I turned to view the TV I saw my first look t the smoking hulk of the towers. I couldn?t believe that someone, anyone would have a level of malice and be so uncontrolled to do such a thing. The second plane had not startled me because as I saw the first plane I knew this wasn't an accident. O how I would love to believe it was an accident but I knew better. My first emotion was on of the pain of those poor soles who would commit such a crime. All my father could do was watch as the towers crumbled and fell. It was like we cared not for those among the dead as fellow Americans, but as family. Brothers and sisters. Mothers and daughters. Fathers and sons. those who had in there last hour had the faith to join for one cause. So, family, I implore you to not let their deaths be in vain. isa f. 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 story3660.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 have family that worked at the world trade center. My uncle's and some cousin's. And I was woken up to this. My alarm was set to the radio to wake me up, and the first thing I heard when I woke up was, "they are calling it a terrorist attack" I ran to the living room and turned on the TV that's when I saw the second plane hit the tower. I just fell to the couch. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I called my family on the East Coast right away! They told my that my uncle and cousins had already gone into work that day. And they were waiting to see if the were okay. My mother told me I still had to go to school that day. And that she would sit by the phone for my aunt's to call. I was in shock. I could not do anything at school. I spent most of the day in the auditorium with the rest of the students that could not handle what was going on. when the school got a call from my mother and told me that my uncle was okay but they were still looking for my cousins. I cried because my uncle was okay but also that we didn't know if my cousins were okay. I don't think I slept at all that night. My economics teacher decided to show us a video of the news reports that were on that night. I don't think any of us were ready to see that. Most of the girls were in tears by the first few minutes of the videos. And you could hear a few of the guys crying a tear too. Well one year later my cousin is still missing. I can't really understand why this has happened my cousin was a good guy. He was going to be married in a few weeks. September 28th, that was the date. Now his fianc?e is part of the family. But not in the way we had hoped. My aunt feels she family anyway. Even if she doesn't have a ring on her finger. She's till my cousin too. I think we all need to understand that this was done out of anger and hate. We need to take out what has done this to us. The terrorists need to stop. What I would like to do is. Get all of them in a room and show them what the have done the families they have destroyed! And ask them this. How would you feel if some killed you family because they didn't like the way your government worked! How would you feel if you didn't know if your family was live or dead because someone used them to kill thousands of others! But I don't know if that would work. I don't think they would care. And that's what kills me. They don't care. 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 story3435.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. 209.129.16.5 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: Im a city employee,at the time I was spraying weed killer along a major hwy. when my supervisor came by and told me what happened,at first i thought it was a sick joke but his tone of voice startled me .He told me a jet had slammed into the world trade center, I ran to my truck to listen to the radio when the second plane hit.Ijust could not believe it,my feelings at the time were a mix of anguish and anger . I thought who in Gods name would do such a thing,I first thought it was an attack by the chinese,but after finding out the truth i could not believe it.We were on a state of high alert ,we were called to the mayors office and were ordered to stand by and wait. We thought chicago would be next.We ha d to secure all the main water pumps ,stations etc. the fire and police depts.were on alert as well and we all worked on secureing the city for the worst.As long as i may live Ishall never forget that sight of the planes ,the people and the pure horror of that day.God Bless America. Mark E. Petrelli Chicago Heights, Illinois 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 story6605.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was at work when everything happened. My boss came running up the stairs in a panic telling me that a plane just flew into one of the buildings. I was in shock. It didn't really hit me until we turned on the TV at work and watched as the second plane flew into the other tower. Everyone around me was stunned and no one was working. They let everyone go home, and all I did was watch in horror what was happening on TV. The thing that hurt me the most was watching the people jump from the buildings. I will never forget that day on September 11. It was the worst thing I have ever seen. All I wanted to do was be with my family. It was my brothers 25th birthday on that day, and I know he will never forget what happened. My heart goes out to all those who lost family and friends in that horrible terrorist attack. May God be with you all and keep you safe. 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 story3307.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: When the World Trade Center towers were brought down by hijacked airplanes five years ago, I was in fourth grade. My sister woke me up and told me to come downstairs to watch what was happening in New York. I had never even heard of the World Trade Center before in my life. The only thing being shown on TV was a grainy recording of the first tower smoking and the second one being hit, played over and over again. After eating breakfast and going to school, I had no idea what was going on until my teacher explained it to us. Then, all the students were assembled outside on the very steep hill holding red, white and blue papers to form the American flag. The image taken can probably be found online. The school was Trailside Elementary, in Anchorage, Alaska. After that day, I never heard about it very often; only when the anniversary came around and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars flared up. Thinking about the people who jumped from the towers instead of being burned alive makes me sad. Watching a documentary with actual footage of the towers and hearing the people who jumped hitting the ground was enough to make me cringe, not to mention the screaming people who were on fire. They knew that they were going to die and they had one last choice of which way they were going to go out. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story20784.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. 2006-09-12 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 209.193.45.9 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 threw a can into the empty trash can. It clattered and, simultaneously, I heard a huge explosion from somewhere outside the building. I later found out the explosion was the plane hitting the Pentagon perhaps five miles from the office. But at the time, I kept on working. For some reason, around 11:30, I got up and looked out the window. The parking lot was empty except for my woebegon minivan. We'd been evacuated except for a couple of key people who stayed to answer non-stop phone calls about the attacks--and me, who'd been forgotten. I stayed at work too, waiting to pick up my son from high school, not afraid, wanting to help but not knowing how, answering phones, clicking back and forth among on-line news sources and listening to the radio. At home, my son and I watched television non-stop until sometime the following evening. I even kept it on when I finally fell asleep. I cried and felt awe for people's courage. Especially for the bravery of passengers on the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania. People from across the country called to be sure we were safe since we live in the Washington area. My brother called often. He is a civilian who has worked for almost 20 years in a top secret security branch of the Department of the Navy. Although his offices are currently in Maryland, many of his long-term colleagues were moving into the section of the Pentagon the plane hit. He didn't know for days if his friends were casualties and he kept watch as well with one co-worker whose daughter worked in the World Trade Center. By early afternoon they found out she'd overslept and planned to come to work late and so she was safe. Has September 11 changed everything as we often hear? I'm not wise enough to know. What I fear it has done is to warp patriotism into isolationism. It's a cliche, but it's true: people die by tens of thousands all over the planet everyday from terrorism--from tribal and ethnic warfare, oppression, starvation and disease. But in America we mostly seem to experience this world order second-hand. September 11 brought the everyday lives of people in strife-torn countries into focus a little. But rather than increasing our understanding of how much of the world's population lives, I am afraid of the narrow anti-terrorist agenda articulated for this country. While the outreach is global, the motives appear selective, unilateral and terribly selfish. I hope I am wrong. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story35.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. 2002-02-04 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 64.156.242.2 Annotation Annotations to this item. Foreign Policy Internet Military Patriotism Politics and politicians Radio Coverage Telephones and Cell Phones Television Coverage Terrorism U.S. retribution DC:3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I remember being at my computer at work when the word went around that a plane hit one of the Twin Towers. We were all, like, "HuH? A plane hit the building? You SURE??" Then all the radios on the floor were turned on. By that time, the second plane had hit. At first we thought it was an accident. Now we're all thinking "Terrorists!!" We stayed at our desks and kept listening to the radios. In the meantime I tried to call my husband who was in the city, a bit uptown from the towers. The phones weren't working. I tried to e-mail and amazingly the e-mail service was still operational. He told me he was okay and would keep in touch. At some point a TV was turned on in the big board room and the next thing we heard was "The building is going to fall!!". We all rushed into the room in time to see the South tower collapse. It was like a movie or something - it didn't seem real - it COULDN'T be real! And just when you thought it couldn't be worse, not long after, the North tower fell and we all collapsed in each others arms and cried and cried over the horror of it all. I felt numb the rest of the day. It was the first time I could remember where I watched nothing but news reports for days. Here it is, one year later, and I spent the entire morning watching the reading of the names and crying for all those who lost their lives on that fateful day. This should not have happened and God help us, let it not happen again!! Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story2453.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. 24.191.3.35 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 would like to say that I saw this attack three years before it happened. I told my mother about it back in nineteen-ninety-eight. When I was told what had happened on my job pure shock and excitement broke out, maybe because I work in a school building with elementary children. I just wanted to protect the children as well as my own biological children. I cried so hard because I had seen this day! I have seen more, but sometimes people don't believe until the inevitable happens. Sincerely, Doris E. Rainey 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 story6133.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. 209.158.97.107 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 father had a delicate surgery on September 09th, 2001. My family was pretty nervous about him. I was on that time studying at the university and working on a NGO in Peru, my country. So my schedule were not very rigid. I wook up at 5.40 am on September 11th 2001, that day. I could not sleep at all so I turned the TV on. At that time, the daily news TV programms start in Peru. This day main issue was an strike of public transport service in Lima, so I decided to go to the bed again. It wasn't that important. Three hours later I turned the TV on, again, and what I saw was so shocking. It was an airplane crashing the WTC, live and direct. I can remember the words of the local reporter about it. He said that it was a world-scale tragedy. He barely talked when the second plane crashed. I was confused, I could not understand it because a couple of hours ago the most important event in daily TV programs of Lima was the strike and not terrorist attacks in NYC or DC. Ten minutes after the second attack, I left my bedroom and went to my parents'. My mother was still sleeping. I woke her up and told to watch the TV, that US was attacked. Then I took the cell phone and called my dad's bedroom at the hospital. I told him to watch the TV. He told me he was watching it since the very initial images the international TV programms were shown. "Ok -I told him-. See you later". I hung up and the silence in my department was tremendous. My mother did not say anything, just kept watching the TV, so do I. Each one in our bedrooms. The images I saw that day will never be forgotten. Neither the silence. 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 story20573.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 school and we were coming from a assembly.The principal is very worry shes thinking what could happen next and i'm in class crying because i always wanted to go see the biggest building of my life and be able to know what happen to me so while the news reporters are trying to find out what's happeing and i'm there trying to see if my friends in new york if there ok and thinking if a airplane is going to hit Miami Florida.I wonder in life if i should be scare or should i just watch out in life.Life is to hard espisially a gurl for my age yazmyn, from miami florida 33145 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 story665.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. 2002-05-23 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 168.221.27.193 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 my old high school in Palos Heights, Il. I was in my second period class. I think it was around 9:22 am when my teacher anounced this awful tragedy. The whole school was shocked, it was unbelivable. My School's Name was Alan B. Shepard High School. It was very tragic in the school that whole week. In my third period class, we watched on the television. We all saw in my third period class the second plane hit the second tower. We saw the towers collapse. It was like a dream. Our school for a month and after all we did was think about 9/11. We hung posters, We made posters, We made a big Wall Covering for 9/11. The whole school signed it(almost). It was really unbelievable. My one teacher was crying. Shortly after 9/11 we went on the internet and went on America's Most Wanted and saw the JERK, Osama Bin Laden. .Thanks for Hearing my Story. R.C 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 story8997.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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