521 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: On September 11, I woke up later than usual.I was running late for school and my dad decided to drive me to school. We heard on the radio that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. I thought back to a few years before when demonstrators in Seattle had taken part in violent protests on the World Trade Organization. I thought this was going on in Seattle, which is just south of Everett where I live. That's why I couldn't understand why the radio DJ kept saying the events were taking place at around nine o'clock Eastern time. When I got to school, all the classrooms had the TV's on and teachers were standing up watching. All the students began watching also. As people realized what was going on, it got silent in the rooms. My first period was was PE, so I headed down to the gym, and got changed. When I came out, someone told me both the towers had collapsed. I was shocked and then thought maybe this person was wrong, just exagerating. Maybe only part of the building had collapsed. But both towers had completely fallen. When I got to second period, my teacher had the TV on. I was glad to finally be able to see what was going on. I couldn't believe my eyes. The screen said "America Under Attack" in big red letters. They kept showing images of the planes crashing into the buildings over and over. Just when I thought I'd seen each camera angle of the attack, another one came on and completely blew us away. It was then reported that another plane had hit the Pentagon, and even more planes may be hijacked. As all this was happening, it was announced that all air travel had been canceled and all flights grounded. I was worried that another plane would hit somewhere else any minute. We went about our school day as normal as possible, but it was hard. Every chance we got, we asked our teachers to turn on the TV and see what was happening. During fifth period, the choir teacher came on the loud speaker and sang the national anthem. After school I realized that I'd lost my bus money and had to walk all the way home. I stopped at the mall, and everything was closed due to the events that had taken place on the East Coast. It was weird to see the entire mall closed on a weekday when it was usually packed. After I got home I watched President Bush address the nation. It felt almost like a nightmare. I didn't really believe what was happening, but I knew it had happened. When I went to bed I thought about all the people who lost their lives and hoped that their families had some sense of closure. September 11 was absolutely the worst day I had ever seen. 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 story9280.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was sleeping until my mom woke me up and told me the news and after she did I cried, I cried like I've never cried before. All morning, day and night I couldn't stop crying, praying and watching the News. In between I listened to Patriotic music on the radio stations and my CD's. I'll always remember those people in my prayers and in my thoughts. I will also remember that when I woke up, my mom's arms were wide open for me and I hugged her. 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 story6793.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. 208.190.213.25 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 didnt know anything about the attacks until 10:00, which was 4th p.d. for us. I walked in 4th p.d. two minutes late, and i noticed everyone was real quiet, and still. I looked up, after noticing the TV was on (which rarely happens during 4th p.d.) and i saw the news showing the planes hitting the Twin Towers. At first, I didnt know what the extent of it was..I didnt realize it was that bad..It was a day I will never forget. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story10187.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2003-11-10 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 24.154.88.16 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I had just come out of the Doctor's office. When I started my car, the radio announcer was relaying the fact that the World Trade Center had just had a plane fly into one of the twin towers. He speculated that this was not an accident and suspected terrorism. On my way to work, the information was relayed that people were jumping from the tower. I arrived at work and learned that another plane had targeted the other tower. This felt like a nightmare. People at work had the TV on and the footage was horrible. I will never forget the helpless feeling and the sheer horror I experienced that people could actually intentionally do something like this to other human beings. I'll never forget September 11, 2001 as long as I live. 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 story3681.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 working with a government agency not very far at all from the Pentagon. A small group was gathered in a room. I was talking about work that I was doing for their agency. Two others were meeting with us, although they weren't in the room. They were on the phone listening in from Atlanta. A few minutes into my presentation, a man ran into the room and said that a small plane had hit the World Trade Center. We were stunned. We attributed the collision to pilot error. Minutes later he entered again to tell us that a second plane had hit the other tower. We no longer thought pilot error was involved. As we were discussing our ability to continue our work on that day, I noticed dark clouds of smoke through the window across the room. I was facing that way. The others were looking at me. I asked them about the smoke, wondering out loud if it was a car fire. As we were pondering the cause of the smoke, the same man entered again and said that a plane had hit the Pentagon and that at least one other plane was unaccounted for. We'd found the cause of the smoke. The meeting was over, as was our complacency and ease. Much changed, but maybe not enough. 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 story7805.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. 2002-09-17 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 68.8.61.26 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I had just returned from a wedding in San Fran on Monday evening, September 10 in a storm. Tuesday was my first day back to work in four days. I was pretty anxious that morning b/c I had a meeting to run that evening and had a few things to do to prepare for it. At 8:50 or so, one of my co-workers comes into my office and says "A plane hit the World Trade Center". She had a very serious face and was making, I thought, a little too much of it. I guess I was thinking, that's terrible, but freak accidents happen. The woman I share my office with and I went to look out the window to see what it was like. It was terrible, papers and fire and glass. I am lucky to not have seen the people jumping, which I found out later on the news was going on. I walked back and forth often in the 15 minutes that passed between the two plane hits. On one occassion, my office mate and I were watching when a plane few righy by the window I was looking out of. I should mention that I work on the 25th floor of the building right next to battery park. The office I was in was a corner office that has a view looking straight up Broadway and of the Hudson River and Lady Liberty. Quite exquisit. Anyway, So we are watching the building and I was thinking about everyone trapped in the building when the plane flew right by my window. I heard it coming, but really did not know or realize what was going on till I saw it sail straight for the second tower. The plane was so close to my window I could see the belly and the doors for the landing gear. I didn't really know what to think. Maybe this is a movie, or maybe the plane is going to try and help, or... All I remember was watching the plane sail into the tower. It is an image I'll never forget. It burst into flames and paper and glass and smoke was everywhere. I didn't know what to do. I felt pretty safe in my building and felt that if I went outside I would have been in more danger. I was in my building when the towers fell. I felt the rumble of both them and thought more planes were coming. When the first building fell, i really couldn't tell that it had. By the time I got to the window there was a huge brown billowing cloud of smoke and dust and everyone who had gathered to watch in Battery Park and the surrounding area went running. These people had nowhere to go. A clear beautiful day turned into a big brown cloud of smoke that enveloped the entire area. I could see nothing outside the window. When the second building fell I only felt it, and could not see it, but more dust came flying around the windows and I covered everything again. We were all forced to leave the building around 11 am. By this time the air had lightened a little and it wasn't that thick as before. My office mate and I walked out with wet rags for our faces and started our 5 hour trek uptown by way of the east side. People were everywhere. If was brown and gray by work, but the further away we got from the area, the clearer the day became. Almost seemed as nothing happened at all. The police were everywhere and sirens where the music of the day. It was rough, constantly hearing those sirens... It still is. People were offering water and bathrooms and directions. The Brooklyn Bridge hadn't seen as many foot passengers in a year as it saw on that day. We walked and walked. We actually stopped for food. It was hte only thing I could think to do to keep from becoming hysterical. We walked to Union Square, when a fighter plane flew over head. I thought it was more attacks. I almost dove for cover. My heart started beating really hard. It was a hard day. I finally made it up to 33th Street and third avenue where I was able to catch a bus to queens through the midtown tunnel. It left me off on the other side, where I walked home. I live in Astoria and the only thing I could think about was getting out of the city. I got home around 5 pm. 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 story52.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. 2002-02-09 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 204.60.209.92 Annotation Annotations to this item. Military Struggle to get home WTC, attack NY:2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: Last year on September 11th I was in my science class when one of the kids in my class came from the bathroom and said that the world trade center had been hit. Before that day I never knew what the world trade center was. I didn't know what it did or that we had one. So I wasn't really affected by it. The only thing that really scared me was when the pentagon got hit because my uncle works there. But before I could really start worrying my dad called the school and told me was 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 story8115.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. 2002-09-24 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 152.163.188.195 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 heart is heavy today...one year later...9-11-02. This is my story of how I was deeply effected by a nation's tragedy that was so many thousand miles away from me, yet it hit home like nothing I've ever felt before. I was getting ready for work, and I was listening to the local news on TV. I heard them talking about the World Trade Center and how it was on fire, so I stopped getting ready for a moment to watch the TV. I then saw an airplane fly directly into the World Trade Center?! WOW, I thought to myself, was that real? Did that just happened? Was it a replay of a movie or something? I wish that's what it was, but the reality of it soon set in and my heart sunk. I was in shock and could not believe my eyes, I was scared. I later learned that terrorists had planned an attack on America and that other planes had been hijacked as well. It was all so sad. So many innocent people had lost their lives that day. Even though I did not know any of those people who died that day, I felt as if I knew all of them, and I felt so bad for all of the families and friends who had lost their loved ones. I couldn't believe that it had effected me so deep, and a part of me had died with them. One year ago today, marks the anniversary of these tragic events that rocked my world. I will always remember those people who became our heros, and gave their lives to save another. My heart is heavy today, but knowing that everyone from across the country came together and united as one, gives me strength. I love this country! May this day and everyday be a day of remembrance. 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 story3358.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. 65.211.224.2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I am a college student at the University of Baltimore and I was at the school that morning. I had a 9:30 class and I was wasting time at the computer center on campus. About 9:10 or so, someone came in to the room and said we were under attack and they had bombeed the World Trade Center in New York. I doubted this highly, yet I had to investigate. I immediately went to the New York Times website, where I found a photo of the first building on fire, with an accompanying video. My first thought was a lone person with a mental deficiency had hijacked the plane, and something went seriously wrong. Unfortunately, I had to go to class without more information. I arrived at class, and the professor had only heard breifly about it with no details. Some classmates had not heard anything at all, since it happenned during their commute. I seemed to be in possession of the most knowledge, so I relayed the information I had. We debated about whether to continue with class, and I opinioned that one nut job should not disrupt the entire class. I had no idea of the depth or impact of the collision at that time, but it was my hope that minimal damage had occurred. We decided to continue our class on American Political Institutions. I have since come to regret that decision. My next class was at 11:00, and it was an Ethics class. I saw our professor taping a note to the door that class was cancelled due to the tragedy, and I asked why it was so devastating that class would be cancelled. After all, that spring, class had not been cancelled after a six inch snowfall, so I could not fathom this garnering enough impact to cancel class. He informed me of the second tower being hit, in addition to the pentagon. That made it entirely different. Our country was under attack. By whom? Why? How? Yet most importantly, I rembered thinking - What did we do to piss someone off that much to want to cause such distruction? In the weeks to follow, I would learn more about the intervention of American policy in foreign lands, and I realized they had a point. It did NOT justify the action they took, yet I was able to sympathize with their frustration. I was not initially upset due to the tragedy and I often wonder why. My base reaction was one of concern, for I did not understand why this was happening. In all honesty, I was amazed that it had not happened sooner. It was a compliment to our intelligence gathering organizations that a similar attack had not yet occurred to our country, considering our vulnerability due to our pursuit of freedom. We made some quick adjustments, and we constantly undergoing change due to the events taht happened that day. Our sstruggle for freedom is not over and we have to make yet more changes aqnd sacrifices. May God have mercy upon us. 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 story188.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: The morning started off normal, phones ringing, printers printing-I remember talking with an employee at our Wytheville distribution center & he asked me if I had heard about the plane that had crashed into the WTC. At first I thought it had to be an accident, they happen everyday. Then alot of commotion started happening in our office & I heard of the 2nd plane. Being from Upstate New York, I called my mom,she works in a government building in NY so that scared me. While on the phone with her I found out about the Pentagon being hit. I thought to myself that this couldn't be happening. She had to get off the phone because she had to find out if any of her managers were on any of those flights. With alot of talk around our office I was really scared at this point, we had figured out they were hitting large&hurting many at a time. Working near a nuclear plant didn't help my fears at all. I can remember Sept 11th as though it happened yesterday and the indescribable lose I felt. The pain I felt for the people directly & indirectly involved. That day I was forever changed. I found myself obsessed with the internet that day, one of our managers had a tv in his office but there was still work to be done. Things slowed down here that day, and I was thankful for that. It made it alittle easier to keep up with what was going on. My boyfriend called and told me to come home, he was scared the nuclear plant might be next. I told him everything would be alright & was going to continue the day at work,knowing if I went home and could actually see on TV what was happening it would drive me crazy. And even though I stayed at work it did drive me crazy, after work I went to Walmart & bought a radio so I could listen to talk about it. I watched every television station that played non-stop coverage on it. And drove myself mad for the next month. I cried everyday, not for myself because I was scared but for the people who were lost & the loved ones who lost them. My family was so worried about me,they would call my little brother(who lives in North Carolina also)not me to find out if I was alright or if they had committed me yet(and that is no joke) anyway the events of that day changed me forever, I will never take life for granted again & think that nothing like that could happen to us. It's just a shame that such a disaster had to happen for everyone to reunite as one. To everyone and anyone who lost a loved one in the attacks, my heart is with you everyday and there is not a day that goes by that I don't think of September 11th and what was lost. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story10123.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 worked at 7 world trade center on the evening shift. 6:00pm til 1:00am..I was on vacation and on september 10 I got back to work..My day routine before going to work was very different on september 10 than any other time.... I usually get my music magazine and my minidisc player for the trip to the trade center ,which is a 45 min train ride from upper manhattan.But on that day I left it behind so I stepped out the door of my building and for some reason a thought came to my mind,that I felt that I wasnt going to work on september 11..So I get to the token booth and I asked the clerk for a $17.00 metro card but I changed my mind and asked for a $3.00 card so I went off to work. The time is 12:50 and Im walking out 7wtc so I walked up to the wtc and no matter how many years Ive worked there I was still amaze of the size of these buildings so I looked at them and walk away ,with a gut feeling that I was not coming to work tomorrow..... so now its 9,11 and im sleeping and I hear my cell phone ringing with numerous people calling me and asking me if I was ok,but I didnt know what was going on until I on NY1 thenthe rest is a painfull history,....... 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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. 2002-04-14 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 24.168.49.51 Annotation Annotations to this item. Premonitions/Coincidence/Fate WTC, pre-911 WTC, worked in (ever) NY: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 had just taken my children to school and had gone to my grandmothers house to visit. We had been watching television when this awful news came across. It was really hard to believe. I was worried but at the same time confusesd. I spent the rest of my day at the school where my children were, helping out. At least I was with them. A few weeks later I hear about the U.S. dropping food to those who may or may not had been involved in the attack on the U.S. and want to know why we allowed them to live here in the first place most of them for free. Maybe we the U.S.A. should let them fin for themselves because this is what they made us do, and here we are still doing it today. Are we going to let this continue until they get enough weapons to really wipe the Americans out? What do are children have to look forward to. Sincerely An American Parent 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 story5221.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 walking to the 6 train on 23rd Street that morning, like I do every weekday morning. The first plane had already hit and there was black smoke streaming across the sky to the East. At first I thought it was a brush fire in New Jersey, until I saw one of the towers on fire. I thought it was terrible and could not wait to get to work to get on cnn.com to find out what happened. When I got onto the train I knew something was wrong. Everyone was talking to each other. Now I don't know if your from Manhattan or not, but the people who are know what I?m talking about when I say that everyone talking to each other on the train in the morning, going to work is not usual. In fact it's kind of scary. I felt like everyone already knew each other. Of course by the time I was at my stop I had heard about a plane and people were already guessing about terrorism. When I got to work everyone was a mess, trying to find televisions or radios. A co worker and I went next door to a deli where they had a TV in back. As soon as we walked in the second plane hit. I remember everything stopping, no one said a word. People started crying when images of trapped workers in the towers falling to their deaths came on the screen. I stared at the television for what seemed like 4 or 5 days until I watched the North tower fall. I remember seeing the radio antenna shift to the side and I just stood up and said "no." I don't remember, and I still can't to this day if I said that out loud or not. Walking South down 2nd ave from 59th Street was a strange experience. Everyone was comatosed, just walking briskly like one of those old alien movies when they take over the minds of the townspeople, and make them all congregate in the middle of the night. At one point these 12 or 13 year old kids, obviously ignorant, immature and honestly, not so bright were making comments about World Trade Center Tours and making wise cracks. This next to people walking uptown covered in human and building remains. I am not a violent man by any means but I cracked and grabbed one of these kids by the upper arm sleeve and swung him around so he was facing me, standing a good 7 inches taller than him. I don't even think I said anything but his friend got the picture, apologized and shoved his friend away down a side street. By this time I was at around 30th Street and the number of chalky figures walking uptown was increasing per block. Each was surrounded by people asking questions, and trying to help. One business man was walking with his briefcase still in hand with the posture and casual demeanor someone would have on any other day but this one. Until he got closer and I saw his face. He was in a daze in total shock, just walking. I doubt he even knew where he was going. I wanted to help but did not know how. What could I say? After getting home, gluing the TV onto cnn and making sure I answered all the message boards my friends had created in lew of the cellular phone fiasco. I got onto my 25 story roof to try and get a better signal when I got a call from a friend in Jersey City on his roof. We watched the # 7 building come down together on the phone and tried to comfort each other. That night I walked to Union square with clothing and blankets and a hard hat I had acquired to donate to the rescue effort. There had to be 10,000 people there, all with candles and tears. It was very emotional and I don't know if I could have kept my sanity without 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 story1940.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: The time was roughly around 8:45am. I had been woken up by my father as it was the day I was due to ship out for boot camp in the United States Navy. I rolled around in bed for a few more minutes then made my way downstairs. My Mom and Dad said "Look whats goin on" then I turned my head and saw what I thought was the Air Traffic Control Tower at JFK on fire. I said "Is that JFK?" they said "No, its the Twin Towers, a plane crashed into one of them this morning." I replied "Is it bad weather or somethin?" "No sunny as can be" said my Dad. After he spoke those words I saw an object approaching the second tower and striking it. "Is that how it looked when it hit?" I asked, "No" said my mother "That just happened!" I will never forget the feeling in my gut at that moment. It is one that is indescribeable and I hope will never be repeated. As the day progressed I was still getting myself ready to get shipped out to Great Lakes for boot camp. It was when I was buying new shoes at the Rugged Warehouse in Annapolis that we heard of the plane hitting the pentagon. I thought to myself "This is serious....what is next?" We rushed home and when I got home my recruitter EM1 Bruce Piatek USN, was on the phone and said, "Mike, due to the events that have happened today, you wont be able to get out today". I said "I understand, just keep in touch." He replied "I will, expect to go out tomorrow." "Ok, I said" The day passed and the headlines came and the next day Sept. 12. I was dropped off at the recruitting station, and off to MEPS we went. Once there we continued to watch the news until they put us on a bus from Baltimore, MD to Chicago,IL when the country was in peril. The whole ride to boot camp I thought to myself "Im so proud to be going to serve my country when it needs me the most! I had never felt better, and Knowing the the fact that I would help get the bastards that did that to us. So There I was, me and 79 future sailors confused about the times, knowing we were the ones that would have to get the next job done! It was a special time at Great Lakes, we knew this was a new kind of war. But we were not afraid. Because we were all americans affected the same way that day. And it changed us all forever. For the Best. GO USA!!! Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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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: What Happened That Day I woke up around 6 a.m. It was just like any other morning. I didn?t have any bad dreams or premonitions. Mostly, from the moment my eyes opened, I was pre-occupied about the day and rest of the week ahead. I had three major video shoots that would each take several hours. "It?s going to be a looong week," I said to Dan with a sigh as I got ready. Hurriedly, I pulled on my long brown skirt and then a brown jacket. A button inexplicably bounced off and landed on the floor. Irritated, I tossed the jacket on my bed and put on a cream colored one instead. Outside the sun was shining and the air was warm; another beautiful day in a string of beautiful late summer days. My mind racing, I thought of everything I wanted to get done in the next 15 minutes before arriving at work: take money out of the ATM, check out a house someone had mentioned was for sale, and get a coffee. I had a book on my lap on how to be smart with money. I was going to try to read it at lunch to get strategies for our finances. Turning onto an unfamiliar side street, I scanned for this house someone had suggested Dan and I might want to buy. I couldn?t find it. Annoyed, I shoved the car in reverse and headed back to the main road. I?d have to look another time. At Dunkin? Donuts, the drive-thru line was long, as always. I decided to put it in park and read my book. Once I got my coffee, I proceeded to pull out of the parking lot and spill it on my hand. Frustration began to bubble again. I arrived at work at around 7:45 a.m. and started answering e-mails and editing a few projects I was working on. One was about the new artificial nails policy for health care workers. The day was off to an utterly and absolutely boring and inconsequential start. Then I got up to go to the bathroom. When I left the bathroom and walked towards Conference Room 504, which is just outside my cubicle, I heard the television on and could see people hanging around the doorway and inside. "What?s going on?" I asked Mark McCandlish, who works across the hall in Human Resources. "Two planes hit the World Trade Center," he told me. I didn?t completely absorb his words at first. My mind reached back and remembered that years ago a plane had hit the Empire State Building. Nothing too disastrous had happened. As I stood there watching the "Today" show, slowly it dawned on me that there were two holes, one in each tower, smoke and flames billowing out of both. One plane could be an accident. Two? How could that be? Then they showed the replay of the second plane hitting the tower. There were several different camera angles, and each one was terrifying. This absolute horror fluttered within me and gradually grew. My heart began palpitating. Sue went to call her sister who works in New York City. The rest of us stood there, unable to pull our eyes from the television. Sue came back, saying she couldn?t get through ? a message kept repeating that all the circuits were busy. At the bottom of the screen they had started running this ticker. "Reports of an explosion at the Pentagon," it read, and "One of the planes that hit World Trade Center identified as an American Airlines flight from Boston." Boston. Now we were really getting close to home. Jodi went to call her friend, an American Airlines flight attendant who flies out of Logan. The words on the ticker were becoming more frightening every time I looked. "The Pentagon is on fire" -- "Reports of an explosion at the State Department" -- "Capitol Building and White House evacuated." I wasn?t even listening to Katie Couric. I just watched. They cut to the President, at an elementary school in Florida, where he had been reading with children. Now, he seemed strangely out of place, standing there with children and teachers, while he made his first comments about the attack on America. NBC and the other stations had quickly decided that the morning?s events needed a name. At the bottom of the screen, above the ticker, we were suddenly "America Under Attack" or "America Under Siege." Everything seemed real but unreal. I was shaking uncontrollably yet also felt almost displaced from what was happening, as if I was watching myself react rather than truly reacting. I went back in the bathroom and just sat in a stall, shaking. "Please God please God please God," I kept praying. My thoughts couldn?t form any other prayer. I seemed to be frozen and stiff, and almost moving in slow motion. I went back to my desk for a moment and typed an e-mail to Dan. The television was still blaring. I couldn?t leave it for more than a moment. Now they were announcing that the Pentagon had been hit by a plane. The ticker said: "United Airlines says it is ?deeply concerned? about Flight 175 en route from Boston to LA." They announced the President had gotten on Air Force One and was flying ? somewhere. Marie headed to the phones to try to find news of her nephew, who works in the Pentagon. Sue finally got in touch with her sister in Manhattan, who said she could see the smoke from her office building. They had been told to leave the building and walk home. If I stood up, from my cubicle I could see the television in Conference Room 504. As I stood and stared with Elzbieta doing the same in the cubicle in front of me, we both witnessed the first tower collapse. There was no warning. It just crumbled like one of those buildings on a documentary about demolition. At that point, I really just felt like I was watching a movie. "Oh my God, think of all the rescuers in there," Elz said, but my mind didn?t grasp it quite yet. I still couldn?t believe it had just crumbled. There was smoke everywhere, but you could still see the other building. I remember thinking irrationally that if the other one would just stay up, this wouldn?t be so bad; we would have at least salvaged something, and hey, one tower was better than none. But in a matter of minutes the second building fell to the ground too. "Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God." That?s all we could say, our hands over our mouths. At that point, I felt as if nothing was impossible. Maybe these people, whoever they were, were going to blow up everything. Maybe the White House would be gone, and the Statue of Liberty, and the Golden Gate Bridge. Maybe this was the end of America. We switched the TV to CNN. The FAA had just suspended, for the first time ever, all air travel in the United States. There were still, however, 1,000 flights in the air that hadn?t been stopped in time. Were there terrorists on any flights? No one knew except the air traffic controllers, who were trying frantically to contact each plane. There was this feeling of grim expectancy just hanging in the air. Yet in the middle of it, several people said they were headed down to the cafeteria to get some food. I shook my head at the offer to come with them. Food was the farthest thing from my mind. I could barely swallow. More news from the ticker: "Disney World evacuated;" "Sears Tower in Chicago evacuated;" "Hijacked plane may be headed for White House;" "Air Force One arrives at undisclosed location." Everything was happening too fast. I felt as if my mind couldn?t keep up and was just limping along, processing what it could. Everyone brought up their food and sat in another conference room watching CNN on the big projector screen. No one really talked. The anchor announced that a plane had crashed in Pennsylvania. They still weren?t sure about the plane headed for the White House. So we just sit here and wait for it to happen, my mind screamed. About then Michael, my boss, came up and asked me to go over to the hospital. They were in Disaster Plan standby and he wanted me over there to get the latest news. Getting off the elevator, I saw the security guard sat not watching who came in the door but the news on a little black and white TV on his desk. As I walked through the doors I heard a big crash and jumped. It was just a truck down below near the building?s basement, unloading something. Outside the sun seemed unnaturally bright. The day suddenly hit me as too blue, too ordinary. Again I felt the sense of surreal. I looked up at the sky and somehow heard this immense and haunting silence at there being no planes anywhere. On the radio in the car, there was no music. Every single FM and AM station had switched to news, either the local DJs reporting or tying into a national feed. When I reached the hospital, I felt this strange sense of everyone trying to go about their business while something was very, very wrong. I passed empty conference rooms with TVs blaring the news. In one, a Food Services worker stood there, just staring at the screen. I headed up to the conference room just off the cafeteria where our "Command Center" was set up. There were three TVs on, turned to three different stations, a laptop computer, and scores of phones, most of which were silent. The hope was this: if there were thousands upon thousands of seriously injured people in New York, Baystate would be called to help. We could accept transfers by helicopter, or of patients from Connecticut hospitals to free their beds for New York patients. Many clinical employees were calling to volunteer their services. We took their names but learned slowly and painfully through the afternoon that our help was not needed. People in New York either got out safely, or just didn?t make it. There was other information to glean. We were in touch with the City of Springfield to find out about school closings and other canceled activities, as well as the state?s response to all of this. I kept calling back to the office, where they were quickly crafting e-mails to send out to employees. "Schools are not closing in Springfield, but extra curricular activities are canceled." "A prayer service will be held at 3 p.m." "The Blood Donor Center will stay open until 8 o?clock." Every once in a while, I?d look back at the television. There was smoke billowing out of New York City. Thousands of people, many covered in dust, were headed across a bridge, trying to get out. Some ran and some walked as if in a dream. I got a call to meet Mark Tolosky, the CEO, in the Emergency Department so he could do a TV interview. Both Channel 22 and 40 were already at the hospital. Back in the halls, I rushed around, still not really thinking about anything I was doing. Almost hysterically, I remembered that sometime in the afternoon, Jane Clark from the Red Cross was supposed to come over to review a video we had worked on. It was all about disaster relief. Somehow I had the feeling she wouldn?t be making it. Back in the Command Center someone was passing out cookies and soda. I took some and realized it was the first I?d eaten all day. My head was pounding. The chocolate chip cookie was burnt. For some reason, I became furious with this security guard who was in the room with us, watching the TV. "Whoever did this, we?re gonna kick their ass," he said, almost laughing. Why did some men have to respond like that? I thought. Why is there this need to act macho when really this is just awful, horrible, no matter whose "ass" we kick? Finally, the call came from my boss. I could go back to the office. Sometime around then, I seemed to zone out. I felt exhausted and drained. I don?t remember riding back in the car or going back to my desk. I think I watched more TV and sent more e-mails to Dan. I counted the minutes until I could leave. At 4:30 I got in my car and drove like a zombie the seven minutes to home. I noticed a letter in the mailbox. It was from Southwest Airlines, confirming my reservation for a flight to St. Louis on October 4. In the bedroom, staring at that envelope, I crumbled for the first time. My knees felt weak as I sank to the floor, weeping. "It?s awful, it?s just awful," I could only say over and over. After a few moments I turned on the TV. Just as with the radio, every station had abandoned regular programming. Even the Home Shopping Network had gone blank, with nothing but a message on the screen about the day?s events. VH-1 and MTV played national news. I think only Nickelodeon stayed with cartoons, for all the unsuspecting little ones out there. Watching made me start crying again. I picked up the phone and called my mom. "How can we fly on a plane now?" I burst out. "I can?t do it. I just can?t do it." She was crying too. We stayed there on the phone together, talking and crying and watching TV. Then I hung up and just lay there on the couch, watching. They showed video again and again of the plane hitting the building, then the buildings disintegrating. I don?t even know what I watched; I just lay there, staring. At 6 p.m. Dan came home. I still didn?t move. He came and sat next to me and both of us just watched as the sun went down. The President was back in Washington after flying to several secret locations across the U.S. For the only time that day, I felt overwhelming relief. All of these Democrats and Republicans were gathered for a press conference on the steps of the Capitol building, talking about how they were forgetting their differences to fight terrorism. At the conclusion someone started shakily singing "God Bless America," and then the rest joined in. I wanted to cry and laugh, it was all so bizarre. I got up finally and made a few sandwiches. It was dark now. Still we watched, but then suddenly the TV started acting squirrely and then the cable went out. There was nothing but snow, on the biggest news day ever. We decided to turn on the radio. I don?t even know what station. Late into the night, we sat, me on a chair and Dan on the couch, hanging on to every word. A reporter announced a truck-full of men had been arrested and were suspected of trying to bomb the George Washington Bridge. I curled into a ball, shivering. The night stretched on toward midnight. I was afraid to go to bed. I was afraid to leave the radio. At any moment, something might happen. I had to know. Finally, we could no longer keep our eyes open. We dragged ourselves into the bedroom and crawled under the covers. My mind kept working, seeing fire and planes, hearing the news anchors. I didn?t want to sleep but wanted desperately to sleep. I clutched Dan tightly, not wanting to feel alone. I don?t know if I prayed. I know I wanted to. But I have never felt so paralyzed. Outside the night was still summer. There were crickets but the skies were silent. There were people in houses who were going through all of this with me, but I didn?t think of them. It was just me and Dan and everyone at work and the Towers and the Pentagon and those planes. Over and over and over, in dreams that were barely dreams because I barely slept. That was my September 11, 2001. ? ? Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I am and always will be a New Yorker at heart. I grew up on Long Island and lived in Manhattan for 5 years and considered "the City" my home. New York has always had such an electrifying energy, it has such a strong spirit and I cherish my time there. I miss it terribly. I just moved with my husband, Erik, to Chicago and we were getting settled in our new place on September 1. I was working with him as a trader and Sept 11 was my first day. Erik, noticed the markets were just plunging and kept on saying "something is wrong, something horrible just happened." This was before the news hit, before everything unfolded in front of our eyes. I and others in the office reassured him that things were ok, maybe a company warned. Then, we saw the first crash. We were all thinking, how could this happen, how can this be an accident? Then, the second crash and the newscaster said, "America, we are under attack, we are at War." I just started crying uncontrollably and kept thinking how can something like this happen. I was also praying for all those people in the twin towers, in the area as well as those in the Pentagon. I didn't know anyone in the buildings but my brother lost a friend. He had a 6 month old and a 2 year old and I met this man, a young guy in his 30's a few years ago. My heart goes out to him and to the families of those who perished. I have come across a lot of situations where peoples luck changed their lives. My friend was supposed to be in the Trade Center the day it happened but he had to cancel his appointment with a client because he had a doctor's appointment in Midtown. My old roomie was givend 2 offers at firms: one in the trade center but she chose the latter. My mom's assistant teacher's sister was in the Trade Center but she was on the 50th floor in the 2nd building and was quite lucky because she survived. When it happened, I wanted to be in New York, to help, to do something. My family all donated blood and went to the Javitts Center to help make sandwiches for the rescue mission. I felt so foreign in Chicago because my heart will always be in New York. This year, I was in a 4th grade classroom in Chicago working as a teacher's assistant. I was extremely emotional and found that there were a few people in this school were indifferent. It is quite sad but since this wasn't there home I can see how it didn't truly impact them. Had it been their city under siege, maybe they would've been a bit more compassionate. The teacher I worked with discussed it in class and the principal had all go outside and say the pledge which was nice. 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 story6139.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: Like the home page says, we are all a part of this time in history and here's my small part from the other side of the US. I had gotten up late on my way to the second day of a new job and forgot to turn on the radio. Within five seconds after doing so, my favorite and most humorous radio personality Jamie White announces that a second plane has hit the second tower of the World Trade Center - I was thinking that she's joked about some weird stuff in the past - but this isn't even funny. I realized when I returned my "full" attention to the road everyone had immediatlely slowed down - almost to a complete stop on the freeway. How could this be, I thought. I called my best friend in Burbank who anxiously answered the phone and angrily asked why I hadn't been picking up my cellular phone. As it all began to settle in and I heard that the tower's began to collasped you wanted to reach out and hug someone, be near someone - not in your car alone. By the time I reached my new office, I found out that one person had family members that were missing (they were eventually located two days later - my silent prayers answered for people I didn't even know). An hour later the building received a threat that a plane was headed directly towards us because of broker type company being located in the building - everyone was leaving the building....turned out to be a hoax by a very sick individual that was never found. When leaving that evening, I drove home numb - not wanting to be alone, but not knowing who to call as all my family is out of state. I eventually ended up home to begin the many night vigil of watching the news, praying for people to be found, praying for the people that had died and prayed for the families that were left behind. I spoke with my mother often - somehow needing reassurance that she were alive and I could get to her even though I know she was no where near the affected cities. It than dawned on me one day. I had done that exact flight as the terrorists from Portland, Maine to Boston, Massachusetts heading on to Los Angeles just back in May, 2001. Thank God, my sister graduated on time from nursing school. It took until the film taped by the two europeon brothers, was on television for me to sit and sob out of grief for our country. Up until then, I had been numbed, unable to grieve. I sat that night sobbing, grieving that I wasn't there to help, grieving for the people that died that I didn't know, grieving for the people that will never forget the horrors they say that day, and grieving that people that could do such a horrible thing live in our world. The impact of September 11, 2001 has made me take more time to be friendly and patient to people I don't know, take more time before I hit the horn to let the person in front of me know I'm waiting, take more time to let someone with less groceries or crying kids to go ahead of me in line, etc. I now take more time for myself - I went away on vacation this year with just me. I left the cellular phone (which has played "New York New York" since my brother moved there in February this year)and pager back where it belonged - at home. I visited another country and came home even more thankful for what I have. I started volunteering my time at a church that provides a lunch for the homeless and downtroddened on Saturdays - not just feeding, but hugging them, getting to know them by name - who knows, people don't set out in life to be homeless, something happened to them along the way. It may not have been as nationally devestating as 9/11 but it was just as devastating to them. Unlike those who perished in the Towers, or at the Pentagon or in the planes, they are still alive and need us - so here is where I put my energy and feel a bit better every Saturday about the world. Thank you for hearing my story. 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 story1384.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-08-21 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 4.63.156.19 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 woke up expecting to have a very good day, well i did until about 9:55 am on that tuesday morning. I was in the 8th grade and i didn't even realize how big the towers were until they fell. I was astonished until it sunk in and i realized that people were in that massive building when it fell. I just want to let you all know that don't take anything or any one forgranted, they could be gone within seconds." Thank you+ and i am sooooo proud of all the rescuers and others who risk there lives every day. also to the president and the soldiers. 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 story9055.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2003-02-13 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 63.175.19.30 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: its odd i just left the t.v stories and found how sad i was to hear all this and it brought it all back as fresh as it could be. i was at work the day of september 11th i remember it was just another day i work at an aircraft defense company we build sections for the c17 airlifter. it came over the radio some one said they just it the world trade center then again then the pentagon. we were so scared for ourselves for the people going thru it we just stopped dead in our tracks at work no one could work some people left to go home we called our children a man i work with his daughter was at the pentagon when it was hit. when we came home that day my family we prayed . for the nation for the people and the families who died. i walked outside and looked at the sky it was so clear but at the same time it was different life was different my heart tonight one year later feels just the same i am proud to be an american i love god and my country to all god speed. 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 story5205.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 66.140.44.234 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: On the day of September 11,2001 I was on my block with my friends and my cousin called me and told me to put my TV on the news because a plane had crash in one of the Twin Towers. As I turned my TV on I saw the building on fire and I hoped that none of my family was in there because I would have been very hurt. As the day went by I was seeing the police and ambulances were going back and forth. It was a sad day for the people of New York. I was very sorry for the people that lost a love one. But people should not make that affect there every day life. By Tony Milwood 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 story2068.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-10 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 209.10.31.34