566 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 am from New York, Long Island originally. I remember when I was little my dad took my brother and I to the WTC and we had so much fun. Looking down upon the city of New York, it blew me away. I was at school when it happen. No one told us what happened, in fact I didnt know anything happened until I got home. My mom's best friend's brother Michael Boyle was a firefighter and died. My cousin's uncle died in the towers. It was such a terrible tragedy that affected so many people from so many places. I wish, like so many others, that this never happened. But that isn't going to help. Nothing can. We just have to stand together and help each other and show the terrorists that they cant break America. It's called United We Stand. 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 story11250.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: It was just a regular day like any other. My alarm went off and I really didn't want to get up and go to work. I did though. I stumbled to the bathroom, showered, got dressed, made my lunch and went. I work at Wal-Mart Supercenter in Rome, New York. I work in Jewelry, but at the time I was a cashier. I had to be to work at 8:00am. I usually get there 2 or 3 minutes before I have to punch in. I got on my register still yawning and still wishing that I was in bed sleeping. I had a few customers, not too busy at that time of morning during the week. A guy came up to my line in such a rush. He was fumbling around and mumbling and he looked really nervous and shook up. He asked me to kindly cash him out as fast as I could. I said okay and cashed him out very quickly. I must have had a weird look on my face because he asked me if I heard what had happened. I said no and informed him that I had just gotten to work. He then told me how a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I was very shocked and puzzled and angry. Shocked because how could a plane not see the Trade Center? Puzzled because it didn't make any sense, and angry because I thought this guy must have been joking. Nope, about 5 minutes after I finished with him, all of our tv's turned on to the news channel. I seen the Trade Center on fire, and I was suddenly very confused. What was going on? How did this happen? I'm only 20 years old, so I've never expierienced a war. I only know what I learned in school. Customers and assocoiates in the store were all focused on the tv's. No one said a word. Just shook their heads in silence and shed a tear. When someone finally explained to me that it was terrorists that did this I didn't know what to say or do.I wanted to call my uncle Howard who's in the Navy and works in D.C. I wanted to go home and see my mom and have her tell me that it would be okay.I wanted to call my dad that lives in Texas who I haven't heard from in years. I wanted to get back into bed and hear the annoying sound of my alarm waking me up from a nightmare.Why? Why would anyone do this to us? To all of those innocent people and their families? Why? What did we do that was so worng to have this happen? The rest of the day at work was sad and really slow. Everyone was upset and worrying about relatives that were flying or lived in New York or D.C. No one could believe what happened. When I finally got out of work and into my car every station was talk. Talking about what was going on and the latest news. I got home and hugged my mom and just starting crying. I cried for myself because I was worried. I laid in my room with my boyfriend watching the news. I cried again, but this time it was for all those innocent people. It was a very horrific tragedy. The next day I went out and bought as many flags as I could. I bought red, white and blue candles. On my way home that night I passed by the Fort(Fort Stanwix). I couldn't believe how many people were standing around with lighted candles.It was sad and happy at the same time. It gave me chills to see everyone together. I got home and lit my candles and stood on my front porch with my flag in my handed and prayed. I felt so helpless because there was not much else that I could do. On November 10th I went with my mom on her yearly bus trip to NYC. The company that she works for goes every year around the same time. It was my very first year that I got to go. Our first stop when we got there was to take the subway down to Ground Zero. When we arrived there it was 10 times worse than what it looked like on tv. There was a horrible smell in the air, so horrible I can't even explain how bad it was. There was also a lot of people. We got as close as we could. I stood up on a fence to get a better look. I seen guys still hosing it down and workers trying to get it cleaned up. I didn't really want to go down there, but I did. I felt that it was my way of paying my respects. I was very scared. I don't think that there has ever been a time when I felt the way I did that September 11th. And I think that everyone else in this country can say the same. I just want to say that even though this was the most terrible day it brought us all together and showed everyone how strong we are. My prayers go out to everyone on those planes and in those buldings. My deepest prayers go out to all of the people who did this to us because their going to need it the most. May they suffer for a very, very long time. GOD BLESS THE USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story7960.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 11th didn't really directly affect me, because I live 4 hours north of the attacks and I have no family near the area of the attacks. However, I was deeply sadened by what was going on. My heart goes out to those who lost loved ones in the attacks. 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 story4371.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I am a fourth grade teacher in Bloomfield, NJ. At around 9:30, my principal came and called me to the hall to tell me and a few of my colleagues that a plane had struck one of the Twin Towers, and that it was believed to be an act of terrorism. We were instructed not to tell the students anything at that time until further notice. I instantly thought of my 20 year old daughter. I had dropped her off, as I did every morning, at the bus stop for her bus to work in midtown Manhattan. I knew that my daughter was not in the area of the Twin Towers, but no one knew at that time if the worst was over. Instantly, I went to my computer in the classroom and e-mailed my husband, asking him to contact my daughter via cell phone to tell her to come right home. By the time he and she connected, the second Twin Tower was hit, the Pentagon was hit and the plane in Pennsylvania went down. Shortly after, the Towers collapsed and all access to NYC via tunnels and bridges were closed for security purposes. My daughter was scared, because even though she had friends to stay with, she did not want to stay in NYC. After my husband's initial contact with her, we lost touch with her until 3:30 that afternoon, when, just by the grace of God, I contacted her by cell phone. I relayed my thoughts asking her to consider staying the night with a friend uptown...she was however adamant about coming home that night. Not until 8:15 that night did we hear from her again, saying that she was on a train coming into Newark, and could we please come to get her? We were relieved to hear her voice, and that she was coming home. She had walked to Penn Station in NYC where the Port Authority police were channeling people free of charge to NJ on the path trains. Later that night, our daughter relayed the horrors of the day from someone in a midtown restaurant, seeing the faces of victims walking uptown covered in soot, dust and ashes. Never had she seen NY look so quiet and desolate and eerie. We were among the fortunate ones who did not lose our daughter...many were not so lucky. As days became weeks, we learned of others in our classes and colleagues' families and coworkers who were not as fortunate as we were that day. But just as easily as the planes hit the Towers, they could have hit midtown. We continue to pray for the victims and their families. September 11 is a day we will never forget. 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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 livng and working in NYC on September 11. My story is not particulalrly interesting or dramatic, but I think its typical of what New Yorkers experienced on that day. At 8:45 am that day, I was voting in the NYC primary election at my polling station, an elemantary school on 82nd street between 1st and 2nd. After that, I got on the downtown Second Avenue bus on the way to my job as an attorney at law firm with an office on 59th and Lexington. On the to work, the driver announced that the bus would terminate at 14th street because of disaster downtown. I recalled that I had seen two fire trucks moving quickly down Second Avenue when I was wating for the bus. I didn't think much of it. My stop was well before 14th Street. As I got off the bus, a young man (or younger than me; he looked to be about 20 and I was then 31) told me that a plane had crashed into the WTC. I noticed that he had walk man and assumed he heard it on the radio. Puzzlingly, he said, "I'm going down there to check it out." I didn't (and still don't) understand the need to gawk. As I walked to the two or three avenues to my office building, I finally noticed the brilliant blue sky that day. It was a sight to behold. There was not a cloud in the sky. It was a blue like the UNC Tar Heals (at team I've always hated because I went to UVA), wear on their road baketball jerseys. It was a magnificent. I stopped to look at it and after a few moments I caught myself wasting time. I was late for work. When I got my office building, I saw two of the secretaries having a smoke break. I asked them if they had heard the news, and one of them, a gruff but sort of lovable woman named Paula said, "two of them crashed into the Trade Center." When I walked into the office, I saw the cute, young receptionist (who insisted that she was really a singer) crying. She had just started at my firm after temping at an office in the WTC. She was hysterical. I told her that a plane once crashed into the Empire State Building and the only thing that was really damaged was the plane. I told her not to worry. Obviously, I've never been so wrong. I went down the hall and down the flight of stairs to my office. Its maybe a hundred paces, but my walk was interrupted four or five different colleages with the latest reports. A car bomb exploded outside the state department, another plan was seen circling Washington, DC, five more planes are off course and unaccounted for. I was curious to see the WTC. I tried to get on the Internet, but the obvious news cites were jammed. No access to CNN, MSNBC, NYT, etc. Then I remembered that I had a New Mexico paper on my favorites list. A few weeks earlier I had bookmarked the site. It was part of a revery of quitting my job and moving west. I clicked on the site and it worked. I guess the west was still asleep. I could not believe it. It was true. Seeing it made it seem less true. Odd, but that's how I felt. The fire ball in the picture looked so extreme that I had a hard time believing it. I wasn't scared. I was too stunned to be scared. I didn't know what to do. I had a brief due later that week and I started to work on it. Days later, I would look back on that decision to start my job that day and wonder. What if I had been in the second building to be hit and been told to stay at my desk. I was something of a workaholic then. I probably would have stayed and worked. Its a scarey thought and one that has not been far from my mind since then. After about fifteen minutes of working, I realized that I should call my mother. She is a world class worrier and I figured she would be scared. I decided to call my father first and make sure he was ok. I wasn't really worried about him. His office was on 44th Street near Grand Central and he rarely had a reason to go downtown. Before I made the call, my dad called me. I don't know how I missed the call, but he was routed to voice mail. His message said that he couldn't get through to my mom, but knew she would be worried. He called me to tell me he was ok. He was at a seminar at the Sheraton in mid-town and planned to finish the class (which was scheduled for all day). I called my mother at her job and told her I was ok. She had access to a television at work and told me it was incredible. I told her about my message from Dad. I insisted that everything would be ok. I still believed it. After the call, I decided to turn on the radio in my office. It was a clunky clock radio that I had put in my office the previous October to listen to the baseball playoffs when I worked at night. I heard the newscaster describe the collapse of the first tower to fall. What I remember most is that he said, at first, that the front of the top of the building was falling. For a few moments I was oddly relieved that whatever bad was going to happen, this was it and it wasn't so bad. The moment passed and I had never been more wrong. My second extreme miscalculation of the magnitude of the day's events left me numb. The whole building had collapsed. I called my best friend David. He lived in Richmond and I was curious to see if people in other parts of the country understood what was going on. David is a very calm guy, the kind of guy who isn't rattled in a stressful situation and never gets too animated. He described the collapse of first tower to me. He wasn't animated. He just had lots of details in a way that was uncharacteristic of him. To anyone else, he would have seemed calm. But I know this guy very well. The level of detail and the desire to keep repeating the story put me off. I told him I had to go. As I hung up the phone, a few of my co-workers said they were going to look for a TV to see what was happenning. I cannot really describe the feeling of being away from a TV for most of that morning. I felt sort of lost without connection to the world. We walked out of the builing, about five of us. I honestly cannot tell you who they were. I was sort of numb. We didn't know where to go. Someone suggested the TV's outside the CBS studio on 59th and 5th. There's no sound there so we panned that idea. We wound up at the dive bar called the Subway Inn on the corner of 60th and Lexington. Its a bar that is often referred to as a whole. But it was open and a crowd was milling inside. From there, I watched the second building collapse. I realized that the day was over. I've never felt that alone before in my life. There I was, in the middele of a bar with strangers, experiencing this bizarre day. I was unhappy with my career, unsatisfied with my love life, and tired of waiting for something to happen to make my life better. I'd been feeling that way for weeks and after those fleeting moments at the Subway Inn, I didn't address those issues fully in my mind for close to another year. After the second building collapsed, I made eye contact with my colleagues and nodded that I was headed back to the office. Its about a two mimute walk and my mind turned to quickly finishing my brief and leaving early. When I got back to the office, I was stopped by several people with various stories to tell. I guy in the mailroom was headed downtown to look for his mother. The receptionist was able to reach her friends at her old job. Another plane had crashed in Pennsylvania. By this point, time had stopped having meaning. I usually don't wear a watch because I just sort of know the time. A good friend calls me the Rainman of Time. At some point, before noon I think, I was told by someone that our office was closing. I walked around for a while, offerred colleagues the use of my apartment, and finally decided to leave. As I gathered the computer files, papers, and other materials necessary for the completion of my brief at home, a secretary in my office came in my office. She was something of the office lune. She was a busy body and often inflcted colleagues with too much information about her personal life (usually about how broke she was). She was in a panic because she needed to pick up her son at school and the subways were not running, and she had no money. I gave her all of the money in my wallet. 80 bucks. I didn't think much of it at the time. She later told me it was the kindest thing anyone had ever done for her. Before I left, I left a voicemail for my father at his job. I told him my address and that I was going to be there. I suggested he meet me there b/c I had heard that the trains were not running to NJ where he lives with my mother. As I left the office, my mind went blank. I walked along the Avenues to my apartment on the Upper East Side. I was struck by how quiet everything was. People were calmly heading north. I saw long lines at payphones, but no one was arguing. People were talkative, even jovial. There was a spirit of comadarderie. I remember thinking that this is what I've always liked avout being a New Yorker. We're a little gruff, but we're a friendly and kind group. I looked south and saw that the line of people seemed to go on forever. For the first time I noticed the smoke rising from Downtown. I wondered if the smoke had been visible before the buildings collapsed or when I was in line waiting for the bus. I don't remember much else about the walk. I stopped off at a pizza place and bought some food. I thought I might be entertaining my father. Before I made the long climb up the four flights of stairs to my five story walk up, I bought some bottled water. It was a nod to the thought that my water might somehow stop flowing from the taps. I remember thinking that if the water goes, my problems would be so bad that water would be the least of my worries. For the rest of the day I just waited. My father never arrived. My mother kept calling me (somehow she could call me at will, but I could not call her) to ask if I had heard from him. The previous August, my father had had angioplasty. Its a routine surgery if its not your Dad (or you). My mother fretted (in a a way only a Jewish mother with too much time on her hands can do) that he must have had a heart attack. I told her not to worry. Logically I knew that my father was almost certainly safe and sound, but on that day, I no longer trusted my own sense of logic. As the hours passed, I cleaned my apartment in anticipation of my father's arrival. I spoke on the phone to the friends I could get in touch with and generally wondered what the hell was next. I followed President Bush's quixotic dance around the country and thought to myself how the heck is this man going to respond. I was and am a fiercely partisan Democrat and my fears that he was unqualified only exaserbated my own sense that the world was spinning out of control. As the day wore on, I started to worry about my father. It seemed like the kind of thing that might happen. He was then 67 and did have a heart condition. It was awfully hot and sunny that day and my apartment was forty blocks and across town from his seminar. I sat in front of my window overlooking 1st Avenue (between 82 and 83) and watched the endless stream of people heading north. All were calm and dotted among the throngs were a few covered in ash. My dad finally turned up at my parents house around 5:30. My mother called me. He had headed to Penn Station when his class ended (it was not canclled or cut short) and caught a train with no problem. Apparently, the trains were running. I decided that I had been freed from my apartment and started milloing about my neighborhood. tried to give blood, but was turnded away. I met a friend for dinner and watched Bush's speach. I was pleased that everyone in a crowded restarant stopped to listen. I don't remember anything in that spech, but I do remember that everyone seemed calmed by it. I was pleased that the leader of our country was not hiding in a bunker somewhere. He was at the seat of government doing the people's business. This was as it should be I thought. I never got over my sense that he was not ready for the job. (I should note that I thought then, now and in between that the attack and quasi occupation of Afganistan as Bush directed it was exactly the right response). Over the next few days, I fielded phone calls from old friends checkin on my status, dressed down a partner in my office who didn't seem to get that the subways had not been closed just to irritatate him, shrugged when a collague told me that another colleague lost several friends, got really drunk on the Thursday after, and finally finished my brief. An adversary who was usually uncooperative consented to an adjournment of the due date and I got it done (albeit without the use of the internet based resources which were no longer working -- and would not return foro another month or so). I don't remember much about the days after. I seem to recall that there was some sort of wind shift on the Wednesday after and the resulting smell of smoke in my apartment caused me to call a friend who lived near the UN to see if there had been another incident. As the days went by, I decided to switch jobs. I started the new gig on November 14th. I lasted all of seven momths. I thought that switching jobs would solve all of the problems that existed in my life before September 11. It didn't. Instead it made it worse. I went to my ten year college in reunion June and realized that major changes were needed. I need to reasssess a stressful life and find a awy to live with a little time to appreciate a beautiful sky. A friend told me she was moving to Chapel Hill, NC to start her life anew (and enroll in graduate school). I decided, largely on the spur of the moment to join her. Left New York on July 31, 2002. So, here I am, in the midst of all of this Carolina blue. I still cannot look at a cloudless sky and not think of that day. I am not afraid of another attack (although I recognize that another attack is inevitble). But, my life was changed. It took another eight or none months, but I now know that life isn't about getting the next brief done. It has to be about something more. I probably would have figured this out without 9/11, but livign throught that day helped me get to where I am now. 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 story1264.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: When i woke up that morning my dad was on the phone and watching CNN. I was telling him goodbye because i was leaving for school, but it seemed like he didn't hear me. The bus ride was the same except for some 6th graders who had a better understanding of what happened. When i got to school, all the teachers had the news on in their rooms. We watched it for the first half hour of school, then she explained to us what happened. even though i was only 9, i felt scared because i have a lot of family in New York City, and i had just lost my mother less that 2 months before. We never really did get to classwork that day. My friends and I talk about 9/11 some of them almost seem racist to anybody from the middle east, but we know they're not bad people, and we're not perfect either. 9/11 changed the world and now i'm old enough to realize 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 story20837.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: Where was I on September 11th? Unknown to me that morning, for the last time I would be able to step on the plane with minutes to spare. I settled in aboard the 6:00am American Airline flight from Minneapolis to Dallas (and ultimately on to Houston). I had taken this flight numerous times over the last year. My children had moved with their mother back to Minnesota, and I had taken on the traveler role. Once a month, for five days with the return flight out of Minneapolis on a Tuesday. The last year …….so much had happened. The falling apart of a marriage, the separation, My wife taking the children back to Minnesota, the divorce, my mothers cancer, the pressures of work. Each day before September 11th was a reminder of what a challenge life had turned out to be for me. Falling asleep, I began the pattern that I knew so well. As I seasoned traveler I had become savvy in the airports, knew my way around delays, and could fall asleep in a heartbeat once sat. As we landed in Dallas, I began to make my way towards my connecting flight on the next concourse. I noted a few people gathered around a television, and approached. The pictures were unclear, the sound was down. My first thought was What building is on fire in Downtown Dallas? Reflecting back on the next few hours is still a bit of a blur for me. So much happening, incomplete information coming to me as I continued to push on towards my gate. I actually still felt like I was going to be flying on to Houston. The cell phone began ringing with the many family and friends that knew I was flying. I settled into a seat in front of my gate and watched as the Pentagon was hit, the towers collapsed, and the airports were shut down. A friend in Dallas was able to help me sift through the mountain of luggage, get out of the airport, and get me one of the last rental cars in Dallas. After contacting my boss, he had let me know that he wanted me to get down to Houston; Get to Houston-you are supposed to work tonight. That pressure, the unknown of what was happening with the attacks, the massive weight of being away from the children again, stayed with me as I pressed on towards Houston. I decided to drive with the radio off, so that I could absorb what was occurring. Making it into town, into the restaurant, and then home sealed what was working in me. I cannot fathom the sadness of the many that lost loved ones that day, suddenly, unknowingly, so violent. I do not know if I ever will be able to. For Me, September 11th crystallized what I knew I had to do. Within 6 months, I had left my job of 10+ years & relocated back Minneapolis to be with my children. I also had the opportunity to be together with my family as my mother passed. September 11th reminded me how much I love those around me, and that I had the energy, power and will to show them that. I continue to feel that as I make further steps forward in life. I look forward to the time I share with my children and loved ones, and bless the time that is shared with them. God Bless 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 story20775.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I am a School Food Service Manager. I was sitting at my desk doing some paperwork. I didn't have the radio on a station that was a news station. I was listening to music, when one of my employee's came in my office and said turn the radio to the news station, because a plane just crashed into the World Trade Center. I turned on WINS news and heard the same thing. All day we listened while we worked, because the New York City children depend on us to feed them. It was torture for me to not see what had actually taken place. We had co-workers who had family members who worked down there, who they couldn't reach due to phone service being out. People wanted to just leave and be with their family, but they knew we had a job to do. We where told that we had to stay and feed and look after the children who may have parents who wouldn't copme home. I am a parent of one, but on that day I felt like I was a parent to any child who would be in that situation. It was one of the sadest days of my life. It was compaired to the passing of my father, even though I didn't know anyone who perished. I cried like a bay when I got home and saw the planes hit and the towers come down. 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 story4905.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: Of all the days I could have picked to begin my one-year study abroad term in Europe, I managed to pick perhaps the strangest day in my lifetime: September 11th, 2001. As an educational experience that I had been planning for several years, I arrived with a number of uncertainties in mind. I felt very small and weak as an individual so far away from home, so distant from anyone that I knew. Little did I know, the nervousness surrounding my arrival abroad would soon fade among the awful images of the frantic situation in New York and the devastating headlines. Now just hours after my arrival in Switzerland, I was like any jet-lagged person. It was a beautiful afternoon, but I certainly didn't have the energy to do any exploring. I had lugged my year's worth of luggage to the hostel, and I had no desire to go any further. While I was waiting for my room to become available, I figured I could kill some time sitting in the lobby. Little did I know, I had chosen what would soon become a theatre for the tradgic events. The first five minutes or so that I saw the images on the hostel's television, I had nothing to say. It truly was difficult to digest what was actually happening. After all, I was badly jet-lagged and still a bit caught up with analyzing where I was in my own life. The next five minutes I started to realize how closely connected I was with these events....I flew from Dulles airport one day earlier than the attacks. I had been at both the Pentagon and the World Trade Center several weeks earlier. My father had worked at the Pentagon but had luckily retired a couple years earlier. Several of my close neighbors still work in the Pentagon. The next five minutes was dominated by a sense of disbelief. How could this be? How could I have picked such a strange day to arrive in Switzerland? Is there any way this could just be a bad dream? As time continued I became really sad and for a variety of reasons. First and foremost I was sad that anyone could ever be convinced that this type of action would advance their cause. I continue to be haunted by very thought of being one of the people on those planes. I was deeply saddened by the thousands of people in the World Trade Center that lost their lives as nothing more than participants in a system that millions of people live within each day. As an American surrounded by mostly non-Americans, I felt a genuine sense of sympathy from almost everyone in my presense both that day and in the weeks and months following. The only exception was actually a Canadian who made what I felt was a truly inappropriate remark on the day of the attacks, basically suggesting that this sort of event was something that the US brings upon itself. Even if that was someone's opinion, September 11th wasn't the time to express it. I never forgave him for that. Many conversations and months later, I'm still very saddened by the events of the 11th. I continue to feel that the average person fails to see the strength of the economic connections between advanced nations. While I am a rather strong critic of some aspects of American culture, I feel strongly that the government and the system of markets that it backs is made of people who do care about solving international problems. As pointed out in a recent edition of the Economist, poverty is being reduced at a faster rate than at any point in history. Advanced nations have a responsibility to work harder to solve international problems like poverty, but the type of mindset that lies behind terrorists should not be underestimated. The US is right to react with a thorough military response and as superpower, should continue to lead in this fight with whatever means available...intelligence, military, security measures, foreign policy, etc. There's work to be done on all levels. 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 story47.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: On that day I can remember taking my kids to school & daycare like I normally did and then coming home to work as I work out of my house. It seemed to be a typical day as I picked up the phone and started to make calls. I called my other office to see what was happenening and I remember the voice on the other end of the phone saying that I wouldn't believe what was happening turn on your TV. I did just that and sat there stunned for quite a while in disbelief. Later in the day I began to make more calls and began to find out what was happening w/the gas prices in the midwest, and how nobody wanted to take any loads from me as they were scared about what was happening w/the fuel and the country. So, during lunch time I ran out and fueled up my vehicle because I knew that the fuel scare was out there and it was coming our way. After picking up my children, I had to run to the grocery store. The gas station at the store had a line up of cars that was unbelievable. My son asked many questions why?? That night after speaking w/our children we let them see a little of the news so that they could try to understand what was happening. Later on that night, my son(3yrs) took all his hotwheels and lined them along the back of the couch in a perfect line. When asked why he did that, he said "Mommy, it is my gas line!!" Then I looked at my daughter (7 yrs) and she had taken a sticky note off of my desk and had drawn a picture of a building with an airplane hitting it with the date and had stuck it to our refrigerator. I couldn't believe how much of an impact it had on these children and how much they absorbed of what was going on. It brought tears to my eyes and just made me want to hold on them tighter. I feel for all the people directly affected by this tragedy. 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 story3619.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: Three of us had flown into Indianapolis the evening of Sept 10 to install some software and train the software users at a human service agency. The next morning I was shaving and had the TV in the motel on to listen to the news. I stuck my head out of the bathroom to see the picture when the anchor said that a small plane had run into the World Trade Center. There was too much smoke for a "small plane" to have hit the building. Just as I was about to go back to shaving the second plane hit the other tower. As I looked at the images of all the pieces of paper fluttering down I thought, "There goes a lot of pension fund records". And then I was struck with the brilliance of the method: they used our planes to destroy our buildings. Almost immediately afterwards I felt a deep sadness for all the families and started praying for them to be comforted. Such a whirlwind of thoughts and emotions. I knew that life for all of us on the planet had just changed. Those events in NYC marked a line in history: there was before 9/11 and afterwards. 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 story10331.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 school when The first Twin Tower got hit by a plane. I just got in the classroom and i started putting my books away. All of a sudden my teacher came in the classroom and told all the students what happened and broke down and started to cry. when I got home school I found out that both buildings were hit and so was the Pentagon. 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: Kenneth Glenn Jr. History 103 May 8, 2002 September 11, 2001 On September the 11th our country faced a great tragedy. We lost people, buildings, the stock market crashed, majority of our citizens lost their work place, and most of all we lost the pride of America. This day couldn?t have been planned any better. It caught America when we least expected it and caused a lot of people to think what was going to happen next. People were scared, crying, praying, wondering about their love ones, and people were shocked and confused about what just happened. This day will always be remembered as THE DAY THAT SILENCED AMERICA. My reactions on September the 11th were a fear about what was going to happen next, I was confused, lost, speechless, and I felt sorry for the people who lost their love ones. I was real fortunate not to have any of my family or friends involved in any of the attacks but my heart and prayers goes out to the families who lost their friends or family or who haven?t heard anything yet about their love one. It?s amazing how we all have different views about that day. What I mean is that you have some people who wanted to start a war with Bin Laden and others who thought violence wasn?t the key to the solution. I favored both sides. A part of me wanted to attack back and another part of me knew violence never solves anything. So I believed what ever is meant to be or meant to happen will happen, no matter what. I just pray that they catch Bin Laden and end the war at hand. I believe America is a strong nation and it will never give up or accept defeat. After the attacks on America that day I really admired the work of our firefighters, police officers, rescue workers, and soldiers. They put their lives on the line to save the people involved in the attacks. I don?t know about you but that takes a lot of guts to enter a building, that you know that you might not make it out alive and for that they have all of my love support, generosity, and prayers with them. I pray that the ones who were lost in the collapsing buildings, families know how much I appreciate their love ones and how I pray for you and your family to be happy and once again start to live your lives. I know that?s easier said than done but I pray that you can. I believe your love one is I a safer and more peaceful place. I also like how America as a whole came together after the attacks. People became closer to each other, families spent more time with one another, people let their grudges go that they had with one another, and people started living for today and not tomorrow. Citizens of America started to show their patriotic side by wearing the colors of the flag, having the flag or stickers attached to their cars, and most of all having peace with each other. America is a nation that will never die or give up and for that fact, I? am proud to be an American citizen. It feels good to say in May that America has rebounded from the attacks and is getting stronger each day. I just pray America will reign tall once 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 story538.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 an 8th grader when it happened. Since it was my birthday, I really didn't care about anything except to have the best day of my life. But when I stepped into Pre-Algebra that morning, all I heard from other kids was, "Did you hear what happened?", or "Wow, I can't believe it..." I really had no clue what was going on, so our teacher turned the television on after lessons had ended, and there it was: destruction. In our history class, all we did was watch the television for upcoming news. I can now say that my birthday was more interesting than I had planned it to be. 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 story10637.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 bed on the west coast when my phone rang sometime before 6 am. I heard my husband answer it and then I started to worry. No one would call us at that hour. Jonathan yells for me to come to the phone and as i reach for it he runs to turn on the tv. As i place the earpiece i hear my mother crying "oh my God, all those people. I sat and watched on TV. I grew up in NY and my mother had worked in the trade center for years. 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 was sitting in my car in front of my OB/GYN office when I first heard. Earlier I had been lazing around the house, 8 months pregnant. I hadn't turned on the TV or the radio that day. It was a little after 11 am when I first heard. I had just turned on the radio in my car. I was listening to Dan Rather reporting on the tragedy that had just unfolded. Just then, my cell phone rang. It was my mother's best friend. " YOur mother has been trying to reach you for hours! Are you ok? Where are you?" My cell hadn't received any calls because the lines were tied up. My mom lives in Seattle. She was worried because I live very near NSA and she thought that it may be another target. " I'm ok, I'll call her." I called my mother and we cried. I prayed that this was the last of the destruction and that everyone would be ok. " Please God, be with those people, comfort them and keep them safe." At that point I hadn't realized the utter destruction that had been caused. Today, my heart is still heavy at thoughts of those who perished and those who live to tell the story of what happened that day. I did not know anyone who died on September 11, 2001. But they are in my heart everyday. I cry every time I hear Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA". It means so much to me as an American to be part of this great country. God Bless us all, I am proud to be an American, you will be remembered. 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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: Tuesday september 11th started like any other day. I got up and did my morning rotine like everyother day. Little did I know that the event that were about to happen would change the lives of every american. These events would be the biggest and bring the most change of anything thats ever happend in my life. I went to 2nd hr that day and everything seemed strange the teachers were talking. Then they turned on the t.v and told us about all the people, families, and destruction. I couldnt imagine how people could have such regard for human life. The next few weeks I still thought alot about what had happend . Then my parents, grandmas, and aunt all went on a trip to Sweden. I remember being so scared I didnt even want them to go and i through a huge fit. That brought back everything that had just happend. It's almost the one year anniversary of probley the greatest single american tradgety and I personally 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 story1912.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I was sitting in class when the princible came on the loud speaker and put the school into complete lock down mode and all the class rooms were all looked and u could only leave the class room you were in if your parent came to pick you up but if they didnt you had to stay in your class room until thhey figured out what was going on. my mom picked me up from school that day around noon then we went to pick up my little brother, then we all went home and watched the news. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: It was a normal workday starting at 8:15am. After dropping my daughter off at her school I arrived at work and started the daily routine. A co-worker said she was told an airplane had flown into one of the World Trade Center Buildings. We went into our conference room to watch the news that was on to cover the event. We watched the tower burning and like a scene from a movie saw the second plane fly into the screen and hit the second tower. There was a feeling on unreality. Then a little later (we didn't look at the clock) the Pentagon was hit and then another plane crashed. There was fear, even though no one said anything, you could sense it in the air! What ws going to happen next? Would we, the South Florida area be a target? Was the entire Country at risk? I didn't know at the time the time but two people I knew were in that first building hit. One would survive ( a co-workers son) and the other who worked for Cantor-Fitzgerald died with his brother. He had twin daughters that my daughter had gone to school with in our christian school for six years. It made me realize how easily someone close to you can be taken. I am grateful that God spared my family the grief that the victims family have and continue to go through and I feel truly blessed for that. It made me Proud to be and American when I saw how we banded together like one huge family does when one of theirs is hurt or threatened form outside sources. We will get through this and become stronger because of this tragedy. I will NEVER forget that day or the ones that lost their lives! 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 story3293.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: My name is Jonathon and I was school when this attack happened. Our class just finished the first day of ISTEP and our teacher told us some shocking news that two planes crashed into the World Trade Center. We turn on the TV and we see the headline "World Trade Center Towers Collsape, Thousands Feared Dead and Missing." Other headlines talked about a plane hitting the Pentagon and another crashing in a field in Pennsylvania. After we got out of school (it was a half day) all of us went home shocked and stunned about this horrific news. I went home and turned on the TV which showed the second plane crashing into the south tower of the WTC. This day brought America closer and I hope that everybody around this whole world will never ever forget this horrible day in American history. 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 story986.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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