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 Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. a friend living overseas wrote: > I read the president's speech on CNN website as well as an article about a > hockey game being cancelled to listen to the speech. Quite moving and > impressive. > > Now I want to hear from you about what you are hearing and feeling and > thinking...be my window on the world back home, please! > Sigh....... I have no idea where to begin... To tell you that I cry myself to sleep? When I can sleep... To tell you that the moment I wake, I cry? That, with every breath, I beg, I BEG God not to take my sons ( into the Military)? One of the greatest joys of my life was my safety in this country. It is gone. I rejoiced in the inherent security I enjoyed. While I suffered with other populations at war, in famine.. I was comforted that we were 'safe'. I have never spoken one ill word against America. I have cherished my life in this country. I know you have lived in areas outside of the U.S. I know you have seen many conditions that I have not and it is it my intention to sound like an isolationist. Simply, I am trying to come to terms with my grief. While I mourn for all the mothers, fathers and children that were murdered and I know some of them...I also mourn for the feeling of safety, the security I so loved. I feel that I have led a better life than my children will... Not economically; although that may prove to be true as well, but the peace that was a part of my being will not be with them. Never did I look into the sky and fear an airplane. Never did I listen to a President addressing Congress as we went to war My generation lived after WWII and before September 11, 2001. It was a privileged existence and it is gone. Many of those that lost their lives were of my generation. May they rest in Peace. May they not suffer the fear that we now know. The fear that was born on that day will live with my children forever. How will it change their lives? How will it change their souls? You ask what the U.S. is like today. We are weeping. It has been 10 days and we are still weeping. We hang our flags and wear our ribbons to honor a country that has changed. We want to act normally but there is no normal. We seem to be walking in circles... But, we are together. You need only to look into another's eyes to know what they are thinking. To know that they, too, are struggling with great grief. To see their resolve. We will do what we must. I know you are craving specifics, Cathy. Perhaps, I just can't acknowledge anything specific yet... I live 75 miles west of Washington, DC and about 150 miles south of New York City. Everyone, everyone, I know has lost someone. Seeing the photos of the last 10 days is helpful to me. Others would not want to view them but I find them necessary to my being able to accept this. I tell myself, "That was then, this is now", "That was then, this is now", one million times a day as I struggle to accept this new America. I force myself into a place where everything is different, where our very landmarks are changed. -J September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 9-21-01 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Explaining America Now-to a friend overseas 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 email413.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. unknown 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. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. unknown Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. yes Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-08-19 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 68.46.144.7