1 20 70360 https://911digitalarchive.org/files/original/c3b71d2478c13a11a085b5371114cea7.jpeg ebc021e0aa8a341a654a2d62c2d791a0 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question I ended up marrying the “friend” who worked in the Pentagon, and am very thankful he was ok. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? Friend 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 Kelly Lai https://911digitalarchive.org/files/original/30b61f781f05ae6ed22c9f8d4d7b62fe.pdf 0d1691d374574367dff9143dbc8f071d Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question All of our lives have changed from the fear that 9/11 instilled, causing security challenges and privacy issues that became permanent, and two wars that went on far too long. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? I searched how to post 9/11 stories. 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 How a Childcare Problem May Have Saved My Life https://911digitalarchive.org/files/original/f952a50f922eb28e52b9abb9e2741bff.docx e67eef2ee221563be24c26210d12e593 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question Watching that many people jump to their deaths never goes away Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? Searched 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 Henri perez Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question On September 11, 2001, I was an Active Duty soldier in the US Army; that day, I was on shift at a satellite operations facility located in the East China Sea. We were locked inside the facility as a typhoon was battering the island. We typically had CNN on the TV above the operations floor to help break the monotony and to keep up with current affairs in the US. When the news broke about the first plane, there was some commotion and everyone seemed uneasy about what was happening. Many of us watched as a reporter was covering the scene from nearby and as the second plane struck the second tower on live TV. No one at that point had any doubts that the US was under some kind of attack. While I had been selected by the Operations Officer to be the unit's Antiterrorism Officer a year prior, I didn't initially consider terrorism as the culprit. When news came that the Pentagon had also been struck by a plane, the mood amongst the two typhoon shifts was a mix of horror, anger, and uncertainty. I won't share operational details of what happened following the cowardly terrorist attack, but the events that day influenced my professional career and academic studies over the twenty years since. I didn't know anyone who lost their life, or the life of a family member or friend, but a former girlfriend of one of my childhood friends was in Manhattan when it occurred. She emailed me a picture she took while she fled the area--a single image of the towers burning before they collapsed. I think of that photograph often around the anniversary of the attack. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? Radio 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 Watching 9/11 on Active Duty https://911digitalarchive.org/files/original/166ab85c6abe7feb525255b5b60cf7e7.jpg 8237474eea6134deef2d4b1cd7e2769f Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question I lost someone I loved on this day. I was in high school in princess anne maryland in typing class 101. my dear friend called me and said I love you very much and you have a gift on the way. next thing I knew the phone hung up and i was told to go back to class and stay there. I looked at the tv walking and the room and cried my eyes out. when they finally let us go home I checked my AOL messenger for any news from my friend. Nothing for almost a week and then I get a message from his mom saying that he had passed away trying to escape the tower and his body was never found. My heart dropped I lost my friend and my first love. I will always remember this day it will never be forgotten. To my friend who died I love you and miss you I just hope you are proud of me. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? wjz news 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 Jessica Degroft Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question From September of 1996 to October of 2000, I worked at the Borders Books Music & Cafe at 5 World Trade Center. I used to love talking walks on my break outside to look up at the towers. I had only ever been to the TKTS booth a few times and the interior observation deck once in 1994 when visiting with friends. I quit Borders because I was burned out from the job and I had wanted more tutoring hours at Writing Center at Hunter College, where I was a student. Based on the times, I was asleep when the first tower was hit, and I was in the shower when the second tower was hit. I was living in Queens at the time with my then-partner. I never watched the news at that time of the morning. I didn't have time. Nobody was talking about what happened when I got to the subway, and nobody was talking about it while I rode the train to Hunter. When I got my food at the cafeteria and was about to head to the Writing Center to begin my shift, I noticed that about 60 people were clustered around a TV attached up on the wall in one of the eating areas. I only glanced at the footage because I wanted to have enough time to eat breakfast before my shift, so I figured that a small Cessna plane had hit the Empire State Building. About an hour later, my boss came into the Writing Center and said to all of us, "It wasn't just one tower that was hit, it was both." I said, "BOTH? What are you talking about?" My boss asked, "Anthony do you have ANY idea what's going on right now?" I shrugged. "A plane hit a building." He said, "It was the World Trade Center." Immediately, my mind flashed on all of my friends who were in Building 5 at Borders. I worried that they would all be killed. My boss told me that the school would be cancelling classes but that we couldn't go home because transit was being shut down. He also said some students might still be showing up in the next hour or so and that it was okay if they wanted to talk about what was happening (or if we wanted to share our own feelings with them). One student came in, and I asked her if she was all right. She said she was a little shaken and asked me if I was okay. I said I was, and we had our tutoring session. It didn't occur to me until about noon that I should call anyone and tell them that I was okay. I was able to get through to my dad and let him know I was all right and to tell everyone else in the family. After I hung up, I called my partner to let him know as well, then I went to my email and sent out a general "I'm fine" message to as many people as I could. The school said that they would keep the vending machines stocked in case we had to stay too much later, and I figured we'd need some entertainment as well. So I walked uptown to 84th Street in hopes that Game Show (my favorite board game store) would be open so I could bring back some games for everyone. On my way, I stopped by an ATM where the line was way out the door but moving very quickly. Everyone was talking about it. "Terrorists" was a word I heard in every conversation. We all agreed by silent consensus that THAT was what it had to be. It couldn't have been an accident. I continued on my way uptown. The streets were closed off to traffic, and there were only a few people about. The only thing I have to compare it to is the scene in the "Hush" episode of _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_ where Buffy and Willow are walking through Sunnydale. I saw a few small groups of people, I saw one man sitting on the curb appearing to be crying, I saw a couple of people just staring toward downtown. When I got to Lenox Hill Hospital at 77th, a large group of doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel were waiting, gurneys and medical equipment at the ready in case survivors needed to be brought in. Just seeing all of them gave me hope. Game Show was closed, so I headed back to Hunter. We were able to head back home around three because transit had re-opened. I had never seen the subway so quiet. Nobody was talking. One young woman looked up at me, and I offered her a wan "It's going to be okay" smile, which she returned. September 11th was five days into my final semester of school. I had to stay focused on that. I had to finish because I was so close. Class numbers dwindled. By the end of the semester, 30 of the 60 students in the Greek Civilization class I was taking had dropped out. Usually, there's only about a ten percent loss of students at most from classes at the end of the semester. I graduated and took a three-week vacation out west with my then-partner and a friend of his. When I got back and started to apply for jobs in the publishing field, I found that there was nothing available, all due to the attacks' effect on the economy. I never thought that day would still be so fresh in my mind twenty years later. It took a long time for me to recover financially and emotionally from the effects that the attacks had on me. I have dreaded the 20th anniversary for years now because every year on That Day, the news is all, "It's x number of years since the 9/11 attacks -- what have we learned?" Beats me. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? NPR 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 That Day https://911digitalarchive.org/files/original/c0b83065cca26607268c49e1c4700f82.docx 515c830b406523b3ad81c46014092299 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? September 11 Digital Archive 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 Surviving the 9/11 Pentagon Terrorist Attack https://911digitalarchive.org/files/original/73cf66d13833828ad20e2075d642a55e.pdf 2c086aee608da9920cac6685a1ebf569 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question I'm glad I was there to be able support those so deeply affected but I don't ever want to do it again. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? My father-in-law 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 Chocolate and Chapstick https://911digitalarchive.org/files/original/caf9406a3f92278a430f032f83caa379.docx 4305e6a0d31c239b310b8355639756fb Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question Not that much but I do think about it often. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? Searched 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 9/11 My https://911digitalarchive.org/files/original/22b06413041b294f8983c95c16b54462.jpeg c015301658091feea55056e5cb8ca9fe Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question To this day, I can’t watch any footage without severe anxiety. 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/. Description An account of the resource Taken in the Summer of ‘89; the last time I was in NYC prior to 9/11. Title A name given to the resource I❤️NY Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question Retired to South SFL, then to AL for simpler, peaceful life Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? faithful listener to AL public radio 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 My Experence of Seeing 911 Attack on America Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question Never before have I witnessed such terror and hatred of this magnitude. I deeply love my family and friends, and try to be tolerant of all people; life is short. I try to find joy and love in small things, in art, music, and face my fears. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? From an article assigned in doctoral program at NCSU. Haskins, E. (2007). Between archive and participation: Public memory in a digital age. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 37(4), 401-422. 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 Watching Terror Unfold Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question I was a member of The 42nd Division of The New York Army National Guard on 9/11, and deployed to NYC from Albany on September 22nd for 30 days. I worked with the NYC Office for Emergency Management. I would like to donate my ID badge and a few other items. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? A TV program on the Smithsonian Channel on or following 9/11/2020 https://911digitalarchive.org/files/original/71697b356715ae3f638fee308816af8c.htm 406e2ce96239a4233e2dad3ce06b29d3 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 15th Anniversary Collection Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question lost my brother in 2010 Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? 911 memorial 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 Ray Berry NY Artist Eyewitness thoughts 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 15th Anniversary Collection Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question I will never feel as safe as I used to feel Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? my son 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 Fear 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 15th Anniversary Collection Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question After that fateful day, the way I observed the world around me changed. Where before I would see Arabic people as simply people who I may have a hard time understanding, I afterwards saw them as associated with my nation's enemy. It took years before I learned to stop being paranoid towards "the other" and would once again see the potential good, or at least potential nothing in people before the potential evil. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? It was on an archive list on my university's website. 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 The dark side of identity https://911digitalarchive.org/files/original/28574f2509f53d3ed0adafe02e58a4dc.docx a84f6359adcf6e1ec90c79f58a16e8c7 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 15th Anniversary Collection Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question lost family and friends. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? google 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 'Look at this!' https://911digitalarchive.org/files/original/237085a858341bdad867a545788135b6.jpeg ef2e9b7a113f88d8367ebc4f2152dbc6 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 15th Anniversary Collection Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question I was a kid who was at school at the time and I remember I was dismissed early. I remember people were freaking out around me and as a kid, I didn’t understand what was going on, but since I’m older now, I understand how much pain and trauma the loss still has on people today. My godmother worked at the World Trade Center at the time and thank God she left because my parents used to talk about that day when I was a kid and how lucky she was and is to be alive. Since 9/11, I’ve been to the memorial on separate occasions and I’ve talked to people about their take on the memorial. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? TV Media Class 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 Josiah Bhola Hillaire 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 15th Anniversary Collection Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question God has such an interesting way of bringing things about. So today I’m relaxing, loving life and being thankful. But I got this weird impulse. Many of you might be familiar with it. It’s kind of a macabre, morbid curiosity that comes about and entices you to look up disasters from the past, watch police chase videos and car crash compilations on YouTube. Well, today it was 9/11. Before I go any further, I found a vast and invaluable digital archive of everything from text accounts to audio records. You can find it here; http://911digitalarchive.org/items/browse This event is still so recent in many of our minds. That macabre interest turned into horror and sadness for me very quickly. Realizing as I listen to eyewitness accounts, I know exactly where I was as all of it happened. There were a few things that upset me about it, though I was very young. I was 8 when 9/11 occurred, but my memory of it is quite clear and articulate. I was in 3rd grade, Ms. Hamilton’s class at Watkins Memorial Elementary. It was in her class that I also witnessed our first pictures transmitted from Mars’ surface. I digress. The day had scarcely begun before it all seemed to... end? End isn’t the right word. Things kept moving, we kept changing classes and moving through our day as we normally had, but none of the classes were actually anything but sitting and watching the news. I’ll never forget that it was in those classrooms that I witnessed what true horror looked like on the faces of my teachers. I remember looking at the TV and knowing it was real, but thinking that somehow it couldn’t be. But it had to be. That was Fox News. My parents watch Fox News. They don’t joke around about these things. I remember thinking how “that’s the building my dad got his picture taken on top of, the one I really want to go see”. Then I remember my art teacher gasping as the first tower fell, and having the thought “I literally just saw thousands die”. I was only 8 years old, but it hurt me somewhere at my core. I remember that sorrow turned to rage when my classmate, a certain Austin P., laughed and said “Hahaha! I hope the second tower falls!” Nobody said anything to him about that except me. “Those are real people, dude! This isn’t a movie!” “So?” Was his apathetic reply. When the second tower fell, He exclaimed “Awesome!” And I swear it took everything I had in me to keep from punching him in the mouth. I was 8. Seriously. Think about that. So many parents dismiss their kids’ bad behavior because of their age, but I was 8 and I knew that was wrong. There’s no reason he didn’t know that, right? That’s probably the thing that upset me most about that day, and it’s irked me ever since. How can a person laugh at other people’s plight like that? How can a living soul that experiences pain, sadness, fear and general emotion look upon other living souls that experience those feelings and derive pleasure from it? I haven’t kept up with that boy. Never once have I tried to look him up. I hope he’s changed, but something tells me that kind of sadism doesn’t just disappear with age. Something tells me he wouldn’t be the kind of person I want in my life. Anyways, I’ll never forget 9/11. It was the day I realized that life is a gift. It’s the day I learned that every day is uncertain, and it’s the day I learned that not all humans have our best interest at heart. I learned what a challenge it truly meant when Jesus said “Love your enemies”, because... well. How do you love people who kill thousands of innocents? Probably the more realistic challenge is figuring out how do I love this boy who laughs as he watches thousands die on live television? How do I turn the tide of evil in a mind like that? These and many other questions ought to populate our brightest minds alongside the questions of how to stabilize the economy, reverse climate change and create sustainable forms of energy. My heart goes out to the victims and families of victims from 9/11. If my experience sucked, I can’t imagine what you experienced. It’s been almost 18 years. I was 8 years old. I still remember it in painful clarity. You are not alone. #September11 #YouAreNotForgotten Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? Google search 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 D. Hinkofer, Account https://911digitalarchive.org/files/original/e515c22a3ffcd87844b80f3ce1b994d9.jpg 7e56437b52f62fca3f6ba86f5c3fd06e 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 15th Anniversary Collection Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question I'm more giving of my time. How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question I remember every year. People said they would never forget. I have not. I never will. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? Google search brought it up Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource "Remember Me" a pentagon shaped quilt made in the months following 9/11. Each strip holds the name/location of victims lost that day. Title A name given to the resource Remember Me