September 11 Digital Archive Emails

I received an email recently containing a famous quote relevant to the current tragedy. It started me thinking about a few choice quotes that I've enjoyed over the years that were also relevant. While it's all too easy for us to impulsively call…

cnn...battleships are out of port to guard east coast
air craft carriers sent to NYC...both out of norfolk

bush to leave LA, state, to undiclosed location
powell also
congress also....

all from cnn

HI JULIE, HI PETER,
we're still under schock and devastaed watching CNN and seing those horrible pictures. It's unbelievable. I hope people in NY will have enough energy to overcome this situation. I wish we could be there and help, US is almost our…

He just called from work, he's OK.
Still don't know how to get home.
The south tower just fell down.
The smoke is horrible!
Shawna

Had to run to the men's room and make some little
Osamas...

So where we at... ah, yeah, ok...

I keep hearing about a "return to normal", and getting
back to or "seeking normalcy". Well, I don't know about
that. It's like Yogi might say "There ain't…

i don't know if there was a plane. but there was an explosion in the other tower also. It is terrible.

Now there are holes in both towers. It looks like twin explosions.

it's true... there is a gaping hole in one of the world trade centers. it
is…

Dear Uncle Jim -

Thanks for writing - I am so sad about all of this and just hope and pray that we can find another way to respond to this threat. I woke up yesterday defiant and thinking why should we give up our freedoms and rights so easily? We…

Heather,

Thanks for asking, Kim is ok as far as I know. Have you heard from U Tom. This is part of what a friend sent to me.

Not more than 10 blocks from me and i really dont know what to say. I am on the 9th floor staring directly at the crash.…

Dear Molly, Morgan

I was yesterday in Milan and I just hardly could get home by plane. I heard
the news and I cannot believe this could happen in the States. I hope you
are all right.
Please write me because I worry about you!
Take care,
Judit

I normally catch the 7:34AM train into Penn Station, but because of local traffic, I arrived late and had to catch the 7:50AM train instead. I was able to catch the subway down to Chambers and I walked outside to because there was a long wait for a…

10:59 am September 11, 2001 Washington DC near the Pentagon

Hi everyone,

Just to let you all know that I am OK. I'm in DC right now and been told this system will be shut down ASAP.. Maybe this will get out first.

I can't leave DC right now,…

tried to get you on your cell phone - all cell phones have been shut down.
hope Christi is ok!!!!! Everything is shut down - just talked to our travel
people in WHI. I don't think we will be going into the City this weekend.
Even the tunnel into NY…

Hey everyone,
This is an email that I got today from Buck. Thought y'all would want to read it and know that he's ok.

Jill

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:35 AM
Subject: Word from New York

>Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001…

This is an e-mail from a young ensign aboard USS Winston Churchill to his parents. Churchill is an Arleigh Burke class AEGIS guided missile destroyer, commissioned March 10, 2001, and is the only active US Navy warship named after a foreign…

As a matter of interest, I was in the Pentagon this morning when the
terrorist flew the airplane into it. I was in the C ring toward the middle
of the building. I heard nothing and felt nothing but we were immediately
alerted to leave the building…

From: Eck, Bernie (CICG- Equity Sales)
To:
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 8:51 AM

A plane just hit the World Trade Center.

Hey Chad I trully appreciate your concern. I do not have any ill feelings toward you. I really cannot begin to explain what happened with our friendhip. Anyway my family and i are okay. my aunt works down the street from the towers; we were concerned…

HI LISA,
WE HAVE HAD HEAVY RAIN ( ASSOCIATED WITH THAT TROPICAL STORM IN THE GULF ) FOR ABOUT 5 DAYS: IT PASSED THE FUN STAGE ABOUT 4 DAYS AGO: I RECEIVED YOUR "E" MAIL IN CONNECTION WITH RESERVE FORCES BEING CALLED UPON: I AM ON 48 HOUR…

-----Original Message-----
From:
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 9:25 AM
To:
Subject: We are all fine


Downtown SF is closing down and they are closing BART down, so I am at home.
William is at school, but it is 10 minutes away, so he is better…

Look, frankly, I think you just don't get enough exposure to the world outside your family and your local Muslim community to be able to distinguish between what is authentic and what is not. Before you get offended and shut out whatever I'm saying,…