September 11 Digital Archive Emails

Sent from my mother in Georgia to me in Dublin on 9/11 at 14:38 GMT

We just heard the Pentegon has just been bombed and they are evacuating D.C. and N.Y.C.! All the news channels are blocked on the web -- at least no one here has been able to get…

From the front lines. Part two to follow...


> From: "Mike Daisey"

> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 10:52 AM
> Subject: 09/11/01
>
>
> I am writing this from downtown New York. In a
> perverse reversal, I have no
> way to contact anyone except…

Today we are all Americans


Dear Klaus and Kerstin:
Thank you so much for your very caring and inspiring message. We feel the
same
way that you do. Bruce and I returned yesterday from Europe and there were
many
different emotions upon arriving in…

Subject: Statement of Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta
Sent by: DOT NEWS
Services

09/11/01 08:20PM
Please respond to dot.news
Tuesday, September 11, 2001
7:30 p.m. (EST)
Contact: Chet Lunner…

Sorry- left out the subject header the first time I sent this.

> 9/12/01 - I wrote this during the afternoon yesterday but was not able
> to send it because the phone lines are screwed up and I can't connect to
> the internet. Sorry if the…

I am beat but just wanted you to know I am okay. I had a meeting at 0830 on the 44th floor of WTC#1. Typically, I was late and thus was outside the building just after the second plane hit. Everyone I know, except for one guy, is okay but some are…

hi all,

wanted to let you know we're OK here. Ron is in midtown and although my building is not far from the world trade center--the view from here is absolutely unreal--we are ok but everyone is really shaken up and we're being evacuated (walking,…

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From: x
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 19:58:47 -0400
To: x
Subject: What's the right punishment?

What to do about Osama bin Laden? The problem is, what do you do with him
once he's found?
Kill him -- he becomes a martyr ...
Don't kill…

Dear Kara,
I have been trying to call you but the line is either busy or there's no line at all. Stay calm. You are going to be fine. I am sure the city will urge everyone to get out of town in an orderly manner. Mom called me here at my office, and…

> Despite the inward obsession of mainstream US media, there's a world out
> there deeply affected by the events of last week.
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~hankinhsd/thankyou.htm
>

From: X
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 13:45:49 -0400
To: xxx
Subject: Food For Thought




Who did it? Foreign Report presents an alternative
view

Israels military intelligence service, Aman, suspects
that Iraq is the state that sponsored the suicide…

Subject: I'm OK

But I can't say the same for the city. We're not really sure what all is going on right now, just that the Pentagon was hit and several other sites around the city. I can see the smoke from the Pentagon from our office. I'll be in…

This is an unashamed exercise in writing about the US
and what happened there. I just want to write about
it.

The horror of the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon
remains on my mind. Very much so. I keep asking
myself - what kind of rancid,…

It has been one of those days where there is nothing you can do but watch
the story develop. No book, movie, music or sport seems important enough.
Allane told me she heard a jet roar over her apartment at about 8:50 this
morning. Monica was actually…

I thought I would share a few observations with you about being in NYC on Sept. 11, 2001,when terrorists crashed airplanes into the towers of the World Trade Center.

Nan and I live about 15 blocks north of the WTC and on Tuesday morning I got out…

Hi Rob,
Thanks for your concern. Fortunately I had returned to London for a wedding last
weekend. I was meant to have flown back on Tuesday morning.
It was shocking watching the footage not knowing how to get news of my friends
and colleagues. I…

did you hear a plane crashed into the world trade center?

JULIE,
HOPE ALL IS BETTER WITH YOU. I KNOW THE FEELING OF WANTING TO HELP AND CAN'T BE ABLE TO. WHAT YOU'RE CURRENTLY FEELING IS PRETTY MUCH HOW WE ALL FEEL. THE BLOOD DRIVES IN THIS AREA ARE SO MASSIVE THAT THEY ACTUALLY TELL YOU TO COME BACK…

Sent to me by a friend who received this today from an eye witness:


Tuesday, September 11, 2001

Well, what a morning! I got up and came to the office, sat down and started
to sign on to my email when I heard a terrible explosion which I ignored…

Dear Toe,
I'm OK. I even got a couple of days off. Joy!

I was walking through downtown Brooklyn on my way to work yesterday. I happened to look up, and saw the World Trade Center tower ON FIRE. Just the top of it, sticking up over the building…