o Includes 8 video clips related to news coverage of September 11th. They are:
- WUSA News Coverage from the morning of September 11, 2001 (5 mins)
- Presidential Statement from the morning of September 11, 2001 (2 mins)
- President Bush, September 11, and Critical Decisions (3 mins)
- Photographer Doug Mills on Traveling with the President on September 11 (4 mins)
- Vice President Dick Cheney on September 11 (2 mins)
- New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on September 11 (4 mins)
- New York City Resident's Witness Account (8 mins)
- President Obama's Remarks at the 2013 Pentagon Remembrance Ceremony (7 mins)
· Newseum
o Archive of Front Pages on September 11th (http://www.newseum.org/
o Lesson Plan: Running Toward Danger (http://www.
· Library of Congress September 11th Documentary Project (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
· 9/11 Commission Report (http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/
· Teaching History (http://teachinghistory.org/
· 9/11 Memorial Teaching Guides
o Teaching Guides (http://www.911memorial.org/
o Primary Sources (http://www.911memorial.org/
· New York Times (http://learning.blogs.
· 9/11 Tribute Center (http://tributewtc.org/
I will be at the ELC all day but would be happy to provide some personal context. I was in nj during 9/11 and remember watching the smoke rise over the ocean after getting home from work that day. I remember the sights, sounds, panic, numbness, and sense of never feeling safe again. I remember the pain of every small community that lost at least one person that day. But most of all, I remember the smell two days later when the wind shifted and blew what i can only describe as the scent of death over our town. That smell never goes away. It's been 14 years and I still can't watch footage and struggle to talk about it without choking up. Watching the second plane fly into the towers, and watching them fall, knowing that I would never see them from the beach on a clear day again, wondering what it would take, if anything, to feel safe again are all visceral images burned into my brain, that I will carry with me always.
ReplyDeleteBut the smell. It still haunts me. I still catch faint whiffs of it sometimes and it all floods back. It all. Floods. Back.
Thank you, Eric, for helping to create a context for studying this event by sharing these pain-filled memories. There is a part of that day that can only be realized by people who experienced it directly. We appreciate this glimpse of insight.
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