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 Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: My husband and I were in Rostov, Russia completing the adoptions of our baby girl, Isabellah Monet and our baby boy, Nash Stephen. The morning we actually went to the orphanage to pick up Isabellah was the morning that the twin towers were attacked. We cannot explain the bittersweetness in our hearts that day. Here we were in Russia adopting our only children and that day was to be the happiest day of our lives. When we walk into the home of our host family, there were tears in the eyes of other adoptive parents. We had a new baby girl in our arms and were so elated to have her when we heard the news and saw on the television the devastation of the attacks. We could not believe what we were seeing. We immediately wanted to fly home with our babies and to be in our own country to mourn with our fellow Americans but then we were not able to do that due to the airport closures and plane groundings all over the world. We felt so helpless. What got us through the ordeal was that we had a new babies in our arms to keep us occupied until we could finally fly home after 3 weeks in Russia. The Russians were very empathetic for America and its citizens. GOD BLESS AMERICA! 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 story1196.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. yes 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. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no 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. 12.109.64.66 Annotation Annotations to this item. Americans overseas Struggle to get home INTERNATIONAL Notes Notes about this item. duplicate not posted