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: I happened to be working day shift for Harrah's Casino. My shift was to start at 12:00 noon. That day started like any other day: after waking up from a good nights sleep and feeding my kids I turned the T.V. on to view the Today show. Because my wife and I had two T.V.'s in our living room, one a small, black and white and another, a l7 inch color T.V. I put a Disney movie in the VCR for the kids to watch on the color T.V. On the Today show was hosts Katie Couric and Matt Lourer. One of the hosts were interviewing someone on the show, when Katie came on with a news flash about one of the World Trade Center towers being on fire. Because Katie and the media did not know exactly what had happened they speculated that a missle had hit the building or it was a result of an explosion inside. The building was heavily ingulfed in smoke and you could tell that there was a large fire inside. I remember telling my oldest son about the building being on fire and he looked at the image on t.v. briefly before turning back to view his video. I watched the image of the one burning tower for quite some time. I can't say for how long. I remember watching the one burning tower when out of nowhere a large explosion engulfed the other tower. My reaction was mixed of awe and disbelelief. I remember telling my oldest son (whom was 6 years old) again to come and see the image of the new burning tower as NBC replayed the explosion over and over again. His reaction to the image was also disbelief. He kept asking me "Is this real" to which my response was "yes". Moments later, from another camera angle it became apparent as to what had happened(the jet striking the second tower)and I knew at that moment that the jet hitting the building was no accident. That is was deliberate. The kids were still watching there movie as if nothing had happened. I glanced back to look at them and the cartoon that they were watching and what stuck in my mind was the image of a cartoon villian grinning maniacally. 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 story7050.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. 2002-09-13 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 67.249.41.119