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: Because it was my twin daughters first day of Pre-K, I had taken the day off of work and was planning a fun day with them. We were planning to go to Mc Donald's(their favorite) for lunch and then to school in the afternoon. We had gotten up early to see Daddy off to work and then they were watching a video(Disney) in their room. I had been busy cleaning when one of them came in to tell me the movie was over. As I went into their rooom, I saw the image of the first tower shortly after it had been hit and the headline "Breaking News" at the bottom of the screen. Of course since it was their t.v., I quickly turned the channel to a cartoon and ran into the living room to find out what had happened. As I sat their in disbelief, I called my sisiter at work to tell her a plane had crashed into the WTC. We both thought it was an accident only to find out otherwise a few minutes later as the second tower was hit on live television. During the rest of the unfolding events, I became more afraid to leave my house. My friend whose child would be attending school with my twins called to ask if they were going. We discussed our fears and decided school would have to wait for another day.ANd to my twins unhappiness, McDonald's would have to wait too. As I hugged my girls tightly throughout the day, I prayed that people would survive and ran several times to the bathroom to cry. I tried to explain to my twisn that some bad men had done very bad things and that we needed to stay home from school today. As the hours progressed, I felt my fear and sadness turn to anger as I realized the terrorists had not only killed thousands but they had cheated me out of seeing my twins first day of preschool. Although they finally had their first day of school later in the week, I was unable to take the day off of work to do all the fun things that we had planned. Today, I am thankful and feel very lucky because unlike the thousands of Moms and Dads who were killed that day, I still got to hug my beautiful children! God Bless all those families whose lives were forever changed that awful september day and 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 story6844.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. 2002-09-12 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 63.232.8.34