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 woke up at 5:00 on September 11, 2001. I took a shower, and started to prepare for the day. All of a sudden, I was hit with a very weird feeling. I can't describe it literally, but, I couldn't keep my balance. I have a flex schedule at my job, so I decided to rest for a couple of hours to see if this feeling would go away. I awoke at 7; the feeling was still there, so I called out of work. I sleep with the radio on. I live alone, so it helps with any loneliness issues. I heard something about "a bomb at the Pentagon" on the NPR station, so I jumped out of bed, and clicked on the TV. It was then I heard about a fire; it was 9:15. I was still unaware that the towers were hit by hijacked planes. Just then, ABC replayed the heinous footage of the second plane hitting the South Tower. I immediately called my boss, and said "this was that feeling I was telling you about!" She was stunned, she didn't want to believe that the hijacked airplanes has passengers. She repeatedly asked me if they were "empty". I told her no, she started breaking up. There had been a TV set up in the 2nd flr. conference room, we watched the first tower fall. She got the hell out of the office after that. Philadelphia was evacuated around 10:00 AM ,for fear of the same fate befalling the Liberty Plaza towers. In my apartment, I had one TV tuned to ABC, and the other to the local PBS affiliate, which had the BBC feed. It was a day of watching two perspectives, reliving horrifying footage. I remember vividly the shot of the workers on the upper floors of the North Tower, after the South had collapsed, waving white sheets out of the windows, frantically calling for help. When I spoke to my Mother later that evening, reliving that finally overwhelmed me. I started crying hysterically, saying, "I watched people knowing they were going to die." I have to admit, my first thought on the attack was, "This is an attack on capitalism!" Then, I saw the shot of the people in Palestine dancing. That's when I realized this was a "religious" attack.I don't condone war. However, I will never refer to the events of 9/11 as a "tragedy", only as an "act of war." 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 story695.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. 2002-05-31 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 199.4.155.10