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: A very strange postscript to what I thought were fully formed memories of 9/11: I spent the day at the CUNY Graduate Center, discharging various responsibilities, sitting with Steve Brier, Frances Horowitz, et al. Just the other day, 10 months later, I saw a good friend Angela Sales and, as is my habit, asked her where she was on 9/11. "I spent the day with you Steve." And it was true. I had completely wiped from my memory that Angela had been stranded at our midtown campus because the CUNY campus at which she worked was adjacent to ground zero. I had invited her to sit in my office on the couch and relax. But 10 months later, in some sort of strange coping mechanism, I find I have totally wiped out big pieces of that day, who was with me, what I did, even how and when I got home. I guess this kind of retrospective erasing is exactly why a project like the 911digitalarchive is so important. Memories of trauma, as opposed to recollections of other less cataclysmic historical events, may be especially vulnerable to "erasure. So, yes, Angela was with me. 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 story858.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. 2002-07-04 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 68.37.30.168 Annotation Annotations to this item. NY:3