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: Eight months ago today, I left my house and headed for work like any other day. I work about 15 blocks from "ground zero". I usually get in early and turn on the two tv's in my dept. Around 8:50AM as I was watching the end of Good Morning America they interupted saying that a plane had hit one of the towers. They were reporting from the news helicopter. My co workers nwere starting to file in now and we were all just watching. What was happening? Just blocks away. I went to the phone and called my mom who works on Long Island. It was still early enough and you were able to get through on the phone lines. I was relaying to her what the tv was saying. All of a sudden there was an explosion. Because of the camera angle on the tv I did not realize that it was a second plane. Within seconds the TV confirmed that it was a second plane. I had been standing, I dropped to my chair , and screamed into the phone, "my God mommy another plane hit the other tower" At that moment i knew, my coworkers knew, the worlod knew, this was no accident. Some of my co workers went to the roof of my building, there are no words to describe what they saw. My building was evacuated but we were sent back in after a while. No one knew quite what to do. Then the towers started to come down. We sat, blocks away and watched as this unfolded on tv. The plane had hit the pentagon by now I believe and the other had gone down in penn. I think back now on how we all reacted. I had to keep calling people, try to get through, to connect. Others sat rivited to the TV, others just worked on. We were all in shock. I was comforted by the fact that my brother n law who is a nyc firefighter was on vacation in hawaii. He was safe. But so many weren't. So many innocent people lost there lives. Many walked home that day from Manhattan to the outer boroughs. There was this errie silence in the streets of midtown, people just walking, many covered in soot, wearing masks. Very different from the streets of downtown, where chaos reined. Everything about that morning is etched in my mind. What I ate for breakfast, what I was wearing. We all changed that day, an innocence was lost. It has been 8 months today and life goes on, but I see that morning in my minds eye every day. We will never forget......... NEVER! 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 story585.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. 2002-05-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 66.108.93.25