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: My name is Linda Brown and I live in Wichita, Kansas. September 11th started out just like any other Tuesday. My two oldest kids drove themselves to school, and my eleven year old son decided he was going to ride his bike. I started getting ready for work when I heard the devistating news about one of the towers getting hit. My sister called me on the phone, and we watched the news together in disbelief. She was so frightened about what was happening. She kept saying she wanted to go to school and get her little boy. I kept telling her he'll be fine and I finally convinced her to leave him there. It was about 3:30 that afternoon, my son's school was letting out. I work across the street from his school and on the other side of the intersection is a gasoline station. The traffic was horrible, the gas lines were about twenty cars deep. Everyone thought gasoline was going to skyrocket in price. I went out to the intersection to help the children get across the street safely. Then I went back to work. It wasn't five minutes later when my son's friend came running into the shop, yelling Joseph has(my son) been hit by a truck on his bike. It was total chaos, Joseph was rushed to the hospital by ambulance as a level one head trauma. Later that night, the man driving the truck came to the hospital. He told us he had never driven on that street before. He was just trying to avoid the gasoline station. Joseph spent two days in intensive care. He fractured his skull, broke his nose and orbit bones in four places. Along with alot of road rash. If I would have listened to my sister,and taken him out of school that would'nt have happened. I can look back at it now and say we were the lucky ones. A lot of people were not. 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 story8970.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. 2003-01-17 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 68.102.73.224