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 was on campus at Purdue getting ready to kickoff our Fall interview campaign. One of my colleagues ran towards the group and told us what had happened. At first we didn't think much of it, beyond a horrible plane wreck. It didn't take long though to realize what actually had happened. I was scheduled to return home to Austin, Texas later that evening. The reason for this submission is because of the heroism I witnessed far away from Ground 0. I've never seen people come together like that - helping complete strangers, all working together to accomplish a common goal - to get home. I was stranded nearly a week, and was able to finally catch a flight from Indianapolis to Chicago - the only flight out that day. I spent nearly 18 hours at O'Hare, something which normally would've sent me over the edge. But it was different. It was as if total strangers had come together like close families while at the airport. Our flights (as you would expect) would be scheduled/cancelled/rerouted/you name it - and across the airlines. Any airline would get you to where you needed to go, if they were able. No need to mess with tickets. I met this lady, who apparently was a sort of VIP in her company in Austin. She had asked me if she could share my electric outlet (I was working from a laptop and needed recharged). Her travel agent did all the work to find her flight after flight for her to jump on, which took hours. The agent finally said they were "rerouting the limo" which was on it's way back from New York to pick her up in Chicago and drive her back to Austin. She immediately looked at me (and the couple I had "adopted") and told us that she would ensure we had a seat in her limo. The couple I had adopted was an elderly couple from England, who were rerouted into Canada on their flight into Austin to visit their daughter. They were held up in Canada, very well taken care of - but when they got to Chicago, they were very lost, not knowing how to manipulate the flight schedules. I had promised them I would get them back to Austin one way or another and had them stay in touch with their daughter. What would we ever do without cell phones? After numerous changes of flights, we ALL finally made it onto a flight which went to Dallas (only a 3 hour drive from there to Austin if we had to!) We all boarded (near 11:00). The crew was fantastic! We were all extremely tired. Once we got into Dallas, our connecting flight to Austin had been cancelled. A bomb threat in the Dallas airport meant a very long evacuation into the parking lots during the wee hours of the morning, and a couple lap walk around the airport (literally). At roughly 2:30 AM, a "volunteer" flight crew was assembled (every one of the crew were Austinites wanting nothing more than to go home). What an interesting flight! It's about an hour drive from the Austin airport to my house (and quite a bit shorter I discovered when you're driving it at 3:30 AM). I still had the elderly couple with me. As it turned out, their daughter lived in my own neighborhood! What a small - AND wonderful (most of the time) world we live in. I hope I get to see humanity in this light again, this time without the tragedy that went along with 9/11. 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 story4036.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. 2002-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 66.68.168.15