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 day started out like all the other's who have since fallen. I was at work, listening to Howard Stern on my headphones when my mother called to tell me about the first plane hitting the World Trade Center. This has happened before so I really didn't pay too much attention to it. Then alittle later, my mother called again, nearly crying. She told me a second plane had hit the second tower right while she was watching news coverage of the first plane! Then Howard broke in with his coverage of the events which I loyally listened to in between trying to console my friend, who's mother was down in Manhattan. (Thankfully, she was a few blocks away at the time and was home safely a few days later.) It was a very scary and surreal feeling. Everyone in the office was calling loved ones, watching a small TV someone happened to have, and generally trying to make sense of a senseless event. I called my parents and asked them to give my 2 year old twin girls a kiss from mommy and that I loved them all just in case anything more happened. The news coverage in the following days was almost too much to bear and feeling the lose of so many people, hopes, dreams was devastating. Fortunatly, I did not lose anyone in my family or circle of friends. But as Verizon is such a big company, I did hear horror stories of body parts falling on people and fire all around. I collected any paper work I could on the events for my daughters as I'm sure this will be taught in History some day. The feeling of not knowing what's ahead for us all is agonizing but I believe in America and all we stand for. I'm sure we'll prevail in whatever measures are taken. I have flown since the attacks, my first time and in October 2001. I overcame my fear of flying so that that freedom couldn't be taken away from me by myself or anyone else. I flew my flag on Sept 11 2002 and wore red, white, and blue in remembrance. I've brought essentials to the volunteers who were bringing down contributions to the cleanup site after the attacks. Most of all, I've tried not to make too rash judgements of other people and events and told my loved ones I love them every day since, because you never know what's going to happen. I'm sure that's the way the heros and victims of 9/11 felt on that day as they went to work only to have it all ripped out from under them in the blink of an eye. The blink of America's eye. 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 story5058.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. 24.58.128.106