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 had just given birth to my first daughter on September 7th 2001. We had just come home from the hospital on September 9th. Weary from not getting any sleep on the previous nights my boyfriend and I along with my daughter had just gotton up when we recieved a phone call from my boyfriends father, he told us to turn on the TV. We had asked him what channel and he replied,"it doesn't matter just turn it on!" As we did we saw the most horrific sightever imaginable, WTC Tower 1 on fire. Reports at the time were unclear as to what had happened. Then, still in bed with my newborn baby tightly in my arms we saw the other plane hit WTC Tower 2. At that point I still could not grasp the fact that what I was seeing was real, I kept thinking it was a movie. I could not believe what was unfolding before my eyes. The next few days were unbearable. Being postpartum ontop of this horrific event made turning on the TV unbearable. One of the many images that is still so vivid in my mind was that of a women holding a picture of a man holding his baby in his arms with the caption above reading,"have you seen my daddy?" I could not stop crying after I saw that. Here I am with a new baby in my arms that I brought into this crazy world. It was bitter sweet to have her and be happy knowing that so many babies lost one or both of their parents. I did not want to leave the sercurity my house or the peaceful feeling that I got looking into my daughters eyes. Even then I had a hard time not thinking about all of the unborn babies that would never know their fathers. Or the mothers that would have to go through such a joyful time without their spouses to help them. September 11th is a day that all of America will never forget. I as a American and a new mother will always feel for those mothers and their babies that were born after that day without their fathers. Those babies will never meet their dads or know the world as we did before that awful day in September when time stood still. 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 story4101.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. 66.30.228.110