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 am a NYPD Detective and I was in my office in Brooklyn. My office looks across the water into Manhattan and the Twin Towers. One of my colleagues just left the office and returned suddenly stating that he heard that a plane had hit the World Trade Center; we turned on the television and saw the smoke coming from one of the towers and I thought to myself that it must have been a small plane like the one that hit the Empire State building years ago. Then I and several others went outside to look and I saw a plane flying low coming from the the direction of the Statue of Liberty going toward the towers and I thought it was trying to avoid the thick smoke coming from the towers. I turned to go inside when I heard this scream form one of the females from my office who was up on the roof of our building; I ran up to the roof and she was hysterical; screaming and crying, I asked what happened and she said that another plane hit the building. I turned and scanned the sky realizing that the low flying plane I had been watching was the second plane that hit the towers. I felt an empty feeling come over me and I ran downstairs and jumped in a car with another detective and drove to the Battery Tunnel so I could go help whoever I could. I am also an Emergency Medical Technician and I knew that this was going to be a horrible, horrible day. We were unable to get through the tunnel for approximately an hour and when we came out the other side I was stunned by this time both towers had fallen and there was smoke and ash everywhere you looked. It was about a foot deep all over. I saw ESU trucks crushed, police and firetrucks also. empty shoes all over the street where people had run out of them in fear or where someone had jumped from the towers. It was the most horrific thing I had ever seen. 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 story1503.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. 2002-08-27 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 205.188.209.40