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 scheduled to be induced on Sept.11. My husband and I arrived at Reston Hospital midnight that Tuesday morning and by 3:30 a.m., my water broke but it wasn't until 8:30 or so that I was given an epidural to ease the pain of the contractions! I remember how quickly the epidural kicked in and just as I was feeling comfortable and relaxed, the nurse ran in and told us that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. My husband turned on the t.v. and for the next few hours, everyone and everything around us in the hospital seemed to shut down and nothing but the replays of the planes hitting the 2 buildings and then that of the Pentagon, the towers collapsing, images of people running for their lives, were all that seemed to mattered. Eventually, it was really too much for me to take/handle. Of course, at the same time, rumors were rampant of a hijacked plane still in the air around Dulles International airport. Reston Hospital is about a 10 minute drive, if that, from the airport. It was a little nervewracking. I must say that this day was supposed to be the most important day of my life and yet, I found myself concentrating and worrying about my family, my friends, the people of D.C. and New York, the safety of the world etc. I was doing everything but concentrating on my unborn son who I was anxious to meet. I finally had enough and asked my husband to turn the tv off. That lasted about an hour and the t.v came back on and it stayed on until 4pm when we were told that I was fully dilated and could start pushing. Our son, Riley Edward, was born that awful yet blessed day of Sept. 11 at 6:09 pm. I have saved every newspaper, magazine clipping I could get my hands on to share with him when he gets older to show him what a blessing he was to us on such an awful day filled with tradgedies. 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 story219.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. 2002-03-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 165.247.83.252 Annotation Annotations to this item. Television Coverage DC:2 Feature