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: When I woke up that morning it was sunny and I was happy because I wanted to visit the World Trade Center with a friend. We wanted to meet at 8.00 at the Newark Penn Station to go to NY by subway. This was my 12th day in the USA. I was completely excited. My whole life I was dreaming about visiting the United States and finally my dream came true. So I took my bagpack, and when I wanted to leave the house I got a phonecall from the College I had made a test for my studies. They told me to come there in one hour at 9am instead of Wednesday, one day later as a was supposed to. So I asked a friend of mine to drive me. We had to go to Cranford, NJ. When we got back, the day was so beautiful....I raised my head and saw the WTC, the first tower was burning and I say the smoke. It was so unreal, what had happened? I thought it was a joke. I put on the radio and they were telling something but they either didn?t know what was going on at that time. My friend immediately said that it was a terrorist attack. I had to laugh because I thought that he was joking. Then I saw a plane coming very close, but the car turned and I couldn?t see no more. A little bit farther I could see the two towers burning and more smoke was coming up,. At that time I didn?t know that there were planes involved. When we finally reached the house back in Secaucus where I lived, I got into and screamed that everyone should turn on the TV. Then the same second I saw the two towers collapsing. I couldn?t move, for hours I was staring at the scenery imagining myself inside of the buildings. What if the college hadn?t called me? Would I be there, seeing and throughliving all what others? For the next days I was watching TV. The worst for my parents in Spain, they couldn?t call me and neither could I. THey thought I was there in the buildings, as I told them before. This had turned my life around. I?m with this city all the time, with my thoughts. And this will stay in my memory for the rest of my life. Regards for the firefighters who did the best they could. This was the worst experience I had in my whole life. 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 story10903.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. 2004-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 80.58.40.237