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 Library of Congress Stories Description An account of the resource A collection of more than 200 user-submitted stories gathered from the Library of Congress's "Witness and Response" exhibition staged in 2002. LC Story LC Story: Story Where were you on September 11, 2001 when you heard the news? (Please share your experience of learning of the events and what you did afterwards.) I was on my way to work in Alexandria after dropping my son off at school after an early-morning dentist appt. I had been listening to a book on tape and hadn't heard the news. My husband called me and I put on the radio and I thought at first that it must have been a small plane, a ridiculous accident, didn't yet understand the scope. By the time I got to Alexandria, there was a report about the Pentagon, mention of a bombing at the State Dep't; it felt like the world was coming to an end.We could see smoke from the Pentagon from the dock behind the art center. Several people were watching TV in one of the studios, the building was not yet open and it was very quiet. We watched the footage of the planes hitting the buildings and were stunned by the collapses. It felt like we watched for hours. I spoke to my husband, tried to reach my brother in Manhattan, and went home. LC Story: Memory What is your strongest memory of that day? I have so many memories of that day. I remember sitting on the couch w/Larry for hours watching the same images over and over. I remember not being able to not watch. I remember calling friends and family here and in NY. I remember finding out that my husband's partner had been on the plane that crashed int the Pentagon. I remember the little miracles: that our neighbor had had a sore throat and had not gone to his office at the Pentagon that morning, that my brother did not, as he did almost every other morning, go up to his offices in the World Trade Center before heading to his uptown office. LC Story: Affects How do you perceive that the events of September 11, 2001 have affected this country and/or you personally? Sept. 11 woke us up to a terrible new reality. We no longer have the luxury of pretending that terrorist attacks cannot happen in this country, that we are immune from the kind of attacks that have been happening in the middle east for decades. I have been affected by the stories, each incredibly poignant, of the survivors, of those killed. I am moved by each account, the families left behind, the heroism of those who tried to get people out in NY and here at the Pentagon, the horror of those running, trying to get out. I am held captive by those images. 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 lc_story261.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. 2004-01-16 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 68.230.188.145