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: Amanda Mondello Global 5-24-02 September 11th September 11th was a dramatic and tragic day for everyone in the United States. Terrorists attacked our country and killed innocent lives. Two planes were flown into the Twin Towers and after that, sparked a war between the United States and Osama bin Laden, the main suspect for this horrendous act. No matter what, people want him to be captured whether he is dead or alive. I remember seeing the dust and the destruction on the television. Every class that I went into, the television was on and everyone's eyes were glued to it, watching in complete silence. We were all listening to find out and discover new information about what was going on. When I was in Global Studies, second period, we were watching for about ten minutes when all of a sudden we witnessed the second plane crash into the side of the second building. At first we were like why are they showing us a replay of what is going on, but then we realized that it wasn't the first plane, it was the second one. I could not believe that us, of all people, experienced that second plane crash into the building. I was so traumatized just thinking about all of the innocent lives that were just ended that day. People going to work not realizing that they would never see their families again. In my mind that would be so hard to just lose someone because of the hatred that man has for our country, just because we are different and he doesn't agree with how we are and how our country is run. After that day a lot of people changed. I remember the next day I was driving around and I saw people putting up flags in their windows on, on their cars, hanging on posts. Their were also people holding candles, mourning the loss of all the people that had their lives ended so suddenly inside of the World Trade Center, and the Pentagon. A sign of patriotism just shot through our country that we haven't seen in awhile. Even though this was a devastating event, it brought our nation together and made us that much stronger in many different ways. Our school raised money so that we could put up flags in almost every single one of our windows, which I thought was very generous. Also when we had our moment of silence for what had happened, everyone was silent and I could see in his or her faces that they truly cared about what was going on around them. This day will be remembered for the rest of our lives, and is now a part of the history that will be taught hundreds of years from now. The lives that were affected by this catastrophe will also be remembered, and the ones that ended will be deeply missed. I just can't believe that someone would be so merciless to kill yourself as well as innocent lives just because you were told to and because you dislike our western civilization. That truly makes me sick that someone could just go out their, steal our planes, and kill our American people. 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 story728.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. 2002-06-06 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 168.169.8.135