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: Stephen Stodolka 9/11/02 5/28/02 S.S September 11, 2001 The date was September 11, 2001 and it was my first year of high school. I attend Barker Central High School, which is located in a small town in Niagara County, New York. Barker is mostly farmland; in fact I live on a one hundred thirty six-acre vegetable farm. September 11th was like any normal day in my community. However what was about to happen shook our little town of Barker. The incredible evil that unleashed on that fateful day changed our community forever. I woke up at 6:00 Am and got ready for school. The school bus arrives at my house around 7:00 Am. It picks my brother Charles, my sister Mary and myself up for school every morning. The bus ride was normal. There were the noisy kids that sit in the back and the kids that try to sleep sitting around the middle and front of the bus. Coincidently, my sister and I sit in the middle of the bus. As the bus ride continued on its usual course we naturally picked up my friend Melissa Moore. The bus ride takes around 40minutes to travel from my house to Barker High School. When I got off my bus I met my friend Nick and we walked into the school together. When we entered the school I left Nick because my locker is in another section of the building. After I dropped off all my things I walked back to talk to my friends. I waited with them until the first bell rang. Once the bell rang Shaun, Ben and I all walked down to the Gym. When Gym was over Shaun, Ben and I left and went back to our lockers. I waited for Nick and we went to our next class, which was Band. In Band we were practicing our songs for our concert that was coming up. We had just finished our last song and the bell rang. I walked out of band and I went to my locker and got my things for my next class. After I grabbed my folder for keyboarding I started to run down the halls because I was going to be late for my class. I noticed that all the teachers had there television's on and they were watching the news. I really didn't think anything of it because I was trying to get to class. As the bell was ringing I entered the room and sat down in my normal seat, which was right next to Joe. I looked up at the television because my teacher had it on. I immediately then asked what was going on. She said that two "747's had just crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City. I could not believe what was happening, I thought to my self who would do such evil. As I kept watching the news they were showing the second airplane crashing into the second twin tower. It showed the airplane coming from the east side of the building and when it hit there was a huge explosion. I did not think anything else could happen. Then they said on the news that a third 747 crashed into the side of the Pentagon. By this time mostly every person in our school was absolutely terrified. In my opinion what these people did to our nation was horrific and wrong. Also I think that the people that lost a loved one in this tragedy have it the hardest because they have to wake up every morning and experience the disaster over and over again. 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 story756.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. 2002-06-07 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 168.169.8.37