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: On September 11, 2001 when the first plane hit the World Trade Center in New York I was on my way to school. By the time I heard a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center both planes had hit and I think the third one had hit the Pentagon. I found out about all of this in my second period Math class. No really had talked about it before school or during first period. When I heard that this happened in my second period I was shoked. I never really had knew about terrorism before this day. When I got to my second period class my Math teacher was watching the news and all I saw was a buch of smoke and two buildings on fire. I asked him what had happened he told me that two planes crashed into the World Trade Center. For the rest of the class time we sat there and watched the news. As I was listening to the news they mentioned that another plane had crashed into the Pentagon and I was shoked even more. All sorts of thoughts were going through my head. Why would someone do this? What's going to happen next? What are we going to do about this? Are we going to go to War? The biggest question that went through my head was I thought my country was invisible and the strongest country in the world-how could this happen to us? As I continued to watch and listen to the news they kept showing the two planes hitting the Twin Towers and estimating how many were dead and how many people would probably die. This just shoked me even more. I look over to my friend and said, "This is insane." I really never knew much about the World Trade Center before this day. I was so stunned that it really didn't affect me that day. I didn't know what to think. As the day went on, in most of my classes, if teachers didnt talk about it, they gave us a free day to talk about it with our friends. Most of the teachers seemed as stunned as we were and didn't dicuss it. MY history teacher asked what we thought if the event. He also asked the class what we thought the government was going to do about it. He asked us questions, if we were the President what would we do about it? Would we go to war? One thing I found interesting and it made me think was my teacher told us that this would be in the History books in the next four years or so. Our kids would be learning about this and asking us what happened and we would have to tell them. This event was something you could not make sense of or push out of your thoughts. People were talking about it or watching the news. I was so shocked I tried not to think about it. T.V. replayed the planes hitting the Twin Towers over and over. The death toll kept growing. So many everyday, ordinary people. After school. some friends and I decided to hang around and find a small place and we just prayed about it. One year later, I am still praying about it 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 story8268.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. 2002-10-02 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 209.79.81.231