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: Oh what a sad day that will always be etched into my memory. Eventhou, I live so far away from New York, I still felt it here in Lindale Texas. I work in a middle school with 5th and 6th graders and I had just gone to the office and the secretary and other office ladies were all standing around with the radio on and the expressions on their faces were of devastation,looking with shocked looks as well. And I said "what are yall doing? You look like someone died or something"? One of the ladies said haven't you heard, and another lady said "How would she, she has been in the classroom." Then thats when they told me the news and they didn't want the students to hear about it yet so thats why they were also acting so strange. Usually our office ladies and teachers are always laughing and just having the best time like this isn't even a job were at! They told me about the first tower and it had just happened and I thought to myself "this is it". I came back to my classroom and turned on the radio to listen to as much as I could. When it was my lunch time at 11:00 I went home and turned on the T.V. and I couldn't believe my eyes. It was the most awful scene I had ever seen and the second tower had been hit already. Needless to say I didn't eat any lunch after that felt like I was numb. It broke my heart, it was so devastating. When I got back to school you could feel something in the air, it was quite and that's not normal at our school.Parent's were coming and picking up their kid's and so the students were starting to hear about it. They were scared and everyone was so very confused. What a world we live in that someone can just take so many lives and their own like it was nothing! I wrote a little poem that is hung in our school along with hundred's of our students work hanging up about Sept. 11th, 2001. Here is my poem: Heroes... Do you have one? The meaning of the word hero has always remained the same. Yet our youth of today would say differently, Are WE to blame? There were many on that Sept.11th That I would call HEROIC. They risked their lives for others; Others that will NEVER know it. It will take along time, for us to heal. Some may never; If any EVER will. The world will never be the same, Yet to our enemies,taking another's life was like they were playing a video game! We WILL stand together, Hand in hand; They will NEVER take away our Freedom, And they cannot take away our land. Well, that was what I wrote but really there are no words to express what I feel about all those innocent people who lost their lives and the ones that risked their own to save another. I wear two dog tags one is red with a firefighters name on it and it is red and the other is a policeman with his name on it and that dog tag is blue. I say prayers as I wear them for all, both the people, the heroes, and all the families that are are suffering from their loses. I also say a prayer for our enemies because we must somehow "Forgive them, for they not know what they do! 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 story5527.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. 2002-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 66.76.66.114