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: Andrew Alt Per. 5 5/23/02 9/11 September 11 It all started 9/11/01 in New York City at about 8:48a.m Eastern Time. I was in school during period 3 and everyone was taking notes from Miss Kersch. We heard that two airliners crashed right into the World Trade Center and killed a lot of people. There was a third plane that hit the Pentagon and a fourth plane that crashed into a cornfield in Pennsylvania. The plane that crashed in Pennsylvania did so because the passengers were able to take control over the plane. The passengers did this because they knew they were probably going to crash into a building and kill many people. When the planes hit the World Trade Center they acted as a bomb and put a hole right through the buildings causing a big explosion. A couple hours after the planes went into the Towers, they started to collapse. The weird thing is that the second tower that was hit fell first and the tower that was hit first fell last. We did not do anything in school that day except watch the television to be kept updated on what was happening in Washington, the Pentagon, New York City and Pennsylvania. The planes that went into the buildings in New York and Washington reminded us about Pearl Harbor. At Pearl Harbor, Japanese suicide bombers had planes crash into the United States Naval Base and we entered World War 2. The terrorists who did these attacks were trained in schools paid by Bin Ladin. Bin Ladin is the leader of the terrorist group and a Fundamentalist. They hijacked these planes because they were told that they would have a better chance to get to heaven with Allah. These terrorists could be waiting for the signal to strike us again. They have threatened us for many of years because they hate us. They hate us because they are a Muslim nation and we are a Christian nation. We will never be afraid of them because we have a lot of pride and we are very strong. Ever since the terrorist attacks, our country has been in a state of shock. We have lost so many innocent people and were not even expecting it. The day the incident happened, President George W. Bush said that we were probably going to go to war. That day there were many sad people and they were hoping that their family had made it out of the burning buildings. Almost every telivison station had pictures of all the damage. From what I could see, it looked like it was a movie or just a nightmare. There was a hole in the Pentagon where the airplane went right into the side of the Pentagon. After the World Trade Towers fell down, there was a lot of the shattered remains on the ground and there were over 3,000 people that died. Now, almost nine months later, our country is still recovering from this incident. All of the rubble has been cleaned up, but the memory of that day will be with Americans for a long time. 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 story748.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. 168.169.8.133