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: Bearing Witness to History" Stories Submitted Online Description An account of the resource Visitors to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's, "Bearing Witness to History" online exhibition submitted these reflections beginning in 2002. NMAH Story NMAH Story: Story How did you witness history on September 11th? Share your experience. On that fateful day, I woke up, got dressed for school, and left. There was nothing special, it was a typical Tuesday. When I got to school and tried to last through two periods of Chemistry, cause it was an "A" day. When I went to English, this kid Carl kept getting up, in tears, he was being consouled by all the teachers, and no one knew why. Then we heard, we learned that at 8:48 am, while I was learning about the chemical composition of something, America was under attack. When I went to Choraliers, that's 4th and 5th periods, The Vredenburgs walked in crying, the told us, that the world trade centers twin towers were gone...gone. And that the Pentagon was hit too. We sat in disbelief, how could two of the largest buildings in the state, just, be gone. When we went to lunch a few of my friends and i went to the history wing, we watched for the first time, the towers falling, shattering like glass on a cold day. It was bone-chilling experience. Then we went to spanish, the teacher read an announcement trying to hold back what everyone that day was feeling, a feeling of insecurity. For the rest of the day, we watched over and over the towers coming down, the Pentagon in flame, it seemed for many weeks that the world was coming apart at the seams. When I got home I watched again, and again, the towers coming down, I felt like MSNBC was the only station that worked, it was a feeling of wanting to know any new information if it was there. It was wanting to know, why. What did we do, what did we say, that would make a nation hate us, the I realized its not a nation, its a rebel group of people, and its not just us they hate, the don't like anyone. For 2 weeks straight, I had the same schedule, come home, and watch the news. NMAH Story: Life Changed Has your life changed because of September 11, 2001? If so, tell us how. Yes. I take nothing for granted anymore, life is sacred. NMAH Story: Remembered What do you think should be remembered about September 11th? Remember the people, remember the emotion, most of all, remember the day, what you were doing when it happened, remember how you felt, and how it was to see the horrible images from NYC. Stir that emotion occasionally, if you don't then you will forget what it was like, and all the american pride you felt, was just because everyone else was feeling it too. NMAH Story: Flag Did you fly an American flag after the events of September 11th? Have your feelings about the American flag changed as a result of September 11th? Yeah, it was in a way all some of us could do, it wasnt helping in the phyical sense. But you know all those volenteers at Ground Zero saw a nation come together, and they were encouraged to work harder. 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 nmah136.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. 2002-08-14 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 152.163.201.212