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 September 11th, I arrived to school in the morning. The hallways were filled with laughter and socializing. I thought it was going to be another regular day. During English class, my teacher sent me and Katie upstairs to the computer lab to type up the reports. While we were typing up the reports, we heard a loud echo from the speaker . It was somebody who was announcing something through the speaker. Katie asked me "what did he say?" I said "I have no idea, I'm sure it's nothing important." I continued typing up the report and ignored the speaker. Katie and I are hearing impaired, so we didn't know what was going on. Katie became concerned, so she went to ask one of the students in the computer lab. The student told her there was a plane crash. I thought it was odd that someone from the speaker to inform the whole school about the plane crash even though the plane crashes all the time. Katie left the computer lab and headed back downstairs to check what was going on. I just assumed that it was nothing anyway. When I was on my way back to my English class, I saw my English teacher was sitting outside of the classroom trying to get ahold of someone. She looked like she had been crying for some reasons. I began to have this gut feeling that something was fishy. When I arrived into the classroom, I heard people chatting from the distance with the sound of excitement. I didn't expect them to be all that excited and they were surrounding me. They all exclaimed "There was a plane crash." I said "So? It happens all the time time." They said "No, no, no the plane hit the twin towers." I said "Oh accident happens." They said "NO, they did it on PURPOSE." It totally hit me. I said "Whoa, wait a minute, what did you mean by on "purpose?"" They explained to me that there were terrorists from another country hit the twin towers while there were other passengers on the plane. I was shocked to hear about it. I looked out to the window and looked up to the sky. At the last minute, I felt the chills coming through my spine. I knew this was a really serious situation . I have seen all the students walking down the hall talking about it with their horrified look on their faces. The whole school was talking about it. When I arrived to the graphics class everybody were sitting quietly and listening to the news on the radio. My interpreter was interpreting. The news was heartbreaking. My class took the situation very seriously. all of a sudden I felt so unsafe because the war had just begun. After this happened, I have seen the news on TV talking about it everyday. I have seen various flags outside of people's homes including on their cars too. I heard so many horrifying stories about what happened to those people who were the witnesses of the twin towers. I'll never forget that day of my life. NMAH Story: Life Changed Has your life changed because of September 11, 2001? If so, tell us how. NMAH Story: Remembered What do you think should be remembered about September 11th? 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? 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 nmah2263.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. 2002-09-10 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 68.116.160.14