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: I was rushing to work that day. I had just dropped my 5 month old son off at daycare. Traffic was horrible and I had to be at a 8:00 am (CST) staff meeting. Our department was planning to have a brainstorming session to help us establish our 12 month goals. I was running late due to the heavy traffic and took a different exit thinking it would be faster - but it wasn't! Anyway, I had a local radio station on and the DJ said, "What the he__!!! Did you see that - a plane just hit the World Trade Center! He was reporting about it in disbelief when just minutes later - he said - Oh my God! The other tower has been hit! What is going on?? By this time I was at my parking ramp in downtown Minneapolis. They were still trying to piece together what was going on - at first I thought these were probably small Cessna planes or something - but then they said they were both commercial airliners!! I began walking to my office through our downtown skyway system, and called my husband at his office. He had just been in a conference room where there was a television and he saw everything and said this is terrorism. I remember immediately feeling frightened and sick to my stomach. He said the people working in those towers above where the planes hit would not be able to make it out. I got to my office - and found that 3 of my coworkers were also running late to this meeting. I recall as people in the office heard what had happened that there were gasps of disbelief and fear. Everyone was trying to log on to the internet, but the servers were so slow you couldn't get on. We tried to find a television, but couldn't locate one. When all my department coworkers got to work, we realized none of us were going to be able to concentrate on goal setting - it seemed so trivial all of a sudden. I just had this yearning desire to go to my infant son and hold him and hug him and protect him from all of this. Within the hour, a meeting was called and we were told that our building was being evacuated. We are in a high rise and very close to Minneapolis' tallest building, IDS Center, and they were evacuating that building and others around it for safety reasons. At that time, there were other planes that were in the air, unaccounted for, and potentially could be striking other metropolitan areas. I called my daycare provider, who was weeping - her son was scheduled to leave for the Marine Corps that very day. She was already having a hard time 'letting go' of him and then this had to happen, and she was afraid that now he is going to be serving in a war effort. I left work and went and picked up my son. We went home and I held him and loved him and I had this undying thirst to watch whatever I could on television. It was all so horrible I could not stop crying. I looked at my beautiful and innocent son and cried for him and this world that my husband and I brought him into. Would it ever be the same? What will his life be like? How can we protect him from evil? I thought and prayed for all the people in New York City and all those that lost loved ones or didn't know where their loved ones were. It was a day when material things or wealth did not matter - just having your loved ones close by was enough. I will never forget 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 story3255.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. 63.113.151.30