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. I had waken up at around 8 o' clock to go to my math class, I had been attending Virginia Commonwealth University. The class was supposed to be over at around 9, but I left the class early because I was hungry and it was such a beautiful day. I got back to my room, where my roommate was sleeping, at about a little after 8:45, and turned on the Today show. It was showing a picture of the first World Trade Center smoking. I thought, like Katie Couric had said that something had exploded inside the World Trade Center, until, in horror, I saw the other plane crash right into the other tower. At this point, I was dumbfounded, I woke my roommate up, woke my neighbors up, called as much family as possible to get them to know what had happened. Unfortunately, it didn't end there, once I learned about the explosion at the pentagon, I immediately called my parents, because they work very close to where it is to make sure they were all right, I mean, at the time I was hearing stories of car bombs, explosions, and other such things happening all over D.C. so I was very worried, I was also worried for my two aunts, one works in the State Dept., the other works two blocks from the White House, so I tried to reach them, unfortunately by that time, everyone with a cell phone had picked it up and was calling to make sure all their family was alright. NMAH Story: Life Changed Has your life changed because of September 11, 2001? If so, tell us how. I don't think my life has changed that much, the only thing that has really changed is my view that I need to live my live to its absolute fullest, because nobody knows whats going to happen tommorrow, so do all you can do, and never live your life thinking that you'll life forever. NMAH Story: Remembered What do you think should be remembered about September 11th? I think, that the thing that need to be remembered most, are the people. We should put plaques all around the area of the trade centers showing a picture and a little story about each person who died, so their deaths will be remembered 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? Yes, I have always felt patriotic towards the flag, but I would still support people's right to burn it in an expression of protest. 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 nmah2085.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. 128.172.212.111