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. My 3 year old son came in to my room to tell me that there was a building on fire on the Sesame Street show. Confused and still groggy from sleeping I came out and recognized that it was one of the towers. I just stood there in disbelief at how a plane could go so off course and hit the building. That was when I saw the second plane hit. My son was asking what was wrong and my 1 year old daughter had just woke up. I changed the channel to a more kid friendly program and went in to my bedroom to wake my husband up and tell him what was happening. My husband is a Auxilary Police officer here in NY and immediately was called to work. The whole rest of the day and night was spent with him out patrolling the streets and possible target sites while I sat home clutching my 2 children. I had found out on Sept 9th that I was pregnant with our 3rd child. While sitting there listening and watching everything that was happening on teh news and radio I couldn't help crying and feeling such a great loss for all those innocent people. But I also realized then what kind of world my children were about to grow up in. NMAH Story: Life Changed Has your life changed because of September 11, 2001? If so, tell us how. 9-11-00 has changed my life in many ways. I am afraid to fly on airplanes, but will still do so eventually. I realize that when I grew up we didn't even know about terrorists and what we may have heard was about things that happened in OTHER countries... not the USA. My children won't be able to feel that way. They will grow up wondering if we will get attacked. My life has changed in ways I did not realize until recently. So many ways emotionally that I can not even begin to explian. NMAH Story: Remembered What do you think should be remembered about September 11th? I think the way the US pulled together during the worst crisis we have ever encountered is something that no one will ever forget. Many people gave their lives to help save the lives of other people. America truely has a giving caring nature, and no one can ever change that. 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, we put up our flag and have not taken it down since. I was never a person to really show pride for America in the past but now I am very proud to be an American. 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 nmah4737.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. 2002-09-12 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 152.163.188.168