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. Our daughter called and said, "Turn on the TV" and I did. I asked was it an outside attack and she said yes. She works for a congressman so had the TV on in the office. Later I ran into the street as I heard a loud explosion..it was theplane hitting the Pentagon...most of our neighbors were in the street as well and we were all frightened but ignorant of what had happened. The hardest part came later when I found out that a man I had grown up with, Don Peterson, a lay minister, had been killed on the Pittsburgh plane. NMAH Story: Life Changed Has your life changed because of September 11, 2001? If so, tell us how. I think I value even more each day and our country....it is impossible to believe that Al Quaeda could set out to murder us but they did. I cannot imagine why Bin Ladin didn't help his own people but I guess hate motivated him more than love. I was mostly always patriotic but am much more so now...I did not lose anyone but my friend from childhood Don Peterson but I grieve for those who lost so many more. NMAH Story: Remembered What do you think should be remembered about September 11th? That many of us were murdered by an irrational force called Al Quada...that we need to be vigilant against such extreme muslim sects and other groups..that we need to strengthen our democracy ...for instance through everyone voting at election days. We need to teach more history in our schools. We need to remember how fragile democracy is and how we need to protect it...look how many foreigners want to come to our country....the reason is we are free, but free to not exercise our responsibility as well (viz. to vote)... 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 will fly it always 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 nmah6368.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. 2003-11-22 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 64.12.96.39