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'm not American, I'm European . I remember clearly what I was doing on 09/11. first sorry for my English, my native tongue is French. I was working at my office. The radio is always on, I can't work without it. I had a smoke and was looking at the window. There was a breaking news. The reporter said an accident happened in New-York. a Plane crashed into a building. I travel a lot for my work, I visited New-York 5 times. I was anxious. New-York is truly one of the most beautiful achievments of mankind. In some ways capital of the western civilization. I went back to my computer and tried to surf on cnn.com. I thought we had an internet problem, I wasn't able to access it. I tried foxnews.com, nytimes.com even washingtonpost.com. All of them were unreachable. I was anxious. Something important was happening on earth. After long minutes, finally I saw cnn.com on my screen. Just one page. I don't remember the text but I remember the picture: twin towers were burning. The biggest city of the western civilization was under attack. People like me were running on the street. Men and women like me covered by dust from head to toes were running away from hell. I called my brother. I told him that New-York was under attack. I thought about Pearl Harbour and told him that World War III had just begun. I know it sounds silly. My brother is my closest friend. We help each other and we like to spend free times together. he turned his radio on. "That's crasy", that's all he said. Nobody in his office knew about it. My employee was asking here mother to turn her TV on. I heard that people were falling from the twin towers. I couldn't believe this. When a couple of hours later, I saw it on my TV. I'm 6'1'' guy, I'm a hard worker, I made a company from scratch, I'm not easely impressed . I felt tears on my eyes. I still remember some faces. I remember especially a firefighter sitting on a rock and crying. Tears were falling on his dusty chest. Thousand of miles away, on mine too. Two days after, I bought flowers for the Brussels American Embassy: for American kids who had lost a mom or a dad during that tragic event. 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 story8676.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. 2002-11-25 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 194.88.113.86