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 getting the kids ready for school when the phone rang. It was my sister, Rachael who also lives in Denver. A red flag was raised in my mind - she never called in the morning before... She asked if I had heard yet and I didn't know what she was talking about. She simply said, "Turn on the news." And there it was, that image of the first tower smoking. I couldn't wrap my head around what I was seeing - how the heck could some idiot run a plane into the Twin Towers in broad daylight?? And on such a clear day... Moments passed before the horror of what I was seeing actually sunk in - it is rush hour there - oh my God - so many people - I woke my husband and hung up with my sister. Jerry is a native New Yorker, born and raised in Brooklyn. We had moved to Denver the year before. His whole family lived there and my brother and his family lived there. As we watched, as the whole world watched, the second plane hit and we immediately knew that we were under attack. Where is everyone?? Is my mom in NY on business this week? My brother works just a couple blocks from there, so does Jerry's uncle. His sister lives down there, and where does his other sister work? His oldest daughter used to work in the WTC... We desperately started calling, somehow we got through to Bobby's office - someone answered - he wasn't there yet. That was it - we couldn't get through to anyone else. So we waited and watched the terror unfold on our TV. The buildings fell and we sobbed, unbelieving that this could be happening. I actually took the kids to school and went to work. I am a family doctor and figured my patients might need me. At the office we put TVs in the nursing stations and we all sat around them just watching. I kept making frantic phone calls and eventually found out that somehow we had been blessed - Our family members were okay. As I would hear over the next weeks it was close for several, but everyone was out and physically unscathed. None of us escaped emotionally unscathed. 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 story3744.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. 65.101.228.88