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 in the shower, getting ready for work. My husband came into the bathroom, saying, "hey, are you listening to the news?" (we have a radio in the shower) - "what is this about the tower in New York and some plane crash?" I didn't know what he was talking about - but it could have been anything. We had been fighting for a few days, and I wasn't in the best mood. I said, "I don't know..." By the time I came out of the bathroom with a towel on my wet hair, he was standing in the middle of the living room watching the news - one of the towers had been hit. How awful, a plane that went awry, a bad accident. "what happened?" I said, still feeling removed. As we watched, the other plane came slicing through the sky, and that moment - that horrible moment that I'll never forget for the rest of my life - when that plane disappeared - making the silhouette of its now ruined frame in the body of the building and bursting out the other side in a black belch of horror. The orange flame, the black smoke - my gasp - the shock. My husband and I, both 24 years of age, innocent, looking at each other in disbelief - I don't ever remember feeling so forlorn, lost, strange. No one in the entire world could answer my question at that moment - why? I was afraid and I wanted someone to hold me. I got online right away and found my best friend online - my friend in New York. We started calling our other friends in New York. As we sat watching, word came of the plane at the Pentagon. That's when I lost it. Our country. My life. My home. They are going to take it all away. Where is my president? Where is my family? What is happening? I called my boss - we work with international students at a university - he said to come as soon as I could pull myself together, because we had a lot to do - we needed to find the students. I cried all the way to work, listening to the confused news reporters on the radio - no one knowing what to say, how to interpret what was happening. They just kept saying it over and over, "Again, apparently two hijacked planes have crashed into the world trade centers in New York, and an unconfirmed third crash has occurred at the Pentagon..." shock in their voices. When I arrived at work, televisions were on everywhere. Everyone stood with the same look in their eyes. Five of us stood around the doorway in my office watching - and when the towers started to collapse, we were beyond being able to speak. I felt like a child - looking for the adult in the room who could explain. But we were all doing the same thing. I broke later in the morning and sobbed on my colleague's shoulder. We called in the Arab students and told them to stay close to us - we didn't want them to experience any retribution. I can't write any more right now. 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 story664.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. 2002-05-22 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 159.242.151.110