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 9 months pregnant and I had started my maternity leave on Monday. my husband got up and went to work like normal. At just before 8, my own alarm went off. The ShockJock on the radio said something about a plane and a building in New York. I thought it was a joke, but in a second of panic, I KNEW something was wrong. I got up and turned on the TV. It was all over the news, the first building. At this point, the newscasters weren't even sure what had hit the building. Was it a plane? but surely it couldn't have been a commercial airliner! a small plane? how did it get by radar? a bomb? It was so much confusion. Ofcourse, I was glued to the TV screen with that deep weight in my stomache as the second plane came out of no where. more confusion on the TV. I needed to talk to my husband. We had just moved and didn't have our phone connected yet. I walked to the corner to call him. It was a glorious day outside. Perfect temperature, little fluffy clouds in the sky. The old Polish men on my street sat outside on the steps and smoked their cigars like normal. I wanted to yell at them to get inside! Turn on your TVs and see that the world is changing before our eyes! but I didn't. I called my husband, frantic. He told me to go home and he would send someone over to be with me. Our friend from down the street with his cellphone came over. He didn't want to be alone anyway, he said. We sat on the couch and and speculated what has happening and what would happen. When the towers fell, the two of us were dumbstruck. I think "oh my God" was the only phrase from my lips for an hour. my husband had to work late, logging people off his company's system in NYC. People he wasn't sure were alive or dead. YOu could see it on his face. We spent the next two days together on the couch watching all the coverage and wondering how we could bring a child into this world. My daughter was born on September 29th, 2001. I saved all the newspapers for her. I want her to be able to go back and read what people were thinking and feeling instead of just watching some footage in a history class. 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 story9673.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. 2003-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 205.188.209.8