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: We were on our "annual" vacation to Myrtle Beach, SC, from our home in Central Ohio. We'd arrived in MB Sunday, September 9th; Tuesday, September 11, 2001 began as all our other vacation mornings: we woke, ate breakfast and prepared to head down to the beach. We typically don't turn the television or radio on in the morning -- our vacations "shut out" the outside world. But that morning, I grabbed our little itty bitty "mini boom box" to take to the beach, thinking we'd listen to the radio, oldies, talk radio, whatever. On the way down, two women in the elevator were talking, "This means war," and we had no idea what they were talking about. After setting up the beach blanket, etc., my husband started tossing the baseball to our boys, then ages 6 and 4. I sat on the beach blanket, enjoying the sun, and turned on the radio. As I sat, the story of what was happening in New York and Washington unfolded before my mind via a little 2" speaker, sitting on a blanket on the soft, sun-warmed sand of Myrtle Beach, miles and miles south of all the horror. I watched my family, cheerfully tossing a baseball back and forth, heard the gulls above, the crash of the ocean waves mixed with the sounds of awe, horror, sheer terror and screams coming out of the radio. Needless to say, we spent a lot more time that vacation watching the news, shooing the boys to the other room to watch Nickelodeon, than we ever would have. I tried hard as ever not to cry that week. I succeeded until after we'd returned from our "vacation". I feel my crying and watching news had an effect on our 4-year-old, who, after that exhibited some interesting personality quirks, which were new to him. I ached, and still do, for all those in NY and Washington, all the victims and their families. I revisit the web sites, the video sites, often. I will never forget what happened that day. 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 story9378.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. 2003-07-19 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 206.148.92.158