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: The Morning of Sept. 11 was trhe same as all the rest, get up, go to work, but when the radio broke in and told what had just happened, my partner and myself(we own a siding business in northern WI) stopped what we were doing, and just stared at the radio, almost glued to it,I had the most awful sickness way down deep,almost hard to describe,all I could think of was,"WHAT NEXT" when we got home that day, and I saw the pictures on T.V. I just cried ( I suppose I should mention that I am a volunteer Firefighter/EMT so it really hit home) and for the next three days I couldn't help but think"I need to do something more than what i'm doing here" and on Sunday the 16th myself and 3 members of our Dept. and 1 from a neighboring Dept. made the trek to NY with the help of the local car dealerships in the area, we got a free rental car, and $700.00 cash to go out there,it took 18 1/2 hours to drive straight out to manhattanas we got closer to the GW bridge I felt my stomach knot up like nothing I ever felt before.We all stayed on the U.S.S. Comfort at pier 94, and worked for the Red Cross down at ground zero for the week doing everything from sorting clothes to giving the workers down there basic first aide, and eye washes to relieve some of the pain from all the dust down there,I would rather not get into the details of what we all saw down there, you can probably just figure that part out on your own. I still think about the whole experiance like it just happened yesterday, and sometimes just can't help but shed a tear just because, it will be with me fore the rest of my life, but I wouldn't have done it any other way, I was planning on going out there for the one year anniversary, but lack of funding will not allow it, so I think i will just spend the day reflecting on it all, and being greatful to GOD and my family that we live in the greatest place on earth. Always remember where you came from, and NEVER FORGET to love eatch other always, because you never know, tomorrow may be too late! GOD BLESS.... 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 story1040.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. 2002-08-17 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 66.191.57.94 Annotation Annotations to this item. Ground zero- at or about Firefighters Rescue/clean-up workers/volunteers Patriotism DOMESTIC