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 sitting in my Microsoft Word class at Potomac Falls High School when suddenly over the intercom the principal instructed everyone to turn the televisions to channel 7 ABC. At first when I saw the burning building with a plane sticking out of it I thought it was just a movie on TV. It wasn?t until we turned to every channel did we realize what was going on. At first the class room sat in shock and then people started freaking out. After an hour when the next plane hit the pentagon is when things started getting ugly. Classmates were being pulled out of class to go home, students were demanding to leave, and teachers wanted to make phone calls. After a few hours of watching TV the principal came on the intercom and told everyone to turn off their TVs and return to normal. Needless to say no one returned to normal. Everyone around me was talking about how they were afraid that bombs would start dropping or how schools would be the next targets, I just sat in silence. I couldn?t understand how hijacking a plane and flying it into buildings made any sort of statement at all. Only cowards would do such a thing. After school I went to my best friend?s house and decided to crash there for the night. We talked about what we thought was going to happen the next day. Neither of us was scared but we just had that uncertainty of what was to come. The next morning school was canceled so we slept in. When I finally woke up I went out on the balcony and listened. Not a noise was to be heard, and that was unusual for where I live. I live about twenty minutes away from the Dulles Airport and there is always air planes flying by. But there were no air planes in the sky, or many cars on the road, or people on the street. Just people in their homes uncertain of what was next. 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 story9529.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. 2003-09-10 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 152.163.252.131