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: On September 10th, 2001 I buried my father. His death was sudden and quite unexpected. I had held up rather well under the circumstances but my heart was broken and grief had overwhelmed me. Because I was executor of his estate, my first duty on September 11th was to go to my lawyer's office for help in settling his estate. I had gotten up pretty early and went out on my front porch for a smoke. As I was sitting there, a neighbor boy ran from the house across the street from me to another house screaming "Those $%@!^&*'s they have blown up the building." I didn't pay him any mind because he never made much sense to me anyway. I went on out to my lawyer's office and in the course of the conversation, she said, "In light of what has happened to our country today, you need to think of your financial future." I was puzzled at this comment and asked what she meant. She gave me the bad news about the attack and I was paralyzed with disbelief. Then I remembered my neighbor's ranting as he ran across the street earlier in the morning. That is what he was talking about. I finished my business with the lawyer and went to consumer credit to conductmore of my Dad's unfinished business. When I walked in the door there were no employees in the front office. They were all huddled around a small television in a private area for employees only. I disregarded the partition separating the TV room from the front office and found myself watching in horror with them. They hadn't even noticed that I didn't belong there. As we watched the second tower being struck I remember thinking "This is not a movie - those are real people in that plane and in that building". Suddenly, my thoughts turned to the lose of my Dad and the grief I felt at his unexpected death. My own fears and feelings seemed so small in comparision to what my fellow countrymen were experiencing in New York City. I remember trying to put myself in the place of those people running so hard down the streets away from the smoke and choking dust that chased them when the towers fell. I tried to imagine how it would feel to know I was going to die in those planes in just a few minutes'time. It was not imaginable. The world as I know it changed that day. I was joined in my personal grieving by thousands who lost loved ones and millions who watched helplessly as our great nation was attacked. Today, September 11, 2002, as we remembered the events of last year, tears flowed openly as our radio stations played songs written about bravery, God in the stairwells, last kisses goodbye and a proud nation filled with grief for the loss of those we have never met. School children gathered to remember our "real heros" - the public servants who risk their lives for others every day. Business people all over America wore red, white and blue and drove to work with their headlights shining. We won't soon forget this sad day in history when America woke up and realized how precious is our way of life and how much we love our country. 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 story5743.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. 2002-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 216.128.136.19