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 day hadn't started out well for me at all. First, I was wearing a new pair of shoes that had already chafed the skin off of my heels. Painful. I underestimated the time it would take to get to work, and ended up being fifteen minutes late. I was exasperatingly shy, so it took me another five minutes to get up the courage to actually ask for my boss. Luckily for me she wasn't too mad. So I hit the grindstone, feeling the day might actually be of some use. At 9:15, we were called to a staff meeting. Typical, happened every day, I was assured. But it also meant walking the entire length of the mall to get to the other half of the store. (Long story). So we walk past the guy who runs the newspaper stand. He looks up and says almost casually, "Hey, didja hear the news?" We hadn't, so he lowers his voice dramatically. "Planes hit the Twin Towers. They're gone, destroyed." It took me a moment to remember what the Twin Towers were, before my mind treated me to a flash of just about every picture I'd seen of the World Trade Center. Hard to believe anything could put a dent in those things. This was a joke, and a rather nasty one, it had to be. But the entire staff of the store was talking about it when we arrived for the meeting. Low, urgent voices. "Have they found survivors?"..."Who did it?"..."They hit the Pentagon, too?" The staff rooms were always crowded when I took my morning break and my lunch break, with the radios tuned to news channels. As far away as British Columbia, Canada, the shock of Sept. 11 was being felt. I remember working all day in a haze, eager to get home and see what this was about. For the next week, I stared transfixed at any TV screen that featured the Towers - which was all of them - as they burned. It just seemed impossible to knock down those buildings. And to try and think of how many people died...no, that was just too much. Now, September 11, 2004 approaches. The TV is laden with documentaries about the attacks. I've watched the towers fall too many times already, yet it's impossible to look away. This year, hopefully, the people who died on 9/11 will not be forgotten. 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 story10793.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. 2004-09-08 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 68.144.71.48