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 at home on maternity leave having just had my daughter three weeks earlier. I was rocking my beautiful baby girl and was watching the Today Show on NBC. They were showing the WTC and one of the towers was smoking. Katie Couric was saying that there was a fire of some kind at the World Trade Center. I called my friend Mary and told her to turn on the television because something horrible was going on...all of those people above the fire floors were trapped. We were asking each other how those people would get out when the announcers said that it was believed that a plane flew into the building! "How off must that pilot have been to fly into a building! There must have been a malfunction!" As we are saying this - live on television - a second plane flies into the second tower. This is no accident! I was not comprehending that it was a second plane. I thought that maybe they had some footage of what had happened to the first tower and they were showing it in replay...but no...this is not that tower, it's the other one...what is going on??? I didn't get it at first. Then, "Oh my God! Mary, what just happened here?" We both started to cry. We had just witnessed hundreds of people die. We didn't see their faces, we didn't know there names, we didn't see their physical demise...but we felt it! We felt the pain and the shock and the horror and the disbelief. My father was in high school the day that JFK was assassinated. He wrote about the kids, the mood, the astonishment at the realization that their world had just changed. He remembers that day and exactly where he was. I remember exactly what I was doing and where I was when the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK was bombed. I will remember that day. And, I will remember this one as well. My son was 9 when his world changed from an impenetrable nation to a vulnerable one. He will remember. My daughter was 3 weeks old, she will never know the world of "no fear." I pray that they will always know a world of hope. 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 story6932.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. 2002-09-12 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 67.1.215.182