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 driving to my court appointment at around 8:35 am. It was a normal day. I turned on Q104.3 the New York classic rock station. At 8:45 they started saying that there was an explostion on top of one of the World Trade Center buildings. It didn't phase me a bit. I thought it was just a regular office fire or something like that. Then they just played music like nothing had happened. At 9:05 I got into the courtroom and no one knew what had happened. All of a sudden, a police officer rushes into the room and runs to the judge and whispers something into his ear. The judge tells everyone that there will be a 15 minute recess. I went outside to have a cigarette and my friend Ryan had called my cell phone. "A plane just crashed into the WTC." he says. I couldnt believe it but I told him that I could not talk because I had to go inside. Literaly 45 seconds later, Ryan calls back saying that we have no more World Trade Center. I was in total shock. All I could think of was my brother who lives in Manhattan. I tried calling him but Ryan's phonecall was the last one I made that morning. I went inside the courtroom and the judge had told us all to go home and everyone will have an extended court date. On my drive back I turned on the radio and everyone was so quiet. I came home and had 4 voicemails on my cell phone. Everyone that I went to school with in Albany was asking me if I was ok. I couldn't even call them back to tell them I was fine. I got in contact with my brother and he was ok. My parents were in France at the time so I could not get in touch with them. I watched tv for a little while but I couldnt find any regular programming. Every station had the same picture on it. The towers on fire. It was awful. I just wanted to go and help out in some way but I couldn't. I spent the night by the beach. I had to get away from everything. It was so relaxing during a time so stressful. I knew the second that I got that phonecall from Ryan that everything was going to change. Nothing was the same since. 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 story1281.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. 2002-08-20 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 24.194.95.228 Annotation Annotations to this item. Radio Coverage NY:3