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 pastor a small church in Westport, MA, and also do computer consulting work from home, often working all night. I'd only been asleep a few hours when the phone rang the morning of Sept. 11--my son, calling from his job as cook in a retirement center. He told me a fantastic story about a plane crashing into the WTC, and I guessed a small plane. He told me it was a passenger plane. I refused to believe it...what professional pilot couldn't miss a building that big? Someone must pulling a hoax. He told me it was on the television and I should listen--but being sleep-deprived, I groggily said "Later, I will," and hung up. I said a prayer for all who were caught up in whatever was happening, sank back into sleep. It can have been only a few minutes before my "semi-son," who stays with us, called from his workplace. His voice was excited, urgent--"Ma! Wake up and turn on the tv! Two planes hit the WTC! We're being attacked!" That woke me up. Turning on CNN, I saw the horrible pictures now so familiar to all of us, and felt sickened. Just one week earlier my son and his girlfriend had returned from a European trip. I'd dropped them off at Logan Airport, and picked them up there--with horrible premonitions of an airline crash. For months, each time I looked at an airplane, I "saw" it covered by lines as if it had been torn apart and pieced back together. I chided myself for my premonitions, but was so relieved when they were safely off the plane! That day I called the firm in Cambridge I'd been doing extra work for and told them I wouldn't be in...I needed to be at my church. I started making contact with parishioners, to hold a 7 PM prayer service. I found that one of our Westport mothers, not a member of our church but connected through her daughter to church members, was a flight attendant on American Airlines 11, and was missing. Diane Snyder died that day when her plane crashed into the WTC. The MA Conference of the United Church of Christ had liturgies and prayers posted as resources for churches and pastors by that afternoon, which was a blessing. The following weeks have been difficult--no less so for pastors, as we struggled to deal with our own sense of loss and the enormity of raw evil exposed that day, while still seeking and offering the love and peace that faith should untimately embrace. We endure, and may God turn and transform even this evil into something that might point toward the good. 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 story262.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. 2002-03-17 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 65.96.116.187 Annotation Annotations to this item. Personal connection to someone at site Premonitions/Coincidence/Fate Religion DOMESTIC