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: It was an original day in Gasport or at least I thought it was. I was having a great day. Everything was going great. Nothing so far had gone wrong. I went to Global Studies with Mrs. Capen and I sat down. We started class as usual and the she got a phone call. When she hung up the phone she was in shock. She rushed over to the television and turned it CNN on and I thought it was another of those boring movies about "if this happened" or just a weird kind of stunt thing. It wasn't. The attack on America was real happening right now. I couldn't believe my eyes. When the second plane hit the towers I was in Global Studies with my teacher Mrs.Capen. All of my friends were completely in shock, and so was I. It was a very sad for New York City and our country. At 8:48 A.M American Fight 11 hit the first tower. Then at 9:03 A.M Fight 175 hit the second tower. Our class watched the second plane hit the second tower live. The two World Trade Centers were hit and burning in the sky. There was smoke and people running around no one knew what to do. Then at 9:48 A.M Flight 77 dove right in to the Pentagon in Washington D.C. I remember seeing the Pentagon probably about five months ago on a family trip. Then another important news flash came on at 10:10 A.M United Airline Flight 93 was also hijacked and crashed in a field in Somerset, Pennsylvania. Shortly afterward the South Tower collapsed. While I watched the tower go down, I felt very sad because of all those people who were probably stuck in the towers and could not get safely out like some others. After a couple minutes went by the North Tower collapsed and the same thing went through my mind. I was in school all day while this was happening. I was also kind of scared because we have a power plant right next to our community called A.E.S. The power plant was having a type of lock down, where they have policemen all over the place and no one was allowed to leave the plant for 24-hours unless it was an emergency. Many people think of this attack as a live "Pearl Harbor 2," because it was a surprise attack that killed many, many people. Except this time we were not listening to the attack on radio, we were watching the whole thing LIVE on television. I couldn't believe my eyes this actually happened, and it may happen again in the near future (which I hope not!). What happened on September 11, 2002 will change my life forever. I hope that when kids hear about the attack they will not think of it as a stupid event that happened. They should actually try to understand what happened and how every one felt. It is going to be a new part of our history for future generations to learn about, but I had to go through it first hand. 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 story757.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. 2002-06-07 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 168.169.8.134 Notes Notes about this item. under-aged NY