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 a senior in high school. I got up that morning, as I had every morning, without any idea that something had happened. I got dressed for school, watching SportsCenter on ESPN. There was nothing about the attacks on ESPN, so I had no idea that anything was wrong. I went to school that morning, listening to a CD in my truck. Once again, I had no idea that anything was wrong. I was sitting in my first period class, when my teacher came running into the room, mumbling something about the World Trade Center and a plane crash. She was hard to understand, but she turned the radio on in the class. That was the first time all day that I had heard anything about the attacks. Then, everyone thought that the crash was just an accident. My teacher was in charge of taking pictures for the yearbook in my school's lunch room, so our class went into the lunch room for the rest of the period. Not 10 minutes after we got into the lunch room, another teacher came running into the room screaming "Another plane has just crashed into tower 2 of the World Trade Center. We are under attack." That is when I realized that our country would never be the same again. All day long, my teachers tried to give us work to do but no work was ever done. Every classroom was clued to a tv or a radio. That afternoon, all planes were grounded. Normally, a few planes flew over our practice football field. On that day no planes flew over, giving off a very strange and odd silence. One small plane flew over our field and within a few minutes, U.S. Air Force Jet planes were escorting the small plane back to the ground. I got home that afternoon and was told by my dad to go and fill my truck up with gas, seeing as how no one had a clue as to exactly what was going to happen. All the way to the gas station, I kept looking into the sky scared to death and wondering if we would see anything like that again. At the gas station, I spent 45 minutes trying to get to a gas pump. Within those 45 minutes, the gas prices went from 1.59 a gallon to 2.10 a gallon. It was the most absurb thing I've ever seen. Thank God a cop was there and forced the station owner to bring the prices back down. All day long I felt that everything that had happened was just a big horrible dream and that I was going to wake up. Sometimes now, I still wonder if it all is just a dream and that I will wake up to find that September 11th never took place. All I can say now is "God Bless America." 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 story10680.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. 2004-07-05 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 152.163.253.9