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 wrote this on Sept 12 and sent it to a group of online friends. Reading it again now, my eyes fill with tears like it was all yesterday. My heart breaks for those so profoundly impacted by the events of September 11, 2001. ________________________________________ I just need to share this with everyone. I am having so much trouble handling all of this. Just when I think I have it together, I see or hear a story so personal, so painful, that it is all I can do keep from breaking down again. I was a Marine. I am a strong man fully capable of controlling my emotions. But this devastation is so pervasive, so incidious, so horrid that I feel like my heart cannot possibly contain it all. Yesterday, in an instant, someone's entire world was destroyed. A young man, perhaps, already missing his wife or partner, wishing the flight that took them away would hurry home. Instead, in a moment of horror, he watched his most significant other vanish in a ball of flame and debris and hate. In a flash, more than a plane disappeared. Gone was the promise to "see you soon." Gone were a million secrets shared between them... the private joke about the loud waiter... the song they danced to last weekend at that corner bar... the color they planned to paint the kitchen. Across town, a Mom sat stunned. Below her, her children played, oblivious to the thief that had slipped in and stolen their happiness. They are too young to understand, you see. But in the years to come, they will fully come to appreciate the horror of this day. The damage to their lives will be done not in a flash, but in the sadness of days to come. "Your Dad would have been so proud of you," Mom will say at every important event. And the tears will flow again, a wound as raw and jagged as the moment it was inflicted. These are just some of the thoughts that are tearing me to pieces right now. I feel so much pain, like the very fabric of our souls have begun to unravel. I know we will recover. I know we will find peace again, and happiness. Right now, though, those things seem like some impossible dream. Thanks for letting me ramble - John 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 story1147.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. 2002-08-19 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 12.22.204.1 Annotation Annotations to this item. Internet DOMESTIC Sep 11- Sep 21, 2001 Notes Notes about this item. Move to emails