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: This is a small journal that I kept during my school day. Tuesday, September 11th 2001. 12:14 pm. Right now America is under attack. In New York City the World Trade Centers were attacked at 8:45 this morning. Two of our own planes, commercial airplanes attacked them. Each plane hit a tower, killing thousands of innocent civilians that were just thinking that today was just another day and it turned out like this. This is just so scary. Then at 9:40 am a plane hit the Pentagon also. On the news they said it knocked out the 4th, 5th,and 6th wing of the building. My friend April's aunt lives in that area to. I hope she's all right. I'm not sure of the exact time but I think at 9:50 am the South tower of the World Trade Centers began to fall. Thirty-nine minutes at 10:29 am, the North tower collapsed. News broadcasters say they aren't sure exactly why they collapsed, either structural problems or maybe even a bomb. As I watched this on television. I saw so many people jumping from their office windows. Jumping to their death seconds before the building would come crashing down. It's just so horrible. Every airport in America is shut down, just in case there are any more hijackings. At 10:10 am the final doomed airplane crashed into Somerset, Pennsylvania. By lunchtime at 11:30 am many of my fellow peers spread rumors that the plane was meant to hit our Power Plant here in Somerset, New York, which scared me, even though I didn't believe it, the thought was just there. The White House and other major political buildings in Washington D.C. were evacuated. The United Nations in New York, Sears Tower in Chicago and Walt Disney World in Orlando are just some national landscapes that were also shut down. By noon United Airlines announced that two of its planes have crashed. They have shut down all the borders in America not letting anyone in or out. It's like a giant lockdown on our country. Our school is even under lockdown. I heard that a nearby school had evacuated earlier today. My boyfriend's sister Erica is living in Los Angeles, which is scary because three of the planes that were hijacked were originally heading to Los Angeles. At this moment I'm just so grateful that I know where my family is and where my friends are, and I know that they are safe. Yet I feel so guilty because there are thousands of people in this country that do not know that about their family members or their loved ones. Sometime, hopefully soon they will know. Yet the news broadcaster on the television says that they might not find people for days in the Trade Centers. Maybe not even for weeks. It has to be devastating waiting and waiting to find out if someone you know is dead or alive. It's like time had stopped when the first plane crashed. I never thought in my life I would see something as awful as this, tearing people's lives apart in a second. I never thought that someone with so much hate could go so far. It's like the Holocaust. It's unbelievable that a man with so much hate can cause so much pain and destruction in a blink of an eye. Its just?wow. Well I have to go now. My class period is almost over so I have to pack up my stuff and get ready. I'm just going to pray that no nothing more will happen, and hope for the best. Wednesday May 29th 2002. Well things here are a little better. No one has seen nor heard from Osama Bin Laden. His Al-Queda members are still about, those who haven't been killed. Every now and then we still gets reports on the news that we are under alert in case of another attack. Lately though, those threats have been involving nuclear bombs. That thought really scares me, along with many others. The World Trade Center site, also known as Ground Zero, has been almost completely cleared away. It was sad seeing them clear it away at first, seeing all the damage and hearing that they were still finding bodies in the rubbish of the trade centers. In the newspaper there are articles on how they were going to build new World Trade Centers. In my opinion that is wrong. Only because I think that that site should be a memorial site, where loved ones can go and mourn their lost loved ones. I know if I had a lost loved one there I wouldn't want to go there and see that there are two new buildings on the site where that loved one died. Things in Afghanistan have improved now that the Taliban is gone. Women have more rights now. Palestine and Israel are having problems along with Pakistan and India. Most of the Middle East is having problems with each other, which could result in worst things. Recently India and Pakistan were in a nuclear arms race. I just really hope that things over there are will be getting better soon. 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 story770.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. 2002-06-10 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 168.169.8.34