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 at work in the Department of Political Science at Valdosta State University. It was a very busy day, with many students stopping in to talk about advising issues and with many of my own teaching and research projects underway. A little after 9 am my daughter called from Georgia Southern University near Savannah. She had just started college there a few weeks earlier and relayed the infor- mation about the initial attack. She called back many times that morning. The combination of the event with her absence from home made the experience more searing. She was actually watching TV when the first tower collapsed, and she was on the phone with me at the same time. Another instructor came in to say that she had actually seen the second plane hit the second tower. As I went about normal activities, rumors abounded about other sites that were hit. Most of those proved to be untrue. I was surprised that the university held several meetings in the afternoon. We conducted normal business but talked at various points about the nature of the catastrophe. In the evening with my family I watched the continuous replay of events on TV. My reaction was a mixture of disbelief and intense fellow-feeling with the experience those on the plane must have had. At the same time, I tried to imagine what might have led the terrorists to perpetrate these acts after living such seemingly normal lives in American towns. Anger and the desire for retribution and swift justice were important emotions as well. This surprised me somewhat, since am not normally comfortable with the use of violence as retribution. In the coming days, as a political scientist I tried to fit the pieces of the event into the framework of political science and even planned how to incorporate it into courses and research projects. At the same time, the profound sense of horror did not go away. 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 story337.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. 2002-04-02 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 168.18.144.80 Annotation Annotations to this item. Students/Teachers Terrorism DOMESTIC