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: My day started out like any other day: wake up, get dressed, and have breakfast with the early morning news. Within the next few minutes my eyes would see the horrors to come. I switched on the television and hit channel 11. The first thing I saw were two familiar looking buildings, one with smoke rising out of it, the other looking normal. I didn't quite understand what was happening, so I decided to try another station. Flipping through every channel, I saw the same things: two towers-one fine, the other not. I remebered what was so familiar about them. They were the famous twin towers in New York and one of them had had a plane hit the side of it. Within five minutes, another plane flew into the second tower. Reporters were frantically trying to explain what had just occured. My first thought was, "This isn't happening. It isn't real." The problem was this was real, all too real. Well, I finished my breakfast and got ready to leave for school, the shock still not sinking in. During that day, news spread around school, announcements were made, and yet I still couldn't register the information. For the next few weeks the information was slowly sinking in. To this day I still remeber that plane fly straight into that building and what was left of the reck. 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 story8289.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. 2002-10-02 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 209.79.81.243