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 had just stepped out of the shower when the first plane hit. I woke my Wife who works for a foreign news agency to tell her a plane had crashed into the WTC. When the second plane hit, my Wife threw on clothes and hit the road, and I knew I wouldn't see her for days. I watched the news reports until it was time to wake my son. I put on cartoons for him so he wouldn't be watching whatever might happen next on the tv screen. My Wife called to tell me that they had hit the Pentagon and that there were preliminary reports that Camp David had been hit (which turned out to be the plane that crashed in PA). For the first time, my hair stood up on end as I realized we were under a full fledged attack. I turned on the TV in the bedroom just as the first on the towers fell. I told my son that "some very bad people had attacked the country" and I told him he was safe as I tried to convince myself. The children at school were so upset. The younger ones were talking animatedly about the explosions caused by planes hitting the buildings and the older ones were trying to deal with the enormity of what was happening. The adults were equally as shocked and afraid as we tried to be there for the children. I turned on Howard Stern. The radio station was still playing the live feed from New York. It was comforting that in the midst of the attacks that Howard was still on the air giving reports as to what was happening and it was as close to New York as I could get. I didn't break down until I was almost at work, thinking about all those people who must have died when the towers fell. At that time the estimates were that tens of thousands might be dead and I kept thinking that was like a small city being wiped out. 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 story1191.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. 204.94.61.68 Annotation Annotations to this item. Radio Coverage Rumors Students/Teachers DOMESTIC