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 husband and I were asleep in bed - I was 5 months pregnant with my twins at the time. My mum had been staying at our place and she listens to the radio all night. It was about 1 or 2am when she came into our room and said "there has been a terrible accident in New York - a plane has accidentally hit a building". We turned on our television just as another plane hit the other tower and we knew then it was not an accident. We watched in horror and absolute disbelief as the towers collapsed one after the other. The people reading the news were crying and it just seemed that everyone was in total shock. It was on every pay and free to air channel with the exception of the kids channels. When the newsreaders started to talk about terrorists all we could think was that there was going to be a war and it would be the end of the world. If they could do this terrible thing, then they could destroy the world. We did not sleep that night at all and it seemed even in our town so far away from New York that people were sad - everyone was solemn and I guess everyone was in shock. It was several hours into the day before we even remembered that my mum's sister and her husband were actually in New York on a study tour. Everyone in the family were madly trying to find out if they were OK and when someone was finally able to talk to them we found out that due to a change in their intinerary, they were in a Taxi on their way to the airport when it happened. Their schedule had been changed the previous day - they were originally supposed to be in the Twin Towers when it happened. They said they saw the fire and smoke from the taxi but did not know until they got to the airport what had happened. The whole event was repeated so many times over the coming weeks on television, that our 18 month old son began to have nightmares about aeroplanes hitting buildings. We had not deliberately let him watch but you could not escape it. It did make us more aware of all the children in New York and how it must be affecting them. We still regulary think about all of those people who lost their lives on 9/11 and the recent London Bombings bought it all back again. We might be 1000's of miles away from New York, but we are all human beings and the effects of this terrible thing will live with us forever. 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 story11740.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. 2005-08-18 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 203.208.85.108