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: It was one of those clear fall days that is so incredible in the City because they are in such stark contrast to the norm and the surroundings. I had just dropped my son off at his Brooklyn elementary school and returned home. My husband, who was supposed to already have left for a meeting in downtown Manhattan, was standing in front of the television: "something awful has happened. a plane crashed into one of the trade towers." i knew immediately it was no accident -- the day was too clear and the towers too tall for someone to accidentally fly into them. just as i was telling him this the second plane hit. i heard the explosion and felt my house shake. i thought immediately of my neighbor who worked across the street from the Towers and of my son, suddenly so far away. I walked outside to see the impossibly blue day suddenly clouded by gray, debris already starting to float across the river to my house, my neighborhood: bills of lading singed from fire; an insurance claim form; an improbable agronomy of new york state list. I rushed to pick up my son, cancelled his dental appointment -- the receptionist couldn't quite understand the urgency to cancel! -- and walked through my culturally diverse neighborhood looking into the ghostlike faces of people I would never have noticed before. I waited for word from my neighbor, who narrowly escaped a fireball at Century 21 and his wife, who witnessed it all from her office in downtown Brooklyn. Walking home a flaming briefcase landed at her feet, a burning sock landed on her companion's head. Nothing seemed real, not like a movie, but like a nightmare from which there is no escape: '"wake up, wake up!" I called my neighbors, police officers who had helped me rid my neighborhood of drug dealers earlier in the summer, but they were already at Ground Zero. I prayed for them and their families, all cops and firefighters. I prayed for my son's soccer coach, a firefighter -- he was missing for many hours -- and for one of the coaches who didn't make it. And I prayed for all of the kids in my son's school, many, as it turned out, who lost a parent or relative to the massacre. But mostly I cried. I find myself still crying even though I've moved away from the City, a move planned before the tragedy, but one done with more urgency afterwards. Now I live an hour away, but there's not a day that goes by that I don't remember the sounds, the smells, the smoke, the sadness... but I have hope for the future. I have to. I have children. 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 story5041.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. 2002-09-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 24.189.248.70