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: this poem was written after interviewing a lower manhattan resident about her 9/11 experience. Diane's Song When the plane passed right over our heads I thought it was in trouble and trying to land in the water. It hit the first building. Then Kathryn said, "We're under attack." I thought, "Where is my daughter?" I thought that an awful mistake had been made. In the street all the people were running uptown Except for one man who, holding his head, Shouted, "No!" while running not up, but down. And people were jumping from windows, a sight I forgot for a year - Did my eyes deceive me? The second plane hit. Then Kathryn turned and said, "All right, now do you believe me?" In the street a Jamaican woman stopped as her legs buckled under her. That mother clasped her hands together and cried, "My son in one building; my daughter in the other." A woman stayed with her as Kathryn and I ran home and told our neighbors to leave. We gathered our work, our clothes but that's not all for it seemed everyone had cats. We met downstairs, the neighbors with all of their carrying cases when there before us Stood forty-two seniors with no place to go. "We can't leave," I said. Kathryn said, "I know." So we put back our stuff and we stayed as the cloud engulfed our homes and insidiously set up house in our lungs; as hour passed hour we lost water, phones, then the rest of our power. Someone said that they'd seen my missing kid She'd gone to a friend's house a block from the Center. Thank God that I didn't know then where she was. To this day I can't get straight just what she did. For the next several days we drank powdered milk courtesy of a curate who came in a truck Things seemed to be going O.K. until someone said, "I just took my last heart pill." We found medication; we manned the drugstore A mysterious stranger brought by sixty meals Over time we got back some power, the phones and the water; the toxics came too, more and more. The government told us the air was O.K. so we didn't think twice; we started to clean while a mile up Broadway some scientists found the most toxic small particles they'd ever seen. Now the neighbors have come down with asthma and rashes With Trade Center cough and severe sinusitis I've had five infections; the cat has had three and Kathryn and her cat have chronic bronchitis. The world has moved on. Most people believe In the war against terror, the U.S. is winning But we people downtown wonder if for us September 11th was just the beginning. Jenna Orkin 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 story10140.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. 2003-09-25 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 64.12.96.135