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: The time was roughly around 8:45am. I had been woken up by my father as it was the day I was due to ship out for boot camp in the United States Navy. I rolled around in bed for a few more minutes then made my way downstairs. My Mom and Dad said "Look whats goin on" then I turned my head and saw what I thought was the Air Traffic Control Tower at JFK on fire. I said "Is that JFK?" they said "No, its the Twin Towers, a plane crashed into one of them this morning." I replied "Is it bad weather or somethin?" "No sunny as can be" said my Dad. After he spoke those words I saw an object approaching the second tower and striking it. "Is that how it looked when it hit?" I asked, "No" said my mother "That just happened!" I will never forget the feeling in my gut at that moment. It is one that is indescribeable and I hope will never be repeated. As the day progressed I was still getting myself ready to get shipped out to Great Lakes for boot camp. It was when I was buying new shoes at the Rugged Warehouse in Annapolis that we heard of the plane hitting the pentagon. I thought to myself "This is serious....what is next?" We rushed home and when I got home my recruitter EM1 Bruce Piatek USN, was on the phone and said, "Mike, due to the events that have happened today, you wont be able to get out today". I said "I understand, just keep in touch." He replied "I will, expect to go out tomorrow." "Ok, I said" The day passed and the headlines came and the next day Sept. 12. I was dropped off at the recruitting station, and off to MEPS we went. Once there we continued to watch the news until they put us on a bus from Baltimore, MD to Chicago,IL when the country was in peril. The whole ride to boot camp I thought to myself "Im so proud to be going to serve my country when it needs me the most! I had never felt better, and Knowing the the fact that I would help get the bastards that did that to us. So There I was, me and 79 future sailors confused about the times, knowing we were the ones that would have to get the next job done! It was a special time at Great Lakes, we knew this was a new kind of war. But we were not afraid. Because we were all americans affected the same way that day. And it changed us all forever. For the Best. GO USA!!! 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 story10748.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. 2004-08-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 152.163.253.1