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 seemed like any other morning. We were at work at 5:00 am getting ready to serve our patients breakfast. The stories started to roll in and none of us believed what we were hearing. We were a very happy bunch of gals. It seemed we could always find something to laugh about but not that morning, everyones faces were drawn, tears were filling everyones eyes and no one said a word. We worked in completer silence as the radio brodcasted the horror. We all took a few minutes to go to an empty room to collect our thoughts(actually to cry our hearts out) with out any patients seeing us. I counted the minutes until my husband would be home, I needed to hear his voice. I knew he was safe but I still needed to hear from him. about 8:45 cst he called but I hardly recoginized his voice. I knew he heard everything on the radio on his way home from work. There was a sound in his voice that I'll never forget. He was scared, unsure and mad a HELL as we all were. He continued to call us every 15 minutes or so to keep us up with what was going on. Then the really hard part came..... Calling my 19 year old son and telling him to get up and turn on the TV. I tried to keep my voice calm but it was near imposssible. I just wanted to be with my family, I needed to put my arms around them, I needed to feel safe again, silly me..... I'll never feel safe again. Even after 1 year 9-11-01 will forever be burned in my heart. The pain that a simple Iowan was feeling made me relize that I was a part of a bigger picture. As the day went on I found my self mourning for the families of the victims as well as our nation. When I got home from work I seen my Flag flying in the wind and I knew nothing or no one will take away my Hopes and Dreams for our fucture as a family or a nation, But I am still angry, lost and still in mourning. This has been the longest year I can ever remember and unfortunatlly I"LL NEVER FORGET. Tara Cunningham, Lohrville Iowa 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 story3291.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. 216.248.122.137