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: I was home getting dressed for work and had the TV on the news channel. The news came on with a breaking story that a plane had struck one of the World Trade Center Towers in New York and they showed a live picture. For the next few minutes before the next tower was hit, newscasters were speculating, as all of us were too, that a small private plane somehow must have lost its direction and hit one of the World Trade Center towers. As we were watching this story, we saw (what we initially thought was a replay of the first plane)a plane hitting the second World Trade Center tower. As soon as we realized that it was actually another plane and not a replay of the first one, panic hit me. I thought we were being attacked but by whom, I had no idea. Soon after the second plane hit the second tower, then a news special flashed up that the Pentagon was hit by a plane. My husband travels a lot so my phone immediately began to ring with family and friends wanting to know if Walt was flying that day. I got dressed and immediately went into work to see my husband. We decided we needed the family together so we left work, picked up my two daughters from school and went over to our parents to watch as this horror story was unfolding. Less than a month before, I had lost my oldest daughter to a disease so to see all of the people who lost so many loved ones that day, hit too close to home. I was still healing and felt alittle of what they would be going through in the coming days, months, years. I know sometimes we can't explain why something like this happens and why some live while others perish but we must try to look past the ugliness of it all and find comfort and good in the memories of those we love that no one can take from us. 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 story7642.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. 2002-09-16 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 12.18.36.220