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: On The morning of September 11, 2001. I was standing at the bus stop with my Son, Daughter and Nephew. As we were waiting for the bus to arrive we saw a United Airlines plane flying extremely low above our house. My Nephew loves airplanes so I pointed it out to Him and the other children. " Look at the Airplane", I exclaimed. We were all staring at it and talking about how low it was flying. " Wow, I said I hope it's not in trouble" ! about 5 minutes later my children got on the bus and my Nephew and I returned into the house. As soon as we got in the door my mother called and said; " Jennifer, get up here and look at this an airplane crashed into one of the twin towers" We ran up to my mother's house and were watching it on T.V. Then all of a sudden we saw another explosion. " Oh, God... I said, Mom this isn't an accident". We watched for a few more minutes, I was shaking I couldn't believe it. Who would do such a horrible thing. Then we started seeing how an airplane crashed into the pentagon and how another had crashed into Pennsylvania and heard the rumors that it was potentially headed for the White House. I panicked. I told my mom to watch Tyler (my nephew) as I went to the various schools that my Children and my Niece were at picking them up one by one. I brought them all to my home where as I suppose anyone would, I felt we were the safest. I didn't tell my children until I we got home what happened, Telling them was one of the hardest things to do. How do you explain something like that to your family and still make them feel safe? It's impossible. When I told them what happened we all just started crying, you feel like you've been violated, There's anger and helplessness, not to mention the fear. My daughter completely panicked because her best friends Father worked in the towers and she couldn't get through to see if he was o.k. Two of my co-worker's ( a mother/ daughter) lost their (husband/ father) in the WTC. Waiting to hear rather or not he got out was pure agony. The feeling of helplessness was unbearable. Then There's the fear that we all felt. My family dosen't live far from stewart Airport in Orange County so airplanes fly over our house all the time. Everytime (even to this day) when one goes over our home, My children come running in to me and I have to try and reassure them that it's o.k. I tell them that the good guys are up there watching over us and that I doubt anything like that horrible day will ever happen again. I pray that none of the future generations will ever have to see anything like this generation has. 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 story6452.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. 2002-09-12 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 129.42.208.150