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: September 11 started as any day. I am an occupational therapy practioner that works in the school system. I was looking forward to a trip to the dollar store to help children from our community based junior high program work on shopping skills. I was only at the school a few minutes when someone gave us the news that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. At that time the first thoughts were that is so sad. Thinking it was a small plane and that it was an accident. Now the children start arriving at school. Some teachers have turned on T.V. sets and we see the second plane hit the other tower. It was such a feeling of despair. Something really bad is happening but we don't know enough about what is happening to share information with the school children yet. The principal sends a memo that says he too only knows what is being broadcast, and continue school as normal, and we will get updates throughout the day. I call my own daughters highschool and ask if they are taking any different steps, should I come get her, are they informing the students what is happening? They inform me some parents are picking up there students but there is no need to. The teachers at the school I am working at make a decision to go on our community trip as planned. We are on the way to the store when an announcement comes over the bus radio telling all buses within the Chicago city limits to get out of the city. Now it is coming even closer to home. We do go to the store, there is no one on the roads every shop owner is glued to the radio or T.V. We head back to school. At this time for the kids that are left at the school (many parents picked there kids up)it is decided to bring T.V.'s into the classroom and share information with the students. It was difficult there were many questions but I think it was important for them to be a part of what was going on. At my daughters school they decided not to let them watch T.V. I understand why they did this but since they were highschool students it was very confusing for them. They were hearing enough chatter in the hall that terrible things were happening but were not given enough information to comprehend what was occuring. We as many Americans spent the next days getting every bit of information we could, mourning the loss of our citizens and wanting action on those who could have done such a thing. Since the 9/11 event a year ago we went to Chicago to see the exhibit of photos taken at ground zero. It was moving and there was such a connection to others that were there. It was like a wake and everyone there was part of a family to remember the victims. Then we went to New York City and went to ground zero. Again it was a feeling of connection, a feeling of empathy for the victims families, trying to image how they feel and knowing that it could be any one of our own families that this could have happened to. As a country we must stay strong, stay connected, never forget, and never let this happen again. 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 story6219.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. 216.105.67.91