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 Library of Congress Stories Description An account of the resource A collection of more than 200 user-submitted stories gathered from the Library of Congress's "Witness and Response" exhibition staged in 2002. LC Story LC Story: Story Where were you on September 11, 2001 when you heard the news? (Please share your experience of learning of the events and what you did afterwards.) I was still in bed asleep. I got a phone call from my best friend and I remember getting mad at him for waking me up 15 minutes before my alarm would have. He quickly told me to turn on the tv, I asked him what channel, he said any would do. Videos were replaying of the destruction taking place in New York. "Another one crashed into the Pentagon," my best friend told me, "but they don't know if it's related to the one in New York." Not knowing how serious it was yet having just woken up, my first thought was if classes would be canceled at the university I attend. We hung up the phones. Not five minutes later I called him back screaming into the phone "another plane hit the other tower!" That's when I knew that this was serious. I decided not to ditch school even with all the chaos happened. I listened to the radio the whole way there to learn more. Every radio station had the same thing. My professor carried on like nothing was happening and I sometimes wonder if he knew what was going on at the time. I listened to the radio on the way home and they were still doing news up dates. I took my mom to the commissary at Ft. Bliss and there were only a handful of people in there. When I got home I watched the news all night in hopes of finding out more info. I wanted to know who did this, why they did it, and why the US didn't know this was going to happen. LC Story: Memory What is your strongest memory of that day? I just remember not feeling normal. Everything I knew was different. The radio stations on the way to school, any channel on the TV, they all had the same things. LC Story: Affects How do you perceive that the events of September 11, 2001 have affected this country and/or you personally? I felt safe before this. Now I don't. I can't go onto Ft. Bliss without being searched and asked for an ID. I've only been on a plane once since then and I was terrified, I honestly didn't know if I would be making it to my destination or not. I have noticed a lot of racism at school against Arab students and it makes me hate the people that are doing this. I heard of one incident in another school where an Isreali student got hit in the head with a rotten egg. It's horrible and it's probably going to get worse before it gets better. 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 lc_story192.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. 2004-01-05 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 205.188.208.38