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: Hi Friends, I am fine, and so is everyone that I know. It was an interesting day here in DC yesterday. We were ordered to leave work around 10am, but I didn't get to my house about 20 miles away until after 1pm. Traffic was bumper to bumper, and the trains, buses, and subway system was shut down. It was really bizarre to see hundreds of people walking to get out of town. Some of the trains that carry commuters for long distances into Virginia and Maryland were shut down, so I don't know how or when they got home. We could see smoke from the Pentagon and from a bomb that exploded near the Old Executive Office Building (a block or so from the White House) from my building. As well, there were fighter jets and helicopters flying over the city, and emergency and law enforcement vehicles were everywhere. It was a pretty strange situation, but I never felt that there was any eminent danger. If it happens it happens, and at that point there isn't a whole lot you can do about it. DC was a mess, but nothing compared to what New York City must have been like. It must seem like a bad dream to those folks. I got a call last night from my cousin who lives in Miami. She was at Miami International Airport yesterday morning waiting to catch an American flight to Los Angeles to visit her sister. She said that for several hours they were told that the flight will be delayed "30 minutes," "an hour", "two hours", "canceled, but maybe we can get you on the 1 o'clock flight," until finally they were told to go home, and that everything was closed. Our folks here at the FAA shut down the entire air traffic control system for the country, for the first time ever. When my car-pooler and I drove into the parking garage of the FAA building at 6:30am this morning, there were several limos parked there that belong to officials from across the government. They were meeting to determine when to reopen the airports and the air traffic control system. I got another call last night from a friend who has been a flight attendant for American Airlines for 32 years. She was grounded in Dallas because of the shutdown of the system. She said that she didn't know exactly who the flight attendants were that were on the American Airlines plane that hit the Pentagon, but knew almost all of their flight attendants based in DC. So, she had friends and colleagues that were either killed by the terrorists or that died in the crash. My carpool partner also said this morning that his daughter, who is a school teacher, had two students whose parents were on the plane that hit the Pentagon. So this is a far reaching tragedy. It is quite in the streets of DC and the FAA building today, and will probably take a while for things to return to normal. Take care and please stay in touch. Your friend, Gene 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 story1313.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. 2002-08-20 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 204.108.8.5