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: Bearing Witness to History" Stories Submitted Online Description An account of the resource Visitors to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's, "Bearing Witness to History" online exhibition submitted these reflections beginning in 2002. NMAH Story NMAH Story: Story How did you witness history on September 11th? Share your experience. It was after 3rd bell, my freshmen year. I was leaving gym class and someone said, "The Arabs are attacking the Pentagon." So I was like yeah right and dismissed the idea. So I continued walking across campus to my biology class and on the way I saw a fight, so naturally I stayed and watched. When I got to class I hadn't heard anything and I still had no clue, It had to be close to 10:00 in the morning. So sat down and started talking to a few of my friends and still no one knew. So, then the bell rang and the teacher still wasn't there. When he did come in he didn't say anything, he just turned on the TV and flipped to like CNN or something like that. I think that we turned it on after the first tower fell and the other one where the plane hit at the top was still standing. The first tower had just fallen because they kept showing the replay, and the replay of the seond plane hitting. Then, all of the sudden, the other tower fell. I was stunned. It didn't seem real, it was almost like it was out of a movie or something. At first I couldn't believe it, nor could I grasp the amount of destruction that it had caused. The rest of the day we just watched TV and talked about what had happend. Everything that involved school was shut down, nothing afterschool at all. The freshmen football team was talking about meeting at a coach's house but the principal got on the loud speaker and said that if anybody showed up for a practice like that they would be done with school sports for the rest of High School. It was then that I realized how serious things were. NMAH Story: Life Changed Has your life changed because of September 11, 2001? If so, tell us how. Yes, but not a whole lot. It is more of my attitde towards things like that. At first I was so mad I wanted to go to Afghanistan and fight in the war and stuff like that. Now I just wish that things would end. I also feel that we should take security more seriously, which we have done, maybe more than necessary, but that's still good. NMAH Story: Remembered What do you think should be remembered about September 11th? I think that Flight 93 should be remembered because those people were willing to sacrifice themselves so that other people did not have to die. I think that the fire fighters should be remembered because they went into those buildings knowing that there was a chance they might not come out, and a lot of them didn't, so that is another reason. I also think that it should be remembered how everybody stood together. America is like 2 brothers. They fight and sometimes hate eachother, but when someone picks on my brother, we put our differences aside and stand by eachother. NMAH Story: Flag Did you fly an American flag after the events of September 11th? Have your feelings about the American flag changed as a result of September 11th? I hung a flag in my room before 9-11. But after everything happened, my mom went out and bought one and we have flown it outside ever since. 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 nmah2574.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. 2002-09-10 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 66.144.8.173