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: I was in mid town that day, after the towers collapsed I left the city and went home to New Jersey. The next morning I was back at the Javis Center ready to volunteer my time and services. At 10:00 AM I was riding on a bus full of iron workers to the WTC site. When we arrived I was shocked.. It was like a battlefield... WTC 7 was still burning..firefighters were on their ladders trying to put out the blaze. I met up with another volunteer named Craig and we picked up cases of water to hand out to the firemen. As we walked to WTC 7 passing in front of the Bank of New York I handed out the water to some firemen near WTC 7. On the way back Craigs eyes were about a mile wide. He said that a pane of glass had fallen from the top of Bank of New York and missed me by a second. It then dawned on me that this was dangerous. I walked around that day passing water bottles out, shoveling debris, unloading supplies from boats, putting ice on the victims remains. I left the site at about 10:30 that night. The next morning I was back at it..this time to work in the bucket brigade.I will never forget the feeling of joy as the men deep inside the rubble shouted out WE FOUND SOMEONE !! we cheered.. we sent up saws, water and everything they asked for.. however, the joy turned to sadness as a victim was carried out.. I helped carry this person with 5 firefighters to Brooks Brothers. As we laid the victim down the person in charge asked if it was a firefighter, they replied no... a civilian.. We left and headed back to the ruins... passing buckets.. when they blew an alarm.. and people shouted RUN !!! its coming down.. we took off running, it was difficult to run over and thru debris,but as we ran people warned others of what to watch out for (amazing). I had no idea what building was coming down, all I knew was I wanted to live and I was so upset at myself for not being a fast runner.. We ran to a little park off of Trinity Place.. where we gathered ourselves.. I had enough. I was mentally drained after all this. I felt very guilty because I couldnt take it mentally anymore. I had seen enough and I still dream of those sites. Thanks for reading Al Nardi 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 story9513.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. 2003-09-09 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 216.136.47.242