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: The hardest part of September 11, 2001 for me was trying to explain to my 5 year old son what had happened. He did not understand why people would willingly fly airplanes into buildings. The only thing I could think to say to him was that the terrorists hated our country so bad, that it did not matter to them if they died in the process of killing Americans.I wanted to be as honest with him as possible, but at the same time I did not want to petrify him too bad.I saw an interview with Lisa Beamer not long after the attacks where she said how she told her sons that their father was killed in an airplane crash.She told them that many airplanes fly everyday, and that a crash is a very uncommen thing to occur.I explained this to my son as well, just so if we would have to fly on a plane in the future, he would not be to scared. The courage of Lisa Beamer and the thousands of victim's family members like her, gave me more strength in helping my son cope with the attacks. 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 story6393.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. 65.173.148.50