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 weather was perfect, blue skies and sunny. A beautiful September day in New York. I walked to my local high school to vote in the democratic mayoral primary and then continued to my job in lower Manhattan. Everything was quite normal until my bus got out of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. Over the radio came an announcement that a small plane had hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The traffic was now backed up so I decided to get off the first stop, which is Battery Park (about six blocks from the WTC). The top of the North Tower was burning. I immediately called my sister at work, who had a TV in her office. I stayed on the phone with her as we both watched the North Tower burn. I could see the flames getting bigger. All of a sudden I see a plane coming from my left, over the Hudson River. "What was this plane doing?" "Where does this plane think its going." "He's flying too low". I watched in horror as it banked to the left, picked up speed and slammed into the South Tower. I stood frozen, then everyone around me began to scream and cry and run for their lives. I never felt so scared in my life. My hands were shaking so badly. A young guy came up to me and asked if I was alright and walked with me for a few minutes. I thought that we were going to be attacked by more planes. I even though that maybe bombs were coming. Everyone headed toward the Staten Island Ferry, hoping to get on a ferry and off this island. That ferry never came. Things quieted down and no more planes came so and I decided to go to my office. The streets were littered with burnt paper, shoes and pieces of concrete. My building is two blocks away from the WTC. I got inside my building just minutes before the South Tower collapsed. I was on the 4th floor when the North Tower collapsed. Someone screamed, "Get away from the windows, take cover, get under a desk!!" "The North Tower just collapsed". I don't remember thinking that I could die, but I do remember my body shaking. Thank goodness our building was not damaged, just extremely dirty inside and out from the dust. The air cleared enough and I left my office around 3:30. Downtown was deserted. Everything was covered with gray dust. On the ferry home to Staten Island you could see all the smoke where the WTC once stood. That was a very upsetting thing to see. I was lucky. I did not see the real horrors of what was happening at the WTC and I did not lose any loved ones. It's now eight months since the attack and I still get a sick feeling every time I hear a low flying plane. 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 story630.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. 2002-05-17 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 199.169.240.132