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: Thoughts on September 11th. I can?t believe people can get so angry when we ask them to think of what the United States may have done to deserve this. Can we be so arrogant that we refuse to believe that we may be wrong? If we are so righteous, there should be no threat to our ego when we entertain thoughts of our own possible shortfalls. Who are we to ask, ?How could God let something like this happen?? God does not let anything happen that is not according to his divine will. Who are we to ask, ?How could God let something like this happen to us?? As if we deserve anything at all from God. God who created us; God who provides for us; God who gave us this beautiful world to live in; God who we turn our backs on when he makes our life easy; and God who we run scared and crying to when he makes us work for our happiness. The key is to draw closer to God in all aspects of our life, and rely on Him whether or not life is going the way we like. We must also strive to keep this world beautiful, by first realizing that it does not belong to us, and treating it as something that we do not own, as if expecting the owner to return soon. In light of what happened on September Eleventh, Two-Thousand and One, we must realize that God has a reason for letting something as atrocious as this happen to innocent people, and we can only speculate as to what this reason might be. Perhaps God has let us get so far down to get our attention. Perhaps he has exhausted all other possibilities, and must now resort to what we would refer to as drastic measures to make us realize that he is what we should give our allegiance to, rather than the money we so fully rely on. Justin Watson 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 story8540.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. 2002-10-21 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 129.174.27.131