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 arrived home at about 7:00am. Working nights was stressful and watching the news was my way of cooling down. Before trying to sleep I decided to get on the computer and surf the web. One of my applications generated a link 'plane crashes into world trade center'. I checked cnn.com and foxnews.com and found nothing. So I decided to sit down in the living room and watch the news. Smoke was going into the air and the 2nd plance had not crashed yet. Bodies fell from the wound in the building. As the reporter reviewed known facts there was another explosion. The 2nd tower was struck. The tv kept replaying the footage and slowly the news lady found out what happened. My wife called. She is a middle school teacher. I told her that no matter what happens I love her. I watched all day. My boss said to report to work as normal. There were armed guards in front of the national guard building on the way to work. It was surprising that the roads were open. My hope was that someone would instruct me to go back home and stay off the streets. In hindsight it was wrong of me to leave her alone on such a scary night. No one called into the phone center except maybe one or two people. My lesson from this experience is: Never work a night shift job. Never leave my wife alone at night. Never work a weekend shift. September 11, 2001 helps me to reconsider my priorities. 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 story8672.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. 2002-11-24 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 65.81.147.124