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: Just before 8:46 that morning, I had pulled into the parking garage and turned off the car. I walked to two blocks up to my office, after stopping for coffee, and was just sitting down at my desk and logging into the computer when a co-worker, who was telecommuting that day, got online and instant messaged me. She said a plane had just hit the World Trade Center. She was handing me details as she got them from the news and then all of a sudden she says she watched the second plane hit. I called my mom, who worked in Melville, NY, on Long Island. Her office was just finding out the news as well and were looking for a television. It was almost impossible to get to CNN.com or any of the other online news sites. Then the word that the Pentagon had been hit. I immediately called my mom to let her know I was OK. My office is just half a mile from the National Institutes of Health and the National Naval Medical Center, so she was understandably worried. I woke my husband up, who is in the Navy and stationed in Hawaii. I told him the news and he went to look for a TV while I would try and reach his mother in Texas. As I made contact with friends and family, some having to resort to email to reach me and reassure themselves, my mind started working again and I realized that my brother is a NYC paramedic, along with is new wife. I called my mom again, getting through after several tries, and asked her if she knew where Chris was. She said he was home and I asked about my other brother, who works on the Staten Island Ferry and she said she was worried about him. Well, turns out, my brother who worked on the ferry was home, but the other, Chris, was at work at Flushing Memorial Hospital. He and his wife were assigned to two different triage areas, where, unfortunately, they had no one to treat. We didn't know they were ok until much later that night. I remember standing on the street, looking into a restaurant that had TV screens (it wasn't opened yet) and talking with a complete stranger who wished me the best in finding out if my brother was still alive. I will never forget that day. Or the days that followed. I have yet to go to the World Trade Center and look at it. I did participate, with my mom and daughter, in a Unity Walk near the Pentagon and can still remember the sight of the gaping hole. No, I will never forget that day. 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 story7160.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. 2002-09-13 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 68.50.150.41