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: Five minutes before the first plane hit, I walked past the World Trade Center, coming down Church St. from SoHo, same as nearly every other day. It was a stunningly beautiful day, though I was mad at myself for wearing black (again). I was early-ish for work at Broadway and Rector Street (about four block south of WTC). When I entered the (small) office only two people were there. I picked up the ringing reception phone as I walked by and my boss's wife screamed "a plane hit the World Trade Center!" So I ran back out to see, got to the subway entrance at Rector and Trinity I think, and I tipped my head back and watch a (seemingly small) fire burn atop the north tower. As I stared, trying to figure our how bad it was, my entire eyeline was filled with the second plane coming in over my shoulder from the south. I thought it was somehow a rescue plane or army plane there to put out the fire. It was SO low, and SO loud. As it approached the towers, I then thought it was going to go between the towers, maybe doing some kind of reconnaissance. The explosion made me gasp. The fireball was enormous and I immediately thought, oh war. War. I also thought, briefly, maybe just maybe it's a movie? And then I ran because I thought the building would fall on me. I got to just above Battery Park and wandered around with all the other shocked people trying to make cell phone calls, until I stupidly went back in to work, where we were soon trapped because the buildings collapsed. For hours we watched the smoke and debris float by our windows, first white and then black as night. When we could leave, the area looked like a war zone. We walked to the east and up through Chinatown and I had to run past any tall buildings. I felt relieved to not to have known anyone in either building (amazing), but the sadness remains. I still have nightmares (always planes coming in from a distance and crashing near me and my family at my childhood home in Maine). And I will never ever forget the smell that lingered for so many weeks afterwards, wafting up into my apt. Sometimes my blow dryer has that smell and I have to turn it off and feel bad. 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 story944.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. 2002-07-29 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 198.4.159.5 Annotation Annotations to this item. Struggle to get home WTC, attack