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 was on the phone with my mother in my office. We were chatting about the usual mundane and happy things that preoccupy our days. Suddenly mother exclaimed...a plane just flew into one of the World Trade Center towers. There was a heavy silence from the phone and then she said the Pentagon has been hit. I just remember forgetting my job and completely reverting my work space computer to a news center. I remember thanking God that my father had cancelled his trip to New York that weekend before. Later that morning, I was asked to attend an awards ceremony for one of my colleagues. She had friends that worked in the Pentagon. She had decided to go ahead and accept the reward because she wanted to remember that there is good amidst this horror. Throughout the ceremony, the University President refrained from his usual wonderful story telling and began focusing on the spirit of life that this ceremony represents. The rest of the day the University was awash with TV sets in classrooms, students crying, people running wildly around holding onto each other and trying to comfort one another. There were angry discussions and incoherence. Since that day, I have had my share of nightmares but mostly there is grief...grief for those who had to jump, those whose lives were ended in incomprehensible terror. Grief that our nation didn't take the foreshadowings seriously. Grief that there is such a horrifying inhumanity. The rage I feel is equally powerful. There is not a day that doesn't go by that I can't fully comprehend the terror, the horror or the pure evil that drove these acts. 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 story211.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. 2002-03-11 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 129.174.12.120 Annotation Annotations to this item. Internet Politics and politicians DC:2