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Idaho resident Al Kristal visited New York last January and watched the silent film Nosferatu at the World Financial Center. The Club Foot Orchestra provided a live soundtrack for the movie. He thinks this music would be great to have as a memorial…

Alan worked the overnight shift for American Express/Shearson financial on the 103rd floor of the WTC in the early 80's. He describes some of the experiences he had during those off hours and shares some of his memories of the building.

Alan Guttman reads a letter he wrote to the New York Times about the WTC climber, George Willig, in 1977.

Verity Chegar of San Francisco recommends including the telephone operator's message All circuits are busy. She heard it all day on 9/11 when she tried to call friends in New York.

NPR sums up the events of the morning of 9/11. Government buildings are evacuated in Washington, D.C. All U.S. planes are grounded.

On September 12, Allen Pierce rode his bike to Christopher Street and the West Side Highway to interview the crowd watching rescue workers.

Texan Allison Downey, a songwriter, wrote On the Day to raise money to help with the cause.

Author and professor Angus Kress Gillespie describes how America's secular culture and values cause us to be the victims of terrorism.

Chris worked as a guard at the WTC in the late 1970s and had several amorous encounters in the stairwell, especially on the 78th floor. He got caught, though. After that, he was assigned to work in the sub-basement, eight floors belowground.

Myrna Annette was flying from France to the United States on 9/11 and was shocked when the pilot said U.S. airspace was closed.

Joan met an AT&T employee named Boo. When she was assigned to document the timing of calls from 9/11, Boo felt as though she were invading people's privacy during their last moments.

David Fridell is saddened that the crashes at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania receive so little attention.

Pamela Irvine was working at Deutsche Bank across the street when the first tower fell. She ran away through the debris.

Carolyn Schunter, an EMT in Iowa, wonders why there is no news coverage of paramedics or the security guards who worked at the WTC.

An Iowa woman who visited her sister in NYC in the 1980s remembers looking up at the WTC observation deck from below. She saw what she thought was a bird in the sky, but it turned out to be a 747. Later, standing on the top of the building, she flew…

Mohammed Anwar lost his uncle, a Cantor Fitzgerald employee, in the September 11 attacks. He remembers going to Windows on the World and meeting Richie Havens there.

WKMS FM Radio ancherwoman Kate reads her lead from Sept. 17th 2001. She recorded sounds by waterfront in Peduca, Kentuckey at ceremony.

Liz Wallerstein's husband is a songwriter. She reads from his work, And You Want Me to Sing a Song, written October 19, 2001.

Classical guitarist Andrew Schulman's first regular gig was at the WTC. His composition "Molly's Dance" was recorded live in June 2001 for a program hosted by John Schaefer on WNYC.

Classical guitarist Andrew Schulman recalls his first steady gig at Windows on the World in late 1970s. The last time he played there was in July 2001.