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Cirque du Soleil consultant Don Richards talks about "We Reinvent the Circus," which the troupe performed at the WTC in the 1988.

Californian Claudia recalls trying to reach her brother in financial district in New York. She saved his conference call message. She will never erase it.

Michigan resident Brian McDonald was in the Coast Guard and was posted in New York from 1971 to 1973. He watched the towers being built and remembers the drone and hum of cranes echoing across the harbor.

Two young hiphop artists, Colin Travers and Eric Minor made a three minute dedication piece sampled from news clips. It is being played on WKCR. They poured their hearts into their piece "RIP WTC." Colin grew up in Brooklyn Heights and witnessed the…

Independent producer Benjamin Shapiro interviews two men collecting ashes a few blocks from the WTC on September 11.

Guy Tozzoli talks about his determinaion to build the WTC.

Nate Cory, a young man who came to New York with his family right after 9/11, recounts what it was like to visit the city at that time. This piece was produced in Portland, Maine, for Blunt Radio during the fall of 2001.

Composer Uli Geissendoerfer recorded his feelings on piano after witnessing 9/11 from Brooklyn and plans to make a documentary. He put objects inside his piano to create the music's eerily broken effect.

Doug Weingarten, a blind man, describes his audio archive of the news radio and newspaper audio service reports. A computer-generated voice reads the news to him.

This anonymous caller belongs to the New York Association of Hotel Concierges. They held an annual banquet at Windows on the World and he has video footage of the event.

Dave's father worked right across from the WTC in the 1960s and 1970s and took slides of the WTC being built.

Guy Tozzoli talks about going ahead with construction despite critics.

Freelance reporter and writer Steven Manning recorded this tape on 9/11. That morning, he was on his way from his home in Brooklyn to the J&R music store downtown. When he heard the first plane, he went toward the WTC and interviewed people. Here he…

Jane Selawatch talks about the importance of exposure to other cultures.

Damian Knoop of Virginia recounts the Twin Towers as beacons in the distance during drives east on RT 22 as a kid, then the buildings collapsing while he is monitoring customer's New York frame-relay circuits working as a Network Engineer.

Virginia-based recording artist Dan Dibble wrote a song to celebrate the spirit of firefighters and rescue workers. He is donating the profits to the Red Cross.

Dan Jassen descibes how he taped the national moment of silence on September 14, 2001, turning the radio dial across all the stations to record the absence of sound.

Downtown resident Daniel Goode will never forget the roar of the first plane as it passed his apartment window on 9/11 or the sound of wrecking ball at Ground Zero.

These newsreels from the early 1970s document Philippe Petit's highwire stunt and Owen J. Quinn's parachute jump off the WTC.

Boston resident David Freed recalls a hearing woman interviewed on NPR after 9/11 who said she wanted to hold her husband's hand. Also, he remembers that PanAm had a heliport on top of the WTC in the 1970s.