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Englishman Daniel King was an ESPN commentator for the World Chess Championship final, which took place on the WTC observation deck on September 11, 1995. The match was between Garry Kasparov and Vishy Anand.

Frederic Vogel, producer of theatrical performances at the WTC plaza, talks about how the program represented the philosophy of the WTC management by showcasing a cross-section of NYC culture.

A Michigan man calls to recommend including something about Minoru Yamasaki, the Detroit-based architect who designed the WTC. The man also wrote a poem called "Demystify Death."

Yellow Cab driver Saul Rothenberg talks about his route from JFK to Manhattan and how he always pointed the WTC out to passengers who were new to the city.

As a child Jake Nichols saw the WTC being built. His dad told him, These buildings will last 1,000 years. They will be here forever. As it turned out, he has outlived them. Nichols also rings a Tibetan bell in remembrance of a Tibetan prayer ceremony…

Californian Barbara Hill tells that Dey Street--one of the streets bordering the WTC site--was named after her ancestors. It should be pronounced Dee, in the Dutch way.

Joann Adinolfi was born on Staten Island and saw the WTC every day from the ferry--she once watched lightning bounce off the rooftop lightning rods. She also remembers that the bathroom doors in the WTC would clank as the tower swayed in the wind.

Carl, an electrical contractor, describes working on the initial installation of the WTC TV tower and a more recent renovation of the observation deck.

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.

Tennessee resident John Fagan once met his cousin by chance in front of the WTC towers. He remembers going to the observation deck as a kid and, on the way down, jumping in the elevators to touch the ceiling.

Ruth Anne Kocour, who lost a friend on 9/11, reads letter she received from a person in Bhutan sending condolences for America.

Philip Armor, a visitor to New York from Santa Fe, remembers feeling like he had made it when he drove around the monolithic, silent Twin Towers just two months before 9/11.

Corporate pilot Kevin Graulty remembers the New York skyline from the air. He used to use the WTC to gauge visibility and help him get oriented from Teterboro Airport.

Sister Eileen Fickner, a Salesian nun who lives in New York, remembers the awesome silence on the streets after 9/11.

Floridian Rosie Fussell is mourning for America. She feels the Sonic Memorial project will be healing.

Jodie Anderson describes being new to New York and meeting friends at the glamorous Windows on the World.

On 9/11 Mike Cohen thought of the scene from the movie Godspell in which the cast dances on the top of the still-unfinished WTC.

In the late 1970s Ohio resident Bruce Kinney went hiking at Bear Mountain in the Hudson Valley. He recalls seeing bands of orange light in the sky that he realized were reflections of the sun on the WTC towers.

Ferris Cook describes a short super-8 animated film that she made about the WTC in 1973.

Richard Wolf remembers the way the WNYC Morning Edition radio broadcast sound cut out as the tower burned.