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Nik & Helen March 16 2001

THIS WAS MY FIRST VISIT TO NYC IN OCT 2003. I FELT A SENSE OF EMPTINESS AT THE WTC SITE. IT STILL GIVES ME CHILLS THINKING BACK TO THE FIRST TIME I WENT TO THE SITE. THIS IMAGE SAYS IT ALL...A BIG EMPTY VOID....

I took this picture on 9/18 after having revisited Ground Zero. It is a mural on Avenue C and 14th Street in Manhattan. I was particularly struck by the eerie irony of the traffic sign.

A New York City flag is raised by Marines of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) over the base camp dubbed Camp Rhino November 30, 2001. New York City firefighters gave the flag to Navy Sea Bees weeks earlier in case the…

I took this photograph from a hill between the Route 27 Overpass and the Citgo Service Station on Joyce St., Arlington, VA at approximately 12:15 p.m. on September 11th. It was a horrible but compelling sight to behold.

"Tribute in Light" pierces the night sky between the World Financial Center buildings. April 2002. This was such an amazing sight to see.

This was a wallpaper traveling around the internet. I still have it as my wallpaper. I believe the article that came with it was that it was an ice sculpture (all ice) made in Canada in honor of those firefighters that died.

On a road trip across the U.S. from L.A. I found signs put up over freeway overpasses. This one was near San Diego, California

Copyright 2001 Paula M. Brown. These images were photographed by me on the morning of September 11, 2001, from the terrace of my highrise apartment in Union City, NJ. See entire photo essay at http://www.paulabrown.net/WTC/911.htm

Part of the viewing platform of Ground Zero is plywood panneling. People have written prayers and signatures and whatnot in memorium.
Taken January 2002.

This is the sunset from our home on 9/11. My wife, an employee of a major airline, and I were at home with our 5-day old daughter when the broadcast we were watching was interrupted with this life-altering news. Living in Atlanta, we're used to the…

In Memory Of Our Heroes. This photo of the firehouse on 14th Street and 1st Avenue, is a representation of what was happening at all the firehouses throughout Manhattan.

I took this photo in the summer of 1988 as I was heading for my first trip to Liberty Island.

I took this around noon on 9/11, on a street off Seventh Ave downtown. This was a recurring sight - strangers gathered around someone's car listening to the radio news reports, trying to make what had just happened make sense.

I took this photo in 1987 while in high school. This is a shot looking down from the roof of the WTC.

More from out family trip ... of the WTC from the ferry.

The Vitolo Family

World Financial Center damaged.

Taken From Liberty Park Facing Midtown Manhatten in April of 2002 during the memorial lights tribute.