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Being in New York City in the days after the tragedy was a surreal experience. I live in lower Manhattan, just outside what was, during the weeks after the event, the "frozen" zone. At each intersection along 14th Street, my route to work and the…

This picture was taken along one of the barricades outside the American embassy on Sept. 12, 2001. Flowers continued to be piled higher and higher as the week went on and thousands upon thousands of people came to the vigil every day and night.

This picture was taken at the demonstration held at the square of Unter den Linden where many embassies are on Sept 14, 2001. The demonstration had been announced only eight hours before it was to begin. Word spread so fast that over 200,000 people…

This picture was taken in Munchen, Germany on Sept 16, 2001. It was one of the memorials built for the attacks on the US. People continued to place flowers around the large cross of red roses and white daisies. There were several demonstrations to…

This is a photo of me taken while I was at Point Thank You, Christopher and West Streets, on Sunday, October 21, 2001

This is a picture I took in May, 2002 of the WTC Cross located at Ground Zero near Church and Cortlandt Streets.

Our original "Hero Highway" and "Thank You" signs that were located at Point Thank You, Christopher and West Streets, NYC.

View of Ground Zero from Broadway and Fulton Street, taken in October, 2002.

Three of us Point Thank You "Nuts on the Highway", spreading holiday cheer to Ground Zero workers and volunteers in our festive hats on Christmas Eve, 2001 at Christopher and West Streets.

Point Thank You "The Nuts on the Highway" meet Ground Zero heroes. This was taken immediately following the last Mass at the WTC Cross on Sunday, June 2, 2002. Volunteers from Point Thank You had been invited to attend the Mass by Father Brian…

A couple of weeks after the 11th, I decided I needed to photograph the city. Each block was changed or seemed to have changed -- and I planned a walk up Fifth Ave. from 34th St to 57th St. I didn't make it to Fifth Ave. before I was struck by the…

Union Square on the afternoon of September 13.

Photo of "Sanitation Rocks" sign at Point Thank you taken on the 9-month anniversary, June 11, 2002. Workers from NYC's Department of Sanitation (DSNY) WTC Emergency Response Division were instrumental in the Ground Zero rescue, recovery and cleanup…

I took this picture in April 2002 when I went to NYC to visit a friend at Marymount College. Seeing the area was extremely emotional and I felt awkward taking pictures, but I felt as long as I did so with dignity and itegrity, the pictures would…

August 2002, almost a year after the attack on the World Trade Center, licensed and unlicensed vendors sell 9-11 souvenirs and "Day of Terror" books containing photos of the attacks along Church Street, directly across the street from Ground Zero.

After I had moved to Washington to work at the Patent Office, I brought some friends back to New York who had never been there before. Of course, the first thing they wanted to do was to go to the top of the World Trade Center. This picture was…

This is a view of the World Trade Center towers looking south from Seventh Avenue. The picture was taken in 1991 from 450 Seventh Avenue. I had just arrived several months before from Israel, and I loved seeing views of Manhattan from high up,…

This is a picture of myself on top of the World Trade Center back in October 1999. It was my first trip to NY and I will never forget it...

This was the picture of the Twin Towers after surviving the 1993 bombing. She was damaged badly yet undaunted. But the terrorists waited just 8 years before knocking her down. This time, they did it with authority. I sure hope the Twin Towers will…

Just below Canal St. 15-20 minutes after the north tower went down