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Jay worked as an intern in the WTC at age 16. He reflects on what it felt like to be there and how that experience impacted his life.

Jeff Strubel worked as a tractor operator at Fresh Kills Landfill. He started on September 11, just doing what ever he could to help. He describes some of the public support he experienced while driving his equipment from ground zero.

Jeff Strubel worked as a tractor operator at Fresh Kills Landfill. After September 11, Jeff helped with the Recovery effort. In this clip, he talks about how he and the other workers feel to be a part of this difficult process. Every guy has his…

Jeff Strubel worked as a tractor operator at Fresh Kills Landfill. After September 11, he spent some time at Ground Zero, helping with the clean-up. In this clip he describes all of the cars and other vehicles found at the site.

Jeff Strubel worked as a tractor operator at Fresh Kills Landfill. After September 11, Jeff helped with the Recovery effort. He says the guys he worked with really supported eachother but they still find it to difficult to talk about. Jeff…

Jeff Strubel worked as a tractor operator at Fresh Kills Landfill. After September 11, Jeff helped with the Recovery effort. He says that a lot of the guys who worked at the landfill, the firefighters, don't want to talk about what they…

Jeffrey describes his experience on the morning of 9/11; riding towards the wreckage and taking photos. He recalls how the events sunk in over the course of the day.

Wolf Loescher, a member of the Celtic rock band Jiggernaut, describes one of the group's songs, Legacy, which has taken on added meaning since 9/11.

Poet Jill Breckenridge reads her work Contour Line Drawing. She was at a drawing class at the time of the attacks, and her son lives in NYC.

Couple Jill Eisenstadt and Michael Drinkard describe their 1990 marriage at the WTC.

Jill Eisenstadt, having married her husband Michael Drinkard in the WTC, discusses the events of her September 11th.

Jill Remmler's brother worked in the WTC, but he was running late the morning of 9/11. He videotaped it from across the water in New Jersey.

Jill Tatara describes a poem she wrote using lines she heard while walking from the WTC area on 9/11.

Jim Gladman tells his story of the summer of 2001. He was working on an illustration of the WTC for Big Magazine and he also attended Glenn Branca's "Hallucination City" premier at the WTC plaza. "I felt the WTC, New York, and Branca's music formed…

Songwriter Jim Lutz wrote One Mile in the Sky after 9/11. Here it is performed by musicians from Austin, Texas.

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.

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

Gerentology assistant professor Joe Angelelli recorded conversations with elderly on 9/11, saving many nuggets of wisdom. He also recorded the Providence candlelight vigil.

Songwriter Joe Louden tells about the song he wrote called Good to Cry.

On September 10, 2001, Nashville songwriter Joe Nolan wrote Blue Turns Black, a song so serious that he wondered where the emotions had come from. The next day, the composition suddenly made more sense.