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Michelle Martinez visited New York from California in 1984. She reads a postcard she wrote about the WTC during her trip and meant to send to her brother. That brother now lives in New York; he watched the towers fall on 9/11. She rediscovered the…

Eva Berry reads the prayer that "wrote itself through her" on 9/11.

The Stewart-Warner radio advertised in this 1930s radio spot was designed for the "sensational new metal tubes."

A caller recommends talking to Bernard Goldstein, a radio executive who knew everyone down there on Radio Row.

At Windows on the World not long ago, Joan Sulfur ran into a man she hadn't seen since the 1960s--they have since gotten married.

When Trauter Worsheck's father came to visit from Germany, they went to dinner at sunset at Windows on the World. She remembers his father's laughter.

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.

Austin firefighter Peter Teliha sent a care package and poem to his company's sister station in NYC, Ladder 18.

A mom calls from Ohio to talk about her third-grade daughter's poem, Peace.

Jon Pretnar has video footage of a sand mandala built by Tibetan monks in the lobby of the WTC around 1994.

Bob Barkerher is a former WTC executive who later became a tour guide at the towers. He explains that the tops of the towers sway 11 feet on windy days and says that the people working above the 75th floor sometimes got seasick.

Virginian Jennifer Kronstein remembers hearing random reports of a plane flying into the WTC on the morning of 9/11 and wondering what kind of idiot would do that. Then the news became clearer. Her dad was supposed to meet with the Port Authority…

Dr. Elizabeth Grill's husband had always wanted to propose to her on top of the world--so he chose Windows on the World for the event. The couple were on their honeymoon on September 11.

Cheryl Myers from Wisconsin describes the message she received from her supervisor, who was in NYC on September 11--it made an event that was so far away seem real.

Charter boat captain Patrick Harris had docked his boat at the World Financial Center on September 11 and was there when he saw the first jet hit the tower. He immediately radioed the Coast Guard.

Shaun Gerien is a reporter for WSHU Long Island. He describes working on two WTC-related stories--one about a firefighter and the other an interview with an office worker.

Becky Valdez's husband commuted to the WTC from upstate New York. He was there on the morning of September 11 but made it out alive. Their memory of the building is the sound of footsteps echoing in the lobby.

Adrianna Bravo, a young doctor at St. Vincent's Hospital, reads her journal entries from 9/11. She felt so unprepared for her first look at war and describes treating firemen and policemen.

Jane Herschlag, the curator of readings at the West Side Y, has a recording of the readings program After 9/11

Irving Simon talks about what happened to the small businessmen after the destruction of Radio Row.