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Ray Ragusa gives a tour of the organization during the Recovery Effort. He descibes working at the landfill as being "at home" compared with working at Ground Zero. Ray estimates the manpower of the different agencies present during the Recovery…

Ray Ragusa remembers finding a body at the landfill and describes his reaction. He says trying to find anything at the landfill was like the "proverbial needle in a haystack."

Leif Boman presented his piece "ge.nos0911a" at the Stockholm Culture house for the one year anniversary of 9/11. Working with the Linköpings University, Leif found a special spectrographic technique to get the unique sound waves from the ash and the…

Susannah Kelly lives in California now, but she grew up in Manhattan at Westbeth, the artists' community on West Street looking south. On a visit home a month after 9/11, she taped an audio journal with conversations with her mother, brother, and…

Damian Knoop of Virginia recounts the Twin Towers as beacons in the distance during drives east on RT 22 as a kid, then the buildings collapsing while he is monitoring customer's New York frame-relay circuits working as a Network Engineer.

Jennifer Altman talks about how her work as a photojournalist helped her to have a feeling of closure after September 11th. She describes some of the interactions she had, in the following months, with individuals and families of the individuals she…

Resident artist Don Bracken describes what he liked about the World Trade Center. He remembers what it felt like to work there as an artist and how overwhelmed he was by the view from his studio on the 91st floor.

A montage of Building Stewardesses talking about the meaning of their jobs: They reflect on what Guy Tozzoli and his ideology of World Trade had hoped to achieve in the 1960s. After 9/11 the Building Stewardesses feel honored to be a part of the…

The Building Stewardesses discuss how they were trained to deal with a sometimes doubtful public.

Jennifer Altman describes an experience she had at the Fresh Kills Landfill. She talks about how the events of September 11th have impacted her life and her perspective about what she does professionally.

Guy Tozzoli describes '39 World Fair and how he got involved. Kathleen Quinn chimes in with a comment about her neighbor and former boss, Guy Tozzoli

Guy Tozzoli's idea of "peace through trade" motivates him.

Guy Tozzoli talks about his determinaion to build the WTC.

A montage of Building Stewardesses recalling the of atmosphere of the 1960's, the music of the period, their own youthful enthusiasm, and the impact of their jobs on their lives.

A montage of the Building Stewardesses talking about the workday and workplace.

An audio montage of Building Stewardesses talking about the Mohawk iron workers, and other men at the WTC.

Independent producer Ben Shapiro recorded this audio in a Chinatown Lumber yard. The men are loading wood to be made into emergency stretchers into a truck.

Local woman Lisa Barnett describes her 9/11 video. She had the camera focused on the view from her window while she called her husband to make sure he was all right. He had been on the PATH that morning. She also has footage of people running down…

Chris describes his mother's phone message from 9/11.

Patsy describes her son's NYU graduation at Windows on the World in 1999. Now she is glad they overextended their budget for this. Son lives near the site still. Patsy offers to share their video of this party.