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Former WTC building stewardess Jane Selawach talks about the speech she gave to visitors as the buildings were being constructed.

Former WTC building stewardess Jane Selawach describes the uniforms they had to wear, the era those outfits represented, and how the job affected her outlook on life.

Former WTC building stewardess Kathleen Quinn describes her relationship with Guy Tozzoli and her training.

Former WTC building stewardess Kathleen Quinn describes her early days on the job.

Former WTC building stewardess Olivia Zdanowiz describes the uniforms they wore.

Former building stewardess Olivia Zdanowiz describes her progress from beauty pageant contestant to WTC construction guide.

Edythe, a former WTC building stewardess, describes the training they received and the uniforms they wore.

Edythe, a former WTC building stewardess, explains that Guy Tozzoli was both boss and mentor to her and many of the building stewardesses.

Former WTC building stewardess Sandy Austin gives the speech she used to give to observation deck visitors in 1968.

Former WTC building stewardess Sandy Austin Asbury describes the look and feel of Lower Manhattan and the WTC construction site.

Former Building Stewardess, Sandy Austin Asbury talks about her FBI family.

Luke Davis watched the WTC fall from his home in Astoria, Queens. He calls in March 2002 to express his admiration of the Tribute in Light memorial that was visible at night.

New Jersey resident Nancy Boss always used to look at the New York skyline when she was driving on Route 22--she still does. She never realized before what the WTC meant to her.

Laura Weinberg Arnow's husband always worked either by the WTC or in it. In the 1960s, his office had a view of the slurry wall being built; then he worked for the Port Authority. Arnow also describes going with her son to meet her husband at the…

An anonymous man reads a New York City guide from 1939, in which the WTC area is described as a Syrian quarter occupied by Turks and Armenians.

Jonathan Siskin was evacuated from his apartment in Battery Park City on 9/11 and had to run into a restaurant to escape the dust. He saved the voicemails he received that day.

Katherine Johnson saved the message she received on 9/11 from her father in Wisconsin. He was crying--something she had never heard before--and checking maps to see how far away she was from the WTC.

Californian Monica Morrill visited the WTC only once, in 1994. She remembers thinking that the people there were very New York and feeling that she was looking like a tourist.

Colorado resident Barbara Dunn used to live in Jersey City. She spent so much time in the subway tunnels under the WTC that the sounds of rush hour there are still vivid to her.

Pamela McFadden loved Windows on the World, especially the view of the Statue of Liberty. She thought of the restaurant as a sort of ship in the sky.