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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.

Agnes Crow of Virginia sings a haunting wail in response to the events of September 11.

Myrna Annette was flying from France to the United States on 9/11 and was shocked when the pilot said U.S. airspace was closed.

Carlos Quinteros made a music video using footage from his trip to NYC in 1999 to express what he feels about the city.

Elizabeth Rich reads a story about watching the towers being built while visiting her grandma in New Jersey. The towers were the mountains of her childhood.

Video producer Marshall Saunders talks about the fire safety video he made at the WTC after the 1993 bombing.

Liz Wallerstein's husband is a songwriter. She reads from his work, And You Want Me to Sing a Song, written October 19, 2001.

Tom Munyon a member of the Seraphim Music chorus in Seattle, sang the Fauré Requiem at a memorial service and found the performance especially moving.

Californian Michael Moss plays the message from his brother in New York that woke him on the morning of September 11.

Seattle resident Greg McFarlen recalls watching the news on September 11, but the only sound he remembers is the noise of his coffee cup dropping to the floor.

Composer Carl Seale wrote a procession for high school bands in the summer of 2001. After 9/11, he titled it The Procession of Souls.

New Jersey mom Carolyn Holl brought her twin sons to the top of the WTC and remembers hearing another mother telling her kids not to look at boring New Jersey but to look at cool Brooklyn instead . . .

Lauren Marshall, a native of Oregon, recalls visiting the WTC in 1979 and being amazed by the river of people on the escalators--it was the most people she has ever seen.

Washington State resident Gabriel Keenan left his small hometown to attend college in NYC. When he needed to escape the city noise, he would go to the top of the WTC.

USO man Donald Grady came to New York for Op-Sail in 1976 and went to the WTC. He remembers a small child who was scared at first to go up to the 110th floor but, after being persuaded to go, really enjoyed the view.

The Dowdens were scheduled to fly on 9/11 and found out about the attack on their way to the airport--they can't help feeling guilty. Elaine Dowden also describes a scrapbook they made to document a 1988 visit to the WTC with their children.

Trellis Dalembert describes the video she has of her son being born in Florida on 9/11. On the tape, the doctor comments that it's a special day to be born, and the baby cries.

Kathy Naughton, who lives in Seattle, attended the annual midwives convention at the WTC and loved it. She particularly remembers a jazz piano player she heard at Windows on the World.

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…

David Greenfield's son, Noam, was born two years ago on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year--so his birthday is September 11. The Greenfields have decided to celebrate Noam's birth on Rosh Hashanah every year rather than burden him with the date.