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RJ, a former flight attendant, always loved the Twin Towers.

Scot McCluskey, a Lutheran pastor who lives in Nebraska, wrote a song based on Romans 8:38-39 that reflects on the events of 9/11.

David Fridell is saddened that the crashes at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania receive so little attention.

Tennessean Randy Bragg tells how his ten-year-old daughter dealt with 9/11 by pretending to be a newscaster reporting the events.

To Jessica Webbington, who lives in Los Angeles, the documentary film The Cruise, about a New York tour guide named Timothy Speed Levitch, is an inspired portrait of the city.

Texan Allison Downey, a songwriter, wrote On the Day to raise money to help with the cause.

Virginia-based recording artist Dan Dibble wrote a song to celebrate the spirit of firefighters and rescue workers. He is donating the profits to the Red Cross.

Connecticut resident Ross Pinell visited the towers several years ago. He is haunted by the sound of the wind reverberating in the façades of the buildings.

An anonymous Latino man talks about all the people from Latin America who worked the late shift at the WTC. He describes how the towers were filled with music while the overnight maintenance staff did their work.

Dan Jassen descibes how he taped the national moment of silence on September 14, 2001, turning the radio dial across all the stations to record the absence of sound.

Kathleen Schroeder recalls listening to the radio on 9/11. She hopes it will be possible for the Sonic Memorial to include the communications of ordinary citizens as they tried to contact loved ones that day.

Dave's father worked right across from the WTC in the 1960s and 1970s and took slides of the WTC being built.

Filmmaker Katie McBride describes her plans to make a documentary about the residents of Battery Park City who were relocated after 9/11.

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.

Italian-American filmmaker Marco Ferrari talks about a video shoot he did at the WTC in 2000 that included the observation deck, view, and sculpture.

Jackie Herships, mother of artist Sally Herships, talks about her daughter's projects, Manhattan 9/11/01 and 366 Stories, which document the turn of the millennium in New York City.

Jan Bienhof, who worked from Minnesota as a mail service manager for the 90th to 97th floors of 1 WTC, talks about how the WTC server stopped responding at 12:47 GMT (or 8:47 a.m. EST). She also remarks on the way Peter Jennings lapses into a…

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.

Washington State resident Susan Small was a graduate student in NYC in the 1970s. She remembers that the WTC was totally empty by 10:00 at night. She can still recall the sound of her leather sandals against the marble floors of the WTC atrium.

Violinist Emily McHugh used to play her Irish fiddle at the WTC on St. Patrick's Day.