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King Lamb worked at the WTC years ago and remembers hearing a soft creaking from the walls--the eerie sound of the building swaying in the wind.

Alan Guttman reads a letter he wrote to the New York Times about the WTC climber, George Willig, in 1977.

Massachusetts resident Peter Bolger reads a letter he wrote to his Aunt Pat about visiting her in New York and seeing the Twin Towers.

An Iowa woman who visited her sister in NYC in the 1980s remembers looking up at the WTC observation deck from below. She saw what she thought was a bird in the sky, but it turned out to be a 747. Later, standing on the top of the building, she flew…

Deb Green remembers people looking at her unshaven legs while she was standing on the observation deck. She reads the haiku she wrote about the experience.

Molly Albadoui visited the WTC when she was ten. The sounds of the John Hancock Tower, where she now works in Boston, remind her of the WTC.

Gary Stephan talks about the barges that are being filled with the debris from the WTC. When the material hits the barges, there's a droning noise, a kind of drum roll.

Katie George visited New York from New Mexico years ago. She remembers the sound of the flushing toilet at the WTC--it was a unique noise, high-powered and industrial.

Kate Tour is afraid of heights. When saw a picture of two people holding hands and jumping off the tower on 9/11, she thought they must be the bravest people in the world.

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…

Ian Hochberg, who lives in Maryland, visited the WTC in the 1970s and remembers the silence on the observation deck. He visited Ground Zero in October and was again struck by the silence amid the destruction.

On September 10, 2001, Nashville songwriter Joe Nolan wrote Blue Turns Black, a song so serious that he wondered where the emotions had come from. The next day, the composition suddenly made more sense.

Oregonian Cheri Goodwin went to the top of the WTC on Superbowl Sunday. She remembers all the foreigners, the sounds of the wind in the plaza, yelling, and having fun.

Stephanie Menser, who lives in Seattle, would like the voices from NPR on September 11 to be preserved. The broadcasts made her feel connected to events happening 3,000 miles away.

Robin Greenstein was a temp at the WTC and often went swing dancing at Windows on the World after work. She recalls the sound of the elevators. She saved the messages she received from friends in Denmark on 9/11.

A New Yorker who now lives in California, Tim Landek watched the WTC being built from his grandmother's apartment.

Kansan Anne Foster has never been to NYC, but she says NPR host Bob Edwards' calm announcement when the first tower collapsed has stuck in her audio memory.

Idaho resident Al Kristal visited New York last January and watched the silent film Nosferatu at the World Financial Center. The Club Foot Orchestra provided a live soundtrack for the movie. He thinks this music would be great to have as a memorial…

Jason Muller of Chicago remembers riding the elevators up to Windows on the World. He recalls feeling deaf after stepping off the elevator--it seemed so silent with the air pressure change.

Sara Lucas Torpey was in England for her father's funeral on 9/11. She watched the British news with her American husband--it felt disconnected and strange.