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Margaret Lobato, who lives in Utah, wrote a poem called Twin Towers USA 9/11 2001 in five verses describing what she felt and saw on 9/11.

Publisher John Rollins lost his best friend, Mike, who worked at Cantor Fitzgerald. He is cataloging such items as CDs of Mike's favorite songs and video footage of his life.

John Weber remarks that just as people know where they were when JFK was shot, now they'll remember when they first heard about the Twin Towers. John was on Route 18 in New Jersey on his way to work.

Colorado poet Orfeo reads DIA the Day After, which he wrote on September 14, 2001. DIA stands for Denver International Airport.

An anonymous woman from Kansas describes absolute silence as the only sound she can relate to the tragedy.

Lewis talks about Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, the last band that played in the WTC plaza.

Steve Duniec came up to NYC from North Carolina a few days before 9/11. He had a doorman take a photo of him with his wife and the WTC in background.

Wisconsin resident Anthony Tiafflo doesn't have a TV. When he finally got to a television and began watching the news on September 11, he saw a woman from his hometown posting flyers--and the person she was looking for was one of his friends, too.

International Telecom worker Dick Dingman, who lives in Nebraska, visited New York on business. He remembers sitting at restaurants in the financial district and hearing the sound of the water.

Maura, a native of Ireland, visited the WTC on September 7, 2001. She remembers a man who worked there--he spoke many languages and made the people in the elevator laugh.

Mohammed Anwar lost his uncle, a Cantor Fitzgerald employee, in the September 11 attacks. He remembers going to Windows on the World and meeting Richie Havens there.

Boston resident David Freed recalls a hearing woman interviewed on NPR after 9/11 who said she wanted to hold her husband's hand. Also, he remembers that PanAm had a heliport on top of the WTC in the 1970s.

Newsman Bill Einreinhofer recognized the WTC elevator announcement as being the voice of John Tillman, who worked with WPIX (channel 11) long ago.

Florida resident Larry Clement worked in theater in the mid-1980s. He remembers the WTC fondly, especially the Theatre Development Fund's TKTS booth at 2 WTC. It was always empty--his particular secret.

David Johnson plays a song he wrote after 9/11.

Poet Jude Rittenhouse reads a piece by Longfellow and her own poem, Letter from Planet Earth, September 2001

Jeff Cashdollar recorded Glenn Branca performing with a 100-guitar ensemble at the WTC plaza three weeks before September 11.

Becky Valdez's husband commuted to the WTC from upstate New York. He was there on the morning of September 11 but made it out alive. Their memory of the building is the sound of footsteps echoing in the lobby.

Donna Demming, who escaped from 1 World Financial Center on 9/11, says people thought at first that a helicopter had hit the tower. She took a ferry bound for Hoboken, then got on a train. As she was leaving, she saw the towers fall.

Boston resident Genevieve Carroll remembers the sounds of the WTC elevators and anxiety she could hear in the voices of people from different countries as the elevators went up.