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New Yorker Beth Faracy recommends various radio programs dealing with 9/11.

Artist Carola Dertnig had a studio in the WTC through the World Views Program. She describes a video she made of the office space, plaza, and people.

NPR reporter Mandalit del Barco worked on a story about corridos (Mexican folk ballads) dealing with 9/11 for Morning Edition. She offers to share the songs.

Video artists Alex Heilner and Amy Baxt describe the sounds on a video Alex made of the WTC area and play voicemails of an exchange between Amy and her dad on 9/11.

Downtown Manhattan poet Max Blagg describes the poem he wrote about walking his daughter to school on 9/11.

Jill Goodkind dropped off her children at P.S. 234 by the WTC just before she saw the plane crash.

New York resident Sara Bruya describes the meeting she attended three days after September 11. Group members were united in their call for peace.

Matilda Lyubarsky talks about the voicemail her son left her as he saw the first plane crash into the tower.

Student AJ Yastremski describes jogging daily around the WTC--the business people running to their meetings, the sounds of the restaurants.

Celia Hartmann lives six blocks north of the WTC. She saved 24 phone messages from 9/11.

Jill Remmler's brother worked in the WTC, but he was running late the morning of 9/11. He videotaped it from across the water in New Jersey.

Noga Askenazi recommends songwriter Philip Springer's Flight 93 Spirit of America, which has represented her feelings for the past few months.

In 1985, when filmmaker Pam LeBlanc was working on her short documentary, Waiting Tables, about the pink-collar ghetto, she interviewed a waitress at Windows on the World. She has since tried--unsuccessfully--to find the woman again and hopes she was…

Swing dancer Robert Omelia videotaped many of the dances that were held at Windows on the World.

Nadine Robinson was an artist in residence at the WTC in 2000. For her piece Tower Hollas, she interviewed security guards and maintenance workers about what they did, what songs they listened to at work, and how they liked their jobs.

An anonymous man describes visiting the top of the towers. He considered them a masterpiece of our time.

Songwriter Jim Lutz wrote One Mile in the Sky after 9/11. Here it is performed by musicians from Austin, Texas.

New Yorker Mary Lou Difilippo plays the voicemail she received from a friend that alerted her to the attack. She called the friend back but cannot remember talking to him afterward.

John Eckstein was working at the WTC when the 1993 bombing took place. He describes being on CBS news at the time.

On 9/11 Janice Stern, an office worker in Wall Street, walked home covered with dirt. She tried to reach her twin, who was in France, and received messages from her college-student daughter, who feared she had died.