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Arthur Rouse, a producer and director of promotions for the World Trade Centers Association, talks about WTCA president Guy Tozzoli. He describes Tozzoli's vision of peace and prosperity through international trade.

Pamela Irvine was working at Deutsche Bank across the street when the first tower fell. She ran away through the debris.

Classical guitarist Andrew Schulman recalls his first steady gig at Windows on the World in late 1970s. The last time he played there was in July 2001.

Poet Mike Farrahey reads a piece he composed after 9/11.

Mark Betyour recalls a wonderful evening of swing dancing at the Greatest Bar on Earth. The view from the 107th floor of the WTC made him think of an ethereal song called Talisman, by the French band, Air. He still has the matches he got from the…

College student Henry Vick was awakened the morning of September 11 by the fear in his mom's voice as she left a message on his answering machine.

Ray Szparagowski reads an excerpt from his poem about the U.S.

Eva Berry reads the prayer that "wrote itself through her" on 9/11.

An anonymous man from Idaho was heartened by Jon Stewart's Daily Show on Comedy Central. During Stewart's first monologue after 9/11, he talked about the view from his downtown apartment--how he once looked out at the WTC but now had a view of the…

Father Jeff Hurley tells how September 11 was his twin daughters' first time at the beach on Martha's Vineyard. He offers video of that day, before they heard the news, as a token of lost innocence.

Teacher Romolo Deldayo remembers the grade school and kindergarten graduation concert in June 2001 as the last pre-9/11 event at PS 234. The plane flew right overhead on September 11, one of the first days of school that fall.

Harold Levine was on his way to New York from Washington, D.C., on September 11. He describes flying over the towers at 8:30 that morning. Levine also remembers his participation in a run against violence up the stairs of the WTC.

When Bill McDonald proposed to his wife, he first arranged luminaries in a pattern on the landfill across the street, then took her up to the top of the WTC to see the view.

Felicity, a former Barnard student, reminisces about her summer job in NYC and the sound of the trains in the subway under the WTC.

Brooklynite Cindy Jeffers offers the voicemail messages she received on 9/11.

Joan met an AT&T employee named Boo. When she was assigned to document the timing of calls from 9/11, Boo felt as though she were invading people's privacy during their last moments.

Cindy Weil, a downtown resident, used her digital video recorder to capture her experiences on 9/11. In the background, you can hear sirens, Cindy's baby, and friends calling.

Cheryl Moch, a resident of Battery Park City, talks about the voicemail she received on 9/11 from a friend who thought it was a small plane that hit the building. She also tells how a friend of a friend had to run for cover from the falling debris.

Mark Farago, a resident of Wharton, NJ, was moved by a news segment on Channel 12 that featured kids from a local school, St. Mary's, singing about 9/11.

Shaun Gerien is a reporter for WSHU Long Island. He describes working on two WTC-related stories--one about a firefighter and the other an interview with an office worker.