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Lauren Marshall, a native of Oregon, recalls visiting the WTC in 1979 and being amazed by the river of people on the escalators--it was the most people she has ever seen.

Washington State resident Gabriel Keenan left his small hometown to attend college in NYC. When he needed to escape the city noise, he would go to the top of the WTC.

USO man Donald Grady came to New York for Op-Sail in 1976 and went to the WTC. He remembers a small child who was scared at first to go up to the 110th floor but, after being persuaded to go, really enjoyed the view.

The Dowdens were scheduled to fly on 9/11 and found out about the attack on their way to the airport--they can't help feeling guilty. Elaine Dowden also describes a scrapbook they made to document a 1988 visit to the WTC with their children.

Trellis Dalembert describes the video she has of her son being born in Florida on 9/11. On the tape, the doctor comments that it's a special day to be born, and the baby cries.

Kathy Naughton, who lives in Seattle, attended the annual midwives convention at the WTC and loved it. She particularly remembers a jazz piano player she heard at Windows on the World.

Michelle Martinez visited New York from California in 1984. She reads a postcard she wrote about the WTC during her trip and meant to send to her brother. That brother now lives in New York; he watched the towers fall on 9/11. She rediscovered the…

David Greenfield's son, Noam, was born two years ago on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year--so his birthday is September 11. The Greenfields have decided to celebrate Noam's birth on Rosh Hashanah every year rather than burden him with the date.

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.