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Heather Ordover is a teacher at the High School for Leadership and Public Service one block south of the WTC. On 9/11, the students were evacuated to Castle Clinton; Ordover could hear ash falling into the river. Later, they learned that their…

In 1998 James Burton and his wife Ann were married in the Valentine's Day Wedding Marathon on the roof deck of the WTC. There were "55 couples [110 people] to match the 110 stories of the building."

Captain D. C. Anderson grew up on New York Harbor and has worked there since the WTC was built. In all the hundreds of times he has sailed around the tip of Manhattan, he has never tired of the view.

Jon Pretnar has video footage of a sand mandala built by Tibetan monks in the lobby of the WTC around 1994.

On September 12, Allen Pierce rode his bike to Christopher Street and the West Side Highway to interview the crowd watching rescue workers.

Eric Milano was a friend of firefighter Christopher Pickford, who was killed on 9/11. Milano made a tribute CD that includes songs he wrote for his friend and other memorial material.

Michael Carpenter, who lived two blocks from the towers, offers the many voicemails he received on 9/11.

Broker Tony Jokes, who began working in the WTC soon after it opened, recalls a fire that damaged 1 WTC in 1973 and the 1993 bombing.

Downtown resident Daniel Goode will never forget the roar of the first plane as it passed his apartment window on 9/11 or the sound of wrecking ball at Ground Zero.

Patrick Donnelly, poet and small press editor in Tribeca, offers a peom he wrote.

Brooke Ashworth, who has worked in skyscrapers, talks about the sound of the elevators encapsulating the experience of the building.

Cirque du Soleil consultant Don Richards talks about "We Reinvent the Circus," which the troupe performed at the WTC in the 1988.

New Yorker Nancy Meyer attended a post-9/11 concert and loves "The Bravest," Tom Paxton's song for firefighters.

Phillip Traugott plays the voicemail he received from his wife at 9:00 a.m. on September 11 as she was watching the towers from SoHo.

An anonymous woman recommends two Channel 13 programs. "Souls of New York" included an interview with an observation deck guide, and "The Elevator" had a segment about a man who was trapped in the WTC elevator during the 1993 attack and escaped.

Alex Bontilla sang backup in the elegy song for John Buckey, a man who worked at Cantor Fitzgerald.

Radio Producer Warren Levinson describes the annual WTC Valentine's Day wedding marathon.

Victor Demarco lives in Battery Park City. He had left for work on 9/11 but went back to his neighborhood to look for his wife during the attack. He describes voicemails left for him while he was out.

Photographer Joel Meyerowitz started taking pictures at the WTC in 1981. In this interview with Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air, recorded on October 23, 2001, he talks about trying to photograph the events of 9/11. Part 4: The pain Meyerowitz felt…

Ellen Lytle, who lives six blocks away from Ground Zero, remembers 9/11 in this interview, recorded on March 6, 2002.