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Tom Munyon a member of the Seraphim Music chorus in Seattle, sang the Fauré Requiem at a memorial service and found the performance especially moving.

Californian Michael Moss plays the message from his brother in New York that woke him on the morning of September 11.

Seattle resident Greg McFarlen recalls watching the news on September 11, but the only sound he remembers is the noise of his coffee cup dropping to the floor.

Composer Carl Seale wrote a procession for high school bands in the summer of 2001. After 9/11, he titled it The Procession of Souls.

New Jersey mom Carolyn Holl brought her twin sons to the top of the WTC and remembers hearing another mother telling her kids not to look at boring New Jersey but to look at cool Brooklyn instead . . .

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.