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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.

Filmmaker Katie McBride describes her plans to make a documentary about the residents of Battery Park City who were relocated after 9/11.

Wolf Loescher, a member of the Celtic rock band Jiggernaut, describes one of the group's songs, Legacy, which has taken on added meaning since 9/11.

Italian-American filmmaker Marco Ferrari talks about a video shoot he did at the WTC in 2000 that included the observation deck, view, and sculpture.

Jackie Herships, mother of artist Sally Herships, talks about her daughter's projects, Manhattan 9/11/01 and 366 Stories, which document the turn of the millennium in New York City.

Jan Bienhof, who worked from Minnesota as a mail service manager for the 90th to 97th floors of 1 WTC, talks about how the WTC server stopped responding at 12:47 GMT (or 8:47 a.m. EST). She also remarks on the way Peter Jennings lapses into a…

Bob Barkerher is a former WTC executive who later became a tour guide at the towers. He explains that the tops of the towers sway 11 feet on windy days and says that the people working above the 75th floor sometimes got seasick.

Washington State resident Susan Small was a graduate student in NYC in the 1970s. She remembers that the WTC was totally empty by 10:00 at night. She can still recall the sound of her leather sandals against the marble floors of the WTC atrium.

Violinist Emily McHugh used to play her Irish fiddle at the WTC on St. Patrick's Day.

King Lamb worked at the WTC years ago and remembers hearing a soft creaking from the walls--the eerie sound of the building swaying in the wind.

Alan Guttman reads a letter he wrote to the New York Times about the WTC climber, George Willig, in 1977.

Massachusetts resident Peter Bolger reads a letter he wrote to his Aunt Pat about visiting her in New York and seeing the Twin Towers.

An Iowa woman who visited her sister in NYC in the 1980s remembers looking up at the WTC observation deck from below. She saw what she thought was a bird in the sky, but it turned out to be a 747. Later, standing on the top of the building, she flew…

Deb Green remembers people looking at her unshaven legs while she was standing on the observation deck. She reads the haiku she wrote about the experience.

Molly Albadoui visited the WTC when she was ten. The sounds of the John Hancock Tower, where she now works in Boston, remind her of the WTC.

Gary Stephan talks about the barges that are being filled with the debris from the WTC. When the material hits the barges, there's a droning noise, a kind of drum roll.