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Wisconsin resident Anthony Tiafflo doesn't have a TV. When he finally got to a television and began watching the news on September 11, he saw a woman from his hometown posting flyers--and the person she was looking for was one of his friends, too.

International Telecom worker Dick Dingman, who lives in Nebraska, visited New York on business. He remembers sitting at restaurants in the financial district and hearing the sound of the water.

Maura, a native of Ireland, visited the WTC on September 7, 2001. She remembers a man who worked there--he spoke many languages and made the people in the elevator laugh.

Mohammed Anwar lost his uncle, a Cantor Fitzgerald employee, in the September 11 attacks. He remembers going to Windows on the World and meeting Richie Havens there.

Boston resident David Freed recalls a hearing woman interviewed on NPR after 9/11 who said she wanted to hold her husband's hand. Also, he remembers that PanAm had a heliport on top of the WTC in the 1970s.

Newsman Bill Einreinhofer recognized the WTC elevator announcement as being the voice of John Tillman, who worked with WPIX (channel 11) long ago.

Florida resident Larry Clement worked in theater in the mid-1980s. He remembers the WTC fondly, especially the Theatre Development Fund's TKTS booth at 2 WTC. It was always empty--his particular secret.

David Johnson plays a song he wrote after 9/11.

Poet Jude Rittenhouse reads a piece by Longfellow and her own poem, Letter from Planet Earth, September 2001

Jeff Cashdollar recorded Glenn Branca performing with a 100-guitar ensemble at the WTC plaza three weeks before September 11.

Becky Valdez's husband commuted to the WTC from upstate New York. He was there on the morning of September 11 but made it out alive. Their memory of the building is the sound of footsteps echoing in the lobby.

Donna Demming, who escaped from 1 World Financial Center on 9/11, says people thought at first that a helicopter had hit the tower. She took a ferry bound for Hoboken, then got on a train. As she was leaving, she saw the towers fall.

Boston resident Genevieve Carroll remembers the sounds of the WTC elevators and anxiety she could hear in the voices of people from different countries as the elevators went up.

Scott Friedman commutes to his job in NYC from Stamford, Connecticut. He calls from his car to describe the morning of September 11. He remembers the sound of his car and the traffic jam he sat in while watching the towers fall.

Jackie Murray says her sound is no sound, the defining silence.

Erwin Fry worked in 2 WTC for many years and remembers the building creaking on windy days.

An anonymous man calls to say he is sorry he never visited the towers and describes their beauty.

Ashley visited New York from the Berkshires when she was seven. Of her visit to the WTC, she remembers that she didn't trust the man-made mountains but that standing on the observation deck, with its silence and the wind, was like being on a…

Brian Parsons remembers catching sight of the WTC from the windows of airplanes. The sound he associates with the tower is the strange white noise of the airplane.

Indiana resident Chris Countryman feels it is important for the archive to include the sounds of the towers collapsing.