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Matilda Lyubarsky talks about the voicemail her son left her as he saw the first plane crash into the tower.

Student AJ Yastremski describes jogging daily around the WTC--the business people running to their meetings, the sounds of the restaurants.

Celia Hartmann lives six blocks north of the WTC. She saved 24 phone messages from 9/11.

Jill Remmler's brother worked in the WTC, but he was running late the morning of 9/11. He videotaped it from across the water in New Jersey.

Noga Askenazi recommends songwriter Philip Springer's Flight 93 Spirit of America, which has represented her feelings for the past few months.

In 1985, when filmmaker Pam LeBlanc was working on her short documentary, Waiting Tables, about the pink-collar ghetto, she interviewed a waitress at Windows on the World. She has since tried--unsuccessfully--to find the woman again and hopes she was…

Swing dancer Robert Omelia videotaped many of the dances that were held at Windows on the World.

Nadine Robinson was an artist in residence at the WTC in 2000. For her piece Tower Hollas, she interviewed security guards and maintenance workers about what they did, what songs they listened to at work, and how they liked their jobs.

An anonymous man describes visiting the top of the towers. He considered them a masterpiece of our time.

Songwriter Jim Lutz wrote One Mile in the Sky after 9/11. Here it is performed by musicians from Austin, Texas.

New Yorker Mary Lou Difilippo plays the voicemail she received from a friend that alerted her to the attack. She called the friend back but cannot remember talking to him afterward.

John Eckstein was working at the WTC when the 1993 bombing took place. He describes being on CBS news at the time.

On 9/11 Janice Stern, an office worker in Wall Street, walked home covered with dirt. She tried to reach her twin, who was in France, and received messages from her college-student daughter, who feared she had died.

Arthur Rouse, a producer and director of promotions for the World Trade Centers Association, talks about WTCA president Guy Tozzoli. He describes Tozzoli's vision of peace and prosperity through international trade.

Pamela Irvine was working at Deutsche Bank across the street when the first tower fell. She ran away through the debris.

Classical guitarist Andrew Schulman recalls his first steady gig at Windows on the World in late 1970s. The last time he played there was in July 2001.

Poet Mike Farrahey reads a piece he composed after 9/11.

Mark Betyour recalls a wonderful evening of swing dancing at the Greatest Bar on Earth. The view from the 107th floor of the WTC made him think of an ethereal song called Talisman, by the French band, Air. He still has the matches he got from the…

College student Henry Vick was awakened the morning of September 11 by the fear in his mom's voice as she left a message on his answering machine.

Ray Szparagowski reads an excerpt from his poem about the U.S.