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Sound editor and designer Ben Cheah recorded the elevators at WTC the month before the attacks.

Wally Siegel and his wife had their 25th wedding anniversary and vow renewal at Windows on the World--they've now been married for 42 years. Siegel describes being "married in the clouds."

Lucien Samaha was a DJ at the Greatest Bar on Earth every week for nearly 5 years. He describes these parties at the top of the WTC.

Elisa Karp plays the recording she made throughout the day on 9/11. In this audio journal, she talks to friends, sends instant messages, and looks out from her uptown apartment.

Eva Garfield was house-sitting in the Village on September 11. In these voicemails saved by her boyfriend in Germany, she describes listening to the NPR news that day and how she stood on Greenwich Street and watched the towers fall.

Christian Blom talks about Spanish composer Francesco Lopez who recorded sounds of the room and electronics, sounds of the building posted as a tribute.