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Sena Omotunde has been living in the United States for 15 years, but it wasn't until after 9/11 that she felt a powerful draw to become an American citizen.

Deborah Calandrillo lost her husband, Joseph, in the WTC attacks. On September 11th, she belatedly checked her email and recieved his last e-mail sent Friday before the attack. What, no more love and kisses? he wrote jokingly.

At Windows on the World not long ago, Joan Sulfur ran into a man she hadn't seen since the 1960s--they have since gotten married.

Marianne Engles came to Ground Zero after 9/11 with a San Diego disaster team. She found the sounds of the heavy equipment, the wrecking balls, very oppressive and vivid.

Adrianna Bravo, a young doctor at St. Vincent's Hospital, reads her journal entries from 9/11. She felt so unprepared for her first look at war and describes treating firemen and policemen.

Arizonan Kathleen Paul used to live on Long Island and remembers pulling off the road during her commute to watch the sun setting between the towers.

Oregonian Stan Strange recalls being awakened by a dog wailing on 9/11, something he has never heard before or since. He immediately knew something had happened.

Patricia O'Grady describes the turn-of-the-millennium party she attended on New Years at Windows on the World.

Chuck Hyman was working a block away from the WTC on 9/11. To him, the buildings were like friends, and he misses them. His family celebrated many special occasions at Windows on the World.

Miriam Lefkowitz is grieving for the lost towers. In the 1970s, she used to walk to the WTC from Banker's Trust and bicycle around. After she moved to New Jersey, she commuted on the PATH.

Steve Ohr wrote a story about an adventure he had on the 89th floor of the WTC in 1976.

Georgia resident Laurie Easterlin's 12-year-old daughter wrote a tribute to the people affected by 9/11; Easterlin reads the lyrics.

Nebraskan Lyn Norton recorded the reactions of people in her town to 9/11.

Helen Simpkin, whose sister Jane died on United flight 175 on September 11, reads her sister's poem entitled Why I Hate Dan Rather. Jane wrote it before September 11, but Helen now finds her sister's words painfully timely.

Gary Shelber, a native New Yorker who now lives in San Diego, recalls being stuck in a traffic jam on September 11. He is reluctant to revisit his former home, now without the WTC. He reads a poem he wrote about 9/11.

Carolyn Schunter, an EMT in Iowa, wonders why there is no news coverage of paramedics or the security guards who worked at the WTC.

Lydia Robertson's mother, Valerie Hanna, worked on the 97th floor of 1 WTC and was one of the victims of 9/11. Lydia talks about her mother's life--she had 40 foster children and was a senior vice president at Marsh & McLennan Technology.

The agent for the Latin band Son Boricua, talks about taking pride in the towers. The group played at the WTC; their song Boricua Blues was written for the WTC before 9/11.

Dina Vonsweck had to be evacuated from her home for 30 years, 3 blocks from the WTC. She reads a poem about that day.

Builder Joe Jocks's granddaughter Lynn Beauvais remembers Cane's Corner, where the Mohawk ironworkers would gather in the early 1960s. Her grandfather talked to her about working on the world's largest buildings, what it was like to be in New York.