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Sister Eileen Fickner, a Salesian nun who lives in New York, remembers the awesome silence on the streets after 9/11.

Floridian Rosie Fussell is mourning for America. She feels the Sonic Memorial project will be healing.

Jodie Anderson describes being new to New York and meeting friends at the glamorous Windows on the World.

On 9/11 Mike Cohen thought of the scene from the movie Godspell in which the cast dances on the top of the still-unfinished WTC.

In the late 1970s Ohio resident Bruce Kinney went hiking at Bear Mountain in the Hudson Valley. He recalls seeing bands of orange light in the sky that he realized were reflections of the sun on the WTC towers.

Ferris Cook describes a short super-8 animated film that she made about the WTC in 1973.

Richard Wolf remembers the way the WNYC Morning Edition radio broadcast sound cut out as the tower burned.

Mike Roche recommends looking for sound from videotape made by ENG (electronic news gathering) cameramen.

Commuter Tish remembers the ding-ding of the PATH train--it doesn't sound the same now that it goes to 9th Street. She also misses the mall below the WTC because it was a fun meeting place.

Annie Goodman traveled to NYC from Colorado to attend her best friend's wedding reception at Windows on World in the 1980s. The elevator ride made her sick, but the view was great.

This anonymous caller belongs to the New York Association of Hotel Concierges. They held an annual banquet at Windows on the World and he has video footage of the event.

In the 1970s, Douglas Kravenhoft snuck into the unfinished second tower when it was under construction. By hiding from construction crews, he was able to make it to the highest floor that had been built.

The son of a friend of Michael Spear's began working in the WTC two weeks before 9/11. He remembers the sounds of loved ones mourning this boy.

Brandon Perrault, an elementary music teacher in New Mexico, wrote a song called "The Twin Towers," which the schoolchildren like.

Folk music event director Lorne Clarke from Pennsylvania describes the blind songwriter Donna Hill, who sang about Dan Rather and the news.

Mary Carswell wrote a story about being in the ash-covered downtown New York after 9/11.

Shirley Velazquez talks about the voicemails she received on 9/11 from her boyfriend, who is a New York EMT, as well as from her mom and a friend.

Ann Flax, who was born in NYC, was working downtown in 1989. She remembers buying two cassette tapes of Andino music near the WTC and attending outdoor concerts at the WTC at lunchtime. To her, those sounds will always be associated with the WTC.

Tom Van Buren is the director at the Center for Traditional Music and Dance near Ground Zero. He produced events at the WTC and has a tape archive.

Musician Tom Monte and his wife cowrote an R&B gospel song called Phoenix about 9/11.