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St. Louis native Keith Nepper looks to the Gateway Arch as inspiration for rebuilding at Ground Zero. He points out that in the form of the arch, the two towers rely upon each other.

Eric Williams, a New York street reporter, was sent to cover the plane crash at the WTC at 8:45 a.m. He later recorded the sound of the collapsing buildings. His live coverage of the event was broadcast on WBAI.

Musician Steven Longfellow Fiske wrote song called "Out of the Ashes" for 9/11.

Charlie Samuels kept 25 messages from 9/11.

An anonymous woman offers her video of the towers falling on 9/11, as well as footage from the following week.

Art photographer Duncan McCosker describes the prophetic photographs he took of a turbaned figure with rocket and angels at a Carnival celebration.

Songwriter Victor Freedburg reads the lyrics of his work "Just One Cloud," inspired by walking around New York on 9/11--it was a painfully beautiful day. The song is performed by the band Spiritual Machine.

Sound designer Logan Susnick published a CD of sounds recorded at the WTC concourse in 2000.

Robert Bauer's son, Nathan, worked on the 52nd floor of 1 WTC--luckily, he was stuck in the subway the morning of 9/11. Bauer's daughter, Emilia, was in her NYU dorm with a view of the WTC. In response to the attacks, Bauer, who lives in Maine,…

Lorraine Stone, who was visiting France when the attacks happened, describes the reaction of the people there. She also kept her phone messages from that day.

Karen Schneider describes her daily commute from New Jersey to the WTC, the din of the crowd, and how she once lost a button on her way and could hear it fall in spite of the noise.

Alison Murphy was on the way to work in Kentucky when she heard about the attacks. She grew up in NJ and had watched the buildings being built. Later her mom, who had a view of the WTC from her deck, called to describe what was happening.

Heather Ordover is a teacher at the High School for Leadership and Public Service one block south of the WTC. On 9/11, the students were evacuated to Castle Clinton; Ordover could hear ash falling into the river. Later, they learned that their…

In 1998 James Burton and his wife Ann were married in the Valentine's Day Wedding Marathon on the roof deck of the WTC. There were "55 couples [110 people] to match the 110 stories of the building."

Captain D. C. Anderson grew up on New York Harbor and has worked there since the WTC was built. In all the hundreds of times he has sailed around the tip of Manhattan, he has never tired of the view.

Jon Pretnar has video footage of a sand mandala built by Tibetan monks in the lobby of the WTC around 1994.

On September 12, Allen Pierce rode his bike to Christopher Street and the West Side Highway to interview the crowd watching rescue workers.

Eric Milano was a friend of firefighter Christopher Pickford, who was killed on 9/11. Milano made a tribute CD that includes songs he wrote for his friend and other memorial material.

Michael Carpenter, who lived two blocks from the towers, offers the many voicemails he received on 9/11.

Broker Tony Jokes, who began working in the WTC soon after it opened, recalls a fire that damaged 1 WTC in 1973 and the 1993 bombing.