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Author and professor Angus Kress Gillespie discusses how far one had to be from the WTC in order to get a good view of the towers.

New Jersey resident Nancy Boss always used to look at the New York skyline when she was driving on Route 22--she still does. She never realized before what the WTC meant to her.

Coumbia University [collected 9/11/01] On-campus Events Announcement

Ashley visited New York from the Berkshires when she was seven. Of her visit to the WTC, she remembers that she didn't trust the man-made mountains but that standing on the observation deck, with its silence and the wind, was like being on a…

Moments With The Book [collected 2001 9/21-9/29] Religious Statement

Moments With The Book [collected 2001 9/21-9/29] Religious Statement [2 of 3]

Moments With The Book [collected 2001 9/21-9/29] Postcard [1 of 3]

NYU Peace Coalition [collected 2001 10/2-10/10] Political Statement

The author asks, "The intelligence community could not connect the dots, was the lack of political appointees on the job a reason why?"

Philip Armor, a visitor to New York from Santa Fe, remembers feeling like he had made it when he drove around the monolithic, silent Twin Towers just two months before 9/11.

Brian Smith, now living in Texas, recalls working in 1 WTC. On weekends, when it was quiet, the sound of the tower creaking reminded him of a sailing ship in the wind.

[Flash file, anonymous, 2001?, untimed] A flash file in the form of a game in which OBL is the chained prisoner and the viewer the torturer. Effects are rather surgical.

Robert Olin works at Thatcher, Thomas and Wood, which was on the 38th to 40th floors of 2 WTC. He had videotaped the office two weeks before 9/11.