Sept. 11

The leader of the Old 97s lived three blocks from the World Trace Center towers and he and his girlfriend Erica were home when the planes hit. He reads from a diary he kept that day.

The painter, Stephen Hannock, says on the morning of September 11, while he was scrambling around his New York apartment to get his family safely out of lower Manhattan, his wife found out that she had a brain tumor.

A decade later, the repercussions of the terrorists attacks on Sept. 11 continue to be felt on a daily basis by ordinary New Yorkers.

On Sept. 11 Michael Benfante carried a woman in a wheelchair down 68 floors of the north tower of the World Trade Center to safety. Everyone called him a hero, but ten years on he can’t stop thinking of the firemen he passed on the way down.

After Sept. 11, many American Muslims felt the need to explain that they weren’t terrorists. 37-year old Rais Bhuiyan didn’t get the chance.

We want to hear your Sept. 11 memories. Where were you that day and what are your thoughts ten years later?

On Sept. 11, Colonel Dan Nash and Colonel Tim Duffy were on duty at Otis National Guard Base in Massachusetts when word came of a possible hijacking.

At least 16 people lost twins on Sept. 11, one of them is Pamela Bittner of Boston– her brother Jeffrey was working in the World Trade Center when the planes hit.

Culture critic Jeffrey Melnick says the multiple traumas of Sept. 11 are woven all through American books, movies and music ten years on.

This year’s anniversary of the September 11th attacks is the first since the man responsible for that day was killed. And some experts ask even though Osama bin Laden is gone, has he achieved his goal of destabilizing the U.S. and knocking it from its perch as the predominant world power?