10th Anniversary Collection

My wife and I were waiting in Tenerife Canary Islands to cross the Atlantic in our small sailboat which would have completed our 7 year circumnavigation. We were berthed next to a friendly Spanish Gentleman. Which only spoke Spanish. Shortly after…

My wife and I were waiting in Tenerife Canary Islands to cross the Atlantic in our small sailboat which would have completed our 7 year circumnavigation. We were berthed next to a friendly Spanish Gentleman. Which only spoke Spanish. Shortly after…

My wife and I were waiting in Tenerife Canary Islands to cross the Atlantic in our small sailboat which would have completed our 7 year circumnavigation. We were berthed next to a friendly Spanish Gentleman. Which only spoke Spanish. Shortly after…

My parents and teachers say that I am too young to remember 9/11, and no one else my age has any memories of that day. But for some reason, I remember almost every detail of that day. It was a bright, bright day, one of the those days when it is…

On September 11, I was working in the Rayburn Building on Capitol Hill, just a few short yards from the Capitol. In the cafeteria people were talking about the plane that hit the Pentagon, and we could see the smoke, but it seemed to me another Air…

On September 11, 2001 I was nine years old sitting on the bean bag chair in my elementary school library. My classmates and I were waiting for our library teacher to begin her lesson when our art teacher burst into the room, with an energy that we…

It changed in many ways but the biggest is I don't anything for granted

It's changed because people say that I was alive on September 11. It was a big part because I didn't know what was going on when I was three. It just changed because I never knew what was happening and I wasn't scared because I was three.

I have no time for hatred. I look into the eyes of soldiers; I listen to the voices of world leaders; I hear the spirituality in different faiths, and all I can think is, we have no time for hate. Life is too short, and I think most of us learned…

Since Sept. 11, 2001, my life has changed. Since I was so young when the events unfolded, I quickly learned the United States is not invincible. We are not loved by everyone in the world, and we are not the strongest nation out there, but we have the…

Considering i was in the third grade when the attacks happened my life has not changed much. However, it made me realize that life is too short and I need to live everyday as if it were my last. I thank God everyday that none of my family memebers…

World Trade Center, photograph by Elizabeth Periale, c. 1991

One of the most beautiful buildings in New York, my favorite place to have lunch when I worked downtown.

Walking along Canal Street, after 9 am, September 11.

I could not believe what I was seeing and spent several days in complete shock and denial before I could accept what had happened. It was too enormous. When I came to where I thought I had gained some acceptance, some new horror would be revealed…

I watched the events of the morning of September 11, 2001 unfold on live television from my home in Boston. That morning, a roommate told me he had just heard on the radio that a plan had crashed into one of the World Trade Center Towers, and we…

This is a Peter Gabriel song with scanner traffic from that morning added in.

I've fairly well recovered but it has taken time. I have to take the subways at times but don't like to especially around 42nd Street.

September 11th, 2001 was my first encounter with true loss. Death was something I knew about, and claimed to understand, but it didn't become real until that day. I was only eleven years old. Many people would say that I was "too young" to have any…

I was at school a few blocks away from World Trade Center when I heard the sound of a jet engine flying overhead followed by a loud explosion and the ringing of a car alarm. My teach went out and soon came back saying, "the whole of the Twin Towers…