September 11: an oral history

In the North Tower

Teresa Veliz: A Prayer to die quickly and painlessly

David N. Frank and Michael Hingson: The gift of another life

Louis G. Lesce: Saved by a bang on the door

Irma Fuller: Getting help for two friends on 27C

Saravanan Rangaswamy: An immigrant's first day on the job

George and Stephen Sleigh: A father one floor from certain death, a frantic son an ocean away

Gerry Gaeta: Of lost friends, family and buildings

In the South Tower

Roselyn Braud: A mother's run for her life

Brian Clark: An executive, in a bubble, to the rescue

Stephen Miller: Questioning authority as a way of life

Patrick McNelis and Ellen DiMaggio: A bond broker and his golf caps from Arkansas

Martin Glynn: In praise of a policewoman about to die

Jennifer Doyna: A fateful decision in the stairwell

Michael A. Lyons: Missing and feared dead

On the Outside

Richard and Cathy Brown: A family's walk through the valley of the shadow of death

Paul Engel: A priest with a heavy and angry heart

Ed Stawarz: A rooftop view into the windows of a doomed jetliner

Rachel Landman: At high school, trying to dance the cha-cha

Kimberly Morales: A college student's unplanned lesson in suicide

Dick Heffernan: A son found, but still an empty seat on the train

Tonya Young: Giving up on a dream in New York City

Patricia Ryan: Living in a neighborhood under arrest

Melissa Johnson: Alone and afraid in a big city

To the Rescue

Ernest Amrstead: Tormented by a conversation with death

Bill Beaury: A police officer loses his friends and his passion

John Citarella: A Fire Academy instructor buried in the collapse

Michael Currid: A fire captain mourns a beloved chaplain

Anthony R. Whitaker: A police commander fears his lost memory

Narrow Escapes

Richard Moller: Cutting it as close as a cup of coffee

Greg Miller: Sleeping-in the last morning of a New York vacation

Peter J. Genova: A changed commute, a saved life

In the Pentagon

Tracy Webb: Her hair burning, she follows a voice to safety

Paul K. Carlton, Jr.: A surgeon general in the line of fire

Karl Van Deusen: A Navy commander saved by a window

Victor Correa: An Army Officer knocked down but not out

Janet Deltuva: In the Air Force, putting duty before fears and tears

John Jester: Trying to protect the Pentagon against the unthinkable.