Unity after World Trade Center Attacks -- Survivors, Victims, Memorials


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Ways to Help

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American Red Cross or call 1-800-HELP-N0W

Americares or call 1-800-486-4357

America's Second Harvest, the national umbrella organization of food.

Cantor Fitzgerald Fund for Survivors of World Trade Center Attack Victims a relief fund for survivors of its employees. Donate online or call 1-800-446-0500

Catholic Charities USA

Feed The Children

Helping.org

Mercy Corps Donate online or call 800-852-2100

New York Police & Fire Widows' and Children's Benefit Fund P.O.Box 3713, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163

Salvation Army 1-800-SAL-ARMY

United Way September 11th Fund United Way, 2 Park Ave, New York, New York, 10016 or call: 1-800-710-8002

Windows of Hope Family Relief Fund

World Vision's American Relief Fund 1-888-511-6593

Adopt a Family -- help provide long-term support for a specific family

Donate to a variety of funds administered by the World Trade Center Miracles Foundation

Heroes, Survivors, and Witnesses

Stories from the archives of People Magazine

The following people were involved in transferring skin for skin grafts:

Ellen Heck -- director of the Transplant Services Center at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

We were told that nothing was flying except Defense Department flights. I spent a long time on the telephone trying to organize an Air Force transfer of the skin ... more >>

Matthew Harris -- medical technician

I'm at the wheel and I'm wide awake. I feel numb ... more >>

Eddie Perryman -- medical technician

We stored the skin in foil pouches on liquid nitrogen and then put it on dry ice ... more >>

Omar Wasow -- Internet executive

I was outside when the first building collapsed and just started running down the street ... more >>

Lt. Gregg Hansson -- firefighter

After the first plane crash, we made our way into the building, and up the stairs to the 35th floor ... more >>

Kenneth Johannemann -- janitor

My shift is 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. I'm always on time, but today I got lucky because I went on the 30th floor ... more >>

Mark J. Heath -- physician

I was working at my home when my wife called with the news. I knew I had to go help ... more >>

Saade Mustafa -- electrician

My first thought was, 'I hope the terrorists are not Arab' ... more >>

Louie Cacchioli -- firefighter

We were the first ones in the second tower after the plane struck ... more >>

Kim White -- administrative assistant on the 80th floor of 1 World Trade Center

All of a sudden the building shook, then it started to sway ... more >>

Bob Borski -- financial director six blocks from the World Trade Center saw United Airlines Flight 175 heading for the second tower

It just doesn't fit into your mind -- I'm used to seeing planes and helicopters disappear behind the building ... more >>

Richard Egües -- investment banker emerged from the downtown 2 subway line

On the street I saw crowds of people looking south. I looked up and saw gaping holes in both towers ... more >>

Carl Cunneff -- oil broker who works at the World Financial Center, located across the street from the WTC

I was taking cover beneath the overhang of a building when I saw this big booklet fall from the sky and land on the sidewalk ... more >>

John Frey -- Stock Exchange specialist on Wall Street

It was dark out with debris, like nighttime but you could see. It was snowing debris ... more >>

Sandy Silverman -- homemaker

I turned on the TV. I was screaming. I thought the worst ... more >>

Ben Fountain -- financial analyst headed for his office on the 47th floor of the south tower

How could they let this happen? They knew this building was a target ... more >>

Mel Immergut -- chairman of the international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, based across the street from the World Trade Center

... we have hundreds of people unaccounted for ... more >>

Dan Monchek -- stock broker on the 26th floor of 1 World Trade just before the first plane hit

I'm down there in the lobby and it looks like something you'd see in the Third World ... more >>

David Schnitzer -- Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield manager

Going across to New Jersey, we watched the towers burn ... more >>

Stories from the archives of CNN.Com

Phil Oye -- information architect

I look up and see what now everyone has seen on TV -- a huge gaping hole on the north side of Tower One ... more >>

Ron Saladino -- World Trade Center survivor

I saw individuals jumping, free falling for about 5 seconds to the ground -- they just fell from top to bottom. ... more >>

Louis Lesce -- World Trade Center survivor

... about five minutes or six minutes into descending, the lights went out ... more >>

Rose Marie Arce -- CNN reporter living in New York

I was in my apartment in downtown Manhattan when I heard a tremendous explosion ... more >>

Stories from Irish Abroad's Irish Tribute web site

Roger Hawke -- World Trade Center survivor

Even the windowpanes seemed to bend ... more >>

Michael Dorgan -- New York City Fireman

All we kept saying was that we couldn't fathom this, it was too unbelievable for words ... more >>

Tom Deignan -- friend of World Trade Center employee

It was the last time I would set my eyes on the World Trade Center ... more >>