9-11: In Memoriam

1. 9-11: In Memoriam New York

2. World Trade Center Construction 1968-1972

3. WTC Memorial Video

4. 9-11 Memorial Construction Time Lapse video

5. National 9/11 Memorial- World Trade Center- New York City

6. One World Trade Center Spire: Time Lapse Spire Rising- 2013

7. Old and New World Trade Center before 2001 and after 2011

8. Freedom

9. Foot prints Everyone leaves foot prints; echoes of their lives for others to remember them by. Your assignment is to write your own “foot print”, how you would want to be remembered. You will write it in the “second person”: “he was”, “she was”. It is to be a minimum of two paragraphs, but no more than three para- graphs. Here are some examples…

10. Gordy Aamoth Gordy Aamoth was at the top of his game. His golf was improving, and he had a membership in the Creek Club in Locust Valley, N.Y. He had girlfriends. And on Monday, Sept. 10, in his hometown of Minneapolis, he completed his biggest merger deal as an investment banker at Sandler O'Neill & Partners. The deal was to be officially announced the next day at the firm's World Trade Center office. Mr. Aamoth, 32, was always a good athlete. He was the captain of his high school football team and played hockey. He went to Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., and earned a business degree. "He always knew he wanted to go to Wall Street," said his father, Gordon. Gordy Aamoth also loved parties and how he looked. "Every situation was more fun when Gordy was there," said his mother, Mary. "He was always beautifully put together." Despite entreaties to consider returning to Minneapolis, GordyAamoth was determined to stay in New York, even if it was far from his family. "He loved New York," his father said. "He often said, 'You had to know it to love it, and most people don't.' " But there will be a touch of Gordy Aamoth at home. His high school, the Blake School, has decided to name its new football field the Gordy Aamoth Memorial Stadium.

11. Alona Abraham The first 10 days of September were giddy ones for Alona Abraham, who was in Boston on her first trip to the United States. She went whale-watching, shopping and walking in Cambridge, said Dror Veisman, a college friend with whom she stayed. "She said, `Oh, Mommy, I'm having a great time,' " said Miriam Abraham, her mother, who lives in Ashdod, Israel. "She was laughing and talking about going on picnics and sightseeing with her friends." Ms. Abraham, 30 -- the eldest of three children and daughter of Israeli immigrants from Bombay -- worked long hours at Applied Materials , where she was an industrial engineer. So she took her vacations seriously, spending weeks in Paris and Amsterdam and going on African safaris. Independent and religious, she often traveled alone and kept kosher wherever she happened to be. Seeing America was one of her dreams. She liked the cool weather, the low prices, the cosmopolitan cities. And for a few weeks, she could escape the bombings and shootings at home in Israel. She planned to return again and again. She was on United Airlines Flight 175, which struck the south tower on Sept. 11.

12. Patrick Adams When Patrick Adams would return home from work at Fuji Bank, he would greet not only his family, but the fish in the aquarium at the Adamses' apartment in Flatbush, Brooklyn, said his daughter Balynda Adams. "He would come home and say to them, `How are you doing?' " she said. "He would call them `the boys.' " Mr. Adams, 61, was a security officer in Fuji's offices in 2 World Trade Center, working on the 81st floor. After one of the hijacked airliners struck the building and ignited a raging fire, "he called and said he was trapped in the World Trade Center," Ms. Adams said. "We got it on the answering machine." "He was basically a family man," Ms. Adams said. "He would make sure everything is O.K., everybody is happy." As for his relationship with marine life, it was not limited to the home aquarium. "He liked fishing, and would go to Connecticut to fish," his daughter said.

13. Franco Lalama For Franco Lalama, every season had its tradition, and autumn was the season for making wine. As soon as the leaves started to swirl, Mr. Lalama, 45, and his brother Mario headed to the Italian market to buy crates of fresh grapes. Using an old press that belonged to their father, the brothers proudly followed a family recipe handed down from generation to generation. "Those things were very important to him," said Mr. Lalama's sister Teresa Sweeney, in whose basement the wine press is now lovingly kept. "Frank was a very traditional kind of guy." Born in Italy, Mr. Lalama, of Nutley, N.J., came to New Jersey in 1963, when he was 7. Tradition held that as the oldest boy in an Italian-American family of seven children, Mr. Lalama was responsible for the others. When he became manager of structural integrity for the Port Authority, taking care of the agency's bridges and tunnels came naturally to him. "He was very responsible, maybe too much so," said his wife, Linda. "He put himself last and everyone else first." A co- worker told Mrs. Lalama that on the morning of the attacks, Mr. Lalama cleared everyone out of the engineering office on the 64th floor of 1 World Trade Center. Then he turned back to make sure no one was left behind. "Go ahead," he told the others. "I'll follow."

14. Brendan Lang On Sunday, Nov. 23, Sandy Lang came by her in-laws' home and told her father-in-law, William Lang, that she was going down to Long Beach Island to leave some candles where her husband, Brendan, had proposed to her. "I asked, do you want company, and she said, 'Absolutely,"' Mr. Lang said. So together they drove through a pouring rain. As soon as they got to the beach, the rain stopped. "See, he's speaking to you," Mr. Lang told his daughter-in-law. Brendan Lang, 30, was a project manager for Structure Tone, and was doing work at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. He called his parents to tell them about a plane hitting the first tower, and that he had a "plan." They believe that after calling them he went to help his aunt Rosanne Lang, who worked in the first tower. Neither of them made it out. Brendan and Sandy were married for three years. They had recently purchased a home, next door to Middletown. Brendan was hardworking and ambitious, Sandy Lang said, but family was everything to him. They had just gotten a puppy, a golden retriever they named Tucker.

15. Jeffrey LaTouche For Jeffrey LaTouche life was church, family and work. A banquet captain at Windows on the World for more than 15 years, Mr. LaTouche, 49, happily returned to work when the restaurant reopened after the 1993 bombing. "He loved that job," said his wife, Virginia LaTouche. "The people he worked with were like family to him." A born-again Christian, he had begun to focus increasingly on the church as he became involved at the Pentecostal Winner's Chapel in Queens. A trip to see the evangelist T. D. Jakes last year had left him even more inspired. "That really turned his life around," she said. "He came back with so much energy and zeal to really do something for the Lord." He served as president of the men's fellowship, was on the chapel's building committee and worked with the children's ministry, said Peter Kpapharo, pastor at Winner's Chapel. The chapel is open three days a week, he said, and "almost every time the doors were open he was here.

16. Orasri Liangthanasarn loved flowers, especially sunflowers. "She's very joyful," her sister, Dr. Passara Liangthanasarn, said in a telephone interview from California. "She makes everyone around her happy."On Aug. 1, 2001, Ms. Liangthanasarn started working as an administrative assistant at the Windows on the World restaurant. "It was the first job in her life and she was so happy," her sister said.A recent graduate of New York University's master's program in food and nutrition management, Ms. Liangthanasarn, 26, embraced work with gusto. "She went there early and she went home late," her older sister said.The sisters came to the United States from Thailand in 1998. After a year in central Illinois, they moved to Bayonne, N.J. Ms. Liangthanasarn met with N.Y.U. officials and persuaded them to admit her to the food and nutrition program.In addition to her studies, Ms. Liangthanasarn took care of her older sister as she dealt with the rigors of medical training. She did the cooking and "helped me any way that she could," Dr. Liangthanasarn said, adding, "She always made people around her happy.

17. Darya Lin Darya Lin was not easy to rattle. Growing up in Iran in the early 1980's near a border under heavy bombardment by Iraq, she nevertheless had a "very, very healthy childhood," said her mother, Nahid Mashayekhi Lin. "She never had any fear or any bad memories." So it makes sense to her friends and family that on Sept. 11 Ms. Lin, a 32-year-old senior manager with Keane Consulting Group who was advising clients that day at AON, stayed on the 78th floor to help a pregnant client while others in her group ran downstairs to safety. But Ms. Lin was also aware of her mortality. Over the summer, when she returned a pair of running shoes she had borrowed from her mother, one of them had a note with her name and personal information inside. "She said, `Yeah, mommy, because when people die, the first place they look is in their shoes.' " Ms. Lin, whose father is Burmese, moved with her parents to Ann Arbor, Mich., when she was 11; as an adult she traveled in Europe and the United States, eventually settling in Chicago. She never returned to Iran, but kept up with the language and was considering a return visit with her mother. "She had very good handwriting in Persian and she used to write me in Persian," her mother said. "In her letters, she would thank us for everything we'd done.