On September 11, 2001, Loni and Russ Efron were living across the street from the World Trade Center. They both experienced the towers being hit, falling, and escaping their building. Even though they spent their entire day together, their experiences were so different.

In today’s episode we feature new music for The Ripple, composed by Timothy Cleary.

You can see more of Timothy’s work on his website: https://www.timothyclearymusic.com/

Todd MacIntire was a young man working in New York on September 11th, 2001. As he walked across town to the West Side Highway he looked south, where he saw burning holes in the World Trade Center. He knew it would not be a normal day. This is Todd’s story.

The morning of September 11, 2001, Allison Silver Adams went out for a jog in her neighborhood. She lived in New York City, one block south of World Trade Two. She and her husband had just flown in from vacation the evening of September 10th. Within minutes of Allison returning from her run that morning, the first plane hit the World Trade Center.

Allison had no idea what September 11th had in store for her as she left her home. She couldn’t have known she would never live there again, or know the things she would see and experience in the next 48 hours. But she survived. This episode delves deeper into Allison’s September 11th, post attack and September 12th and the actions Allison and her husband took after watching their world change in an instant.

The morning of September 11, 2001, Allison Silver Adams went out for a jog in her neighborhood. She lived in New York City, one block south of World Trade Two. She and her husband had just returned home the night before from vacation and the 11th was their first day back. Within minutes of Allison returning from her run, the first plane hit the World Trade Center.

Allison had no idea what September 11th had in store for her as she left her home. She couldn’t have known she would never live there again, or know the things she would see and experience in the next 48 hours, but she survived. This is her story.

In this episode, we will meet students from Western Massachusetts. These students where not yet born when 9/11 occurred. We take a trip to the 9/11 Museum in New York City and talk to them as they experience the exhibits for the first time.

In 2001, Ann Brickley was 25 years old and living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She had been working as an attorney for the US Department of Customs out of 6 World Trade Center in Manhattan for just under a year. On the morning of 9/11, Ann was researching in the interior library of 6 WTC. Although in a windowless room, she heard the first plane hitting the WTC but did not know what the noise was from. As she left the library, she heard people talking about a plane hitting the World Trade Center. Soon after, the entire building was told to evacuate. After slight panic and rushing, Ann safely made it to the West Side Highway only to witness the second plane fly right over her head. This is Ann’s story.

Do you remember your first day of college?

Jake Alexander moved to New York City in the late summer of 2001 by way of Cambridge, Massachusetts. A young man, attending NYU’s Tisch school for acting, he found himself starting classes on September 11th, 2001. New city, new friends, new life. How would you react? What would you do?

On September 11th, 2001, Bert Spangemacher was a young photography assistant living on Orchard Street in New York City. On the morning Of September 11th, he heard commotion outside his apartment, mostly police and firetrucks, city noise he thought. When he turned on his computer and saw that a plane had hit the World Trade Center he grabbed a few cameras and some film and headed downtown. Leaving his apartment that day, Bert could not have predicted that he would be so close to the largest terrorist attack on US soil. This is a day he would never forget, no matter how hard he tried.

This is part two of Bert’s story. In this episode, Bert will speak in depth about his life post 9/11 and how his health has been affected.

On September 11th, 2001, Bert Spangemacher was a young photography assistant living on Orchard Street in New York City. On the morning Of September 11th, he heard commotion outside his apartment, mostly police and firetrucks, city noise he thought. When he turned on his computer and saw that a plane had hit the World Trade Center he grabbed a few cameras and some film and headed downtown. Leaving his apartment that day, Bert could not have predicted that he would be so close to the largest terrorist attack on US soil. This is a day he would never forget, no matter how hard he tried.

On September 10th, 2001 Colleen Piccone was scheduled to fly out of New York but opted to stay in New York and fly out the following day, September 11th so she could celebrate her 36th birthday alongside her children. That small decision would change many aspects of her life in the coming years.

At the time of September 11th, Colleen was a mother to two small children, and living in Staten Island. She had been working in Six World Trade Center for 11 years and was the Deputy Associate Chief Counsel for the US Customs Service. In the early morning of September 11th she was scheduled to fly out of Newark International Airport heading to San Diego, California. That flight would take off on time, but would eventually be grounded by all that was transpiring on the East Coast. In the days that followed, Colleen would drive thousands of miles across the country only to return to a city that was in crisis. This is Colleen’s story.