On the morning of September 11, 2001, Michael Nestor, Liz Thompson, and Richard Tierney were eating breakfast at Windows on the World, the restaurant at the top of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Together, they rode in the last elevator down in the moments before American Airlines Flight 11 struck the building at 8:46 that morning. Everyone at the restaurant at the time of impact, approximately 170 men and women, perished.

Producers: Karen Callahan and Dave Isay / Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts. Photograph by Dan Heller.

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		Doris Eng's memorial page on CNN.com
		Jan Maciejewski's memorial page on Remebering September 11, 2001
		Sound of the WTC elevator, courtesy of the September 11 Digital Archive (1:03 min, MP3 file)

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