Alfred Arberg, Boat Captain, Statue of Liberty National Monument
"We were heading back into Manhattan, I got about three-quarters of the way in when the second tower collapsed... The smoke was rolling... rolling right down Manhattan through the streets... And I said, I can't drop anybody off in Manhattan with the smoke. They'd be right in the middle of it and who knows what would have happened to them. I had to turn around and just get them out of there."

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Gene Kuziw, Interpreter/EMS, Statue of Liberty National Monument
"I looked over to the right and I saw across towards Governors' Island just saw this plane coming in very low. And I just focused the camera on it. Just before impact I got [a] picture….And at that point one of my colleagues screamed out that we're being attacked and it was pretty unbelievable….[W]e saw a big ball of fire and the plane was just absorbed into the building….But then a couple of seconds later you just heard this tremendous explosion and we just stood there in disbelief for a few minutes."

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Alfred Farrugio, Horticulturist, Ellis Island National Monument
"and this I'll never forget, the feeling of that plane coming over us and just being so low, so fast and making so much noise and flying towards the second tower. But … my mind would not believe that it was going to go hit the tower. And even as it approached that tower, I didn't believe that it was going to go into the tower, hit it. … But even when it went into the tower - and it just went in like cutting through water."

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Jerry Zanjac, Maintenance (Woodcrafter) Statue of Liberty National Monument
"So we see this thing screaming on a bank flying right over our heads, right over the canopy. Close enough where you feel like you can touch it, you know. I saw the under-bottom of it and all and it's just streaking very quickly."

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