Digital Learning Experience Archives

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum offers a collection of first-person accounts of the attacks and their aftermath as a part of the annual Anniversary Digital Learning Experience, formally known as Anniversary in the Schools. Individual stories are categorized by speaker type and video type below. Each video includes discussion questions to use while viewing.

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  • Patrick McGee Sr. (Audio Description)

    NYPD officer assigned to Emergency Service Squad 1, who was off duty but raced to help on 9/11, ultimately rescuing trapped PAPD officer Will Jimeno and Sargent John McLoughlin.

    • Type: Audio Description
  • Elizabeth Cascio (ASL)

    EMT with the FDNY who responded both to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and to 9/11.  

    • Type: ASL
  • Patrick McGee Jr.

    New PAPD officer Pat McGee wears Shield Number 1117, the same one now-retired Officer Will Jimeno wore on 9/11 when Pat's father, Paddy, responded to Ground Zero and ultimately rescued him from the rubble. 

    • Type: Captioned
  • Rick Thornton (Audio Description)

    NY Waterway Captain who participated in the largest waterborne evacuation in American history on 9/11.

    • Type: Audio Description