9/11, Ten Years Later: Stories From Home and Abroad

On Thursday, Whitefish Bay Patch brought you the story of who watched the events of 9/11 unfold with grim understanding.

When they heard the high-pitched whine of dozens of Personal Alert Safety System devices in the background of news reports, it hit home in a way that Lt. Pete Busalacchi said civilians didn't understand.

"When you heard that on TV, the normal citizen probably had no idea what that meant unless the reporter told them. But we pick up on it — it's kind of a universal sound,” Busalacchi said. “You knew firefighters were gone, but when you hear the PASS devices, it just represents that death and that's hard."

Their story and so many others reveal how the events of 9/11 have affected people across the United States and the world.

At the 10th anniversary, Patch journalists throughout Milwaukee and the entire country are telling those stories. A dazzling photo gallery collecting 911 anecdotes resides on Huffington Post, and a Patch in Western Pennsylvania that are memorialized around the nation. We also invite you to read these in-depth articles from the southeast Wisconsin Patch communities:

Brookfield:

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Fox Point:

Greenfield:  

Menomonee Falls:

Muskego:

Muskego:

Muskego:

Muskego:

Oak Creek:

Port Washington:

Shorewood:

Sussex:

Whitefish Bay:

Waukesha:

Wauwatosa: