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The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, caused profound shock, horror, fear, anger and sorrow for Americans — and for some, lasting change. Six Puget Sound-area residents tell us how the events of that day played out in their lives.

In the days after she stood on a debris-strewn street in Lower Manhattan and watched a plane fly into the World Trade Center where she worked, Dana Macario began to think of home.

The Burien native had graduated from Western Washington University in 2000 and, "looking for a post-college adventure," followed her boyfriend to New York.

She'd landed a job with a law firm that occupied floors 37-40 of the South Tower.