Copyright © 2013 Knight Sac Media. All rights reserved.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=57281Some events become collective anchor points. Those old enough remember exactly where they were, who they were with when they got the news of the Kennedy assassination. The same is true for 9/11. Share you recollections of that day. Where were you? Who were you with? What were you think...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/images/Logo380x132.pnghttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=5728138013210Augustus Gloop<<its a false memory that anyone outside of New York saw the second tower fall that day.>> That isn't how I remember it. I thought we saw both and (my memory is not great) I thought the second building to fall had the tower on it. I don't know .....does anyone remember?http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284103109/14/2012 11:47:48 PMdylan murphyI listened to an interesting TED video today. Scott Fraser: Why eyewitnesses get it wrong. He talks about why an eyewitness is not very reliable most times in crime cases. However early on he talks about the 9-11 event and how its a false memory that anyone outside of New York saw the second tower fall that day. He s...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284102989/14/2012 11:37:03 PMAugustus GloopI watched all the 9/11 stuff a few days back. It's really hard to not feel vengeful anger and it's 11 years later. I think I'll be dead before we'll know the true extent of the devastation that single event had on this country and the globe. There's no way to know now....it's still unfolding. Doing well - how 'bo...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284101509/14/2012 9:44:51 PMCarolynVery close. Her dorm was at 9th and 3rd Ave. A couple of blocks away is Washington Square. A few blocks south is the WTC. Everything below 14th Street was closed for days and NYU was closed. When she and her friends went north, they had to show school ID to return. She had a lot of strange illnesses the rest of the sch...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284089869/14/2012 1:12:18 PMAlan Smitheehttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284089309/14/2012 12:59:03 PMCarolynA friend called to tell me, I switched on the TV, saw it, immediately called my daughter who has just returned to her dorm from a class at NYU. She said, "so that is why all the sirens are going off." Told her not to go near there, to stay away. So, what does she do? Goes down there a little later, steps through a fenc...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284088729/14/2012 12:41:29 PMAlan SmitheeI was scheduled to fly the following day. obviously that trip was cancelled. But I flew a week later. And I can tell you that the mood at the airport was surreal. I showed up early, anticipating long lines at security. But there still weren't too many people willing to fly at that point. Lynne was at a telec...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284088399/14/2012 12:33:17 PMAlan SmitheeSmall matter, but I got smacked on a few positions I was in on 9/11 after the market reopened. How ya doing Gus?http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284088339/14/2012 12:31:29 PMJorj X MckieI remember that VIX discussion. I was home and just waking up when my mother in law called and said "we are under attack! they attacked new york city!". I turned the TV on and watched in stunned silence. I cried when they started reporting jumpers. And it took my breath away when the first tower fell. JXN was tw...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284083839/14/2012 10:52:07 AMAugustus GloopNo reply? I think we talked I recall the day vividly. I remember talking with JorjX & JP days before the attack. The discussion was about the VIX and the reading of a 70+ target when it was sitting on the (I believe) 30's. This was a 2am call that I'll never forget. Days later....the towers came downhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284077109/14/2012 3:05:55 AMManyMoosehttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284013859/12/2012 1:08:25 AMAlan SmitheeI read somewhere about a party that had been flown out into the outback for fishing. The plane did not show up at the appointed time to pick them up and they had no idea why. It was only when airspace was reopened and the plan was able to get them that they found out what had happened.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284004689/11/2012 4:06:56 PMManyMooseI was in Juneau, Alaska getting ready for work. I went to work and we were all sent home shortly afterward. All air travel was shut down, which meant that field crews who were in camps had to stay there. Float planes in the air found an F-16 flying along side. It was eerie. My brother-in-law's father, who survi...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283993989/11/2012 10:28:37 AMAlan SmitheeWith my daughter at home, getting ready for the day. We watched the second hit and I said to her, "this has to be terrorism." We watched the towers fall. Just a week before, my office had moved out of the tallest building in Seattle, which easily could have been a target on the west coast. My wife was in Miami for ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283993179/11/2012 10:02:12 AMStoctrashI was here on SI and on AIM w/ NYC but got no reply. That was a shit day. Never Forget. ps...I finally got to visit the 911 Memorial a few weeks ago.....words can't explain it.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283990789/11/2012 7:27:02 AMTimFhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283561658/23/2012 2:27:52 PMNeeka Here is an amazing story from a flight attendant on Delta Flight 15, written following 9-11: "On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, we were about 5 hours out of Frankfurt, flying over the North Atlantic. All of a sudden the curtains parted and I was told to go to the cockpit, immediately, to see the captain. ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283488038/20/2012 4:09:02 PMManyMooseAlmost all of us are removed by only one or two degrees from somebody who was lost on 9/11. My personal remove is defined by my brother-in-law, whose father worked in the WTC. His father survived the first bombing and subsequently retired, but lost over two dozen colleagues and friends on 9/11. My sister worked...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=276329469/12/2011 8:59:14 PMGary105May G-d bless those who lost their lives on 9/11, the first responders who died then and also years later , those who subsequently died defending our liberty and their families. They will always be in our hearts.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=276297379/11/2011 10:58:00 AMstock leaderAs we approach the 10 years since 9/11 i urge folks to watch the movie "towering inferno" from the 70's .. gives a parallel of what must have been encountered that awful day. God bless the victims,. it never should have happenedhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=275821248/19/2011 11:56:19 PM