Joel Orosz writes:
Vol 4, No 38, September 16, 2001, "September 11"
A poignant reminder that The E-Sylum sometimes covers news that transcends the purely numismatic.
A firsthand account of Tuesday's tragic events was posted
to the internet (and copied to the Colonial Coins mailing
list) as the day unfolded by E-Sylum subscriber Eric Cheung.
Some excerpts:
"I haven't yet gone off to Stanford yet but I will be doing just
that in a week and a half. I live down around City Hall in
Manhattan and it's a pretty commercial area; at this time in the
morning there's normally quite some commotion down here
particularly since everyone is trying to get to work.
I just heard a rumble that was about twenty seconds long. ...
A couple minutes later, my mom came into my room and
told me a plane just crashed into the World Trade Center.
In utter disbelief, I kicked out of my bedsheets and looked
out the window and saw lots of people running around in the
streets heading up Broadway away from the explosion. I
also checked out the living room and saw CNN extensively
covering this disaster.
About eight or ten minutes later, ... I heard a huge explosion
as the legs of my bed and the floor of my 9th floor apartment
shook.
The first world trade center collapsed down to the bottom...
I walked not ten feet from my neighbor's apartment when I
heard an even louder rumble. My neighbors summoned me
to return to the apartment, and in the last second as I dashed
to the window, I saw the final section of World Trade Center
2 tumble straight down into the ground. My neighbors and
mother were hysterical. Moments later the debris and ash of
the aftermath rose into the blazingly sunny sky.
I returned to my apartment about 10:28, the hallways in my
building filling with smoke. I continued down the hallway
where there are windows every ten feet or so, four or five in
all down about a hundred feet corridor. There was white dust
atop every roof I could see, and it looked like a snowstorm
had just hit us, or radioactive waste from a nuclear explosion
had just rained down upon us. After a while, the two look
the same, and are both frightening and frustrating in equal
magnitude."
Subsequent issues held a number of articles discussing the impact of the event on numismatics and numismatics.
-Editor
To read the complete original E-Sylum article, see:
SEPTEMBER 11
(coinbooks.org/esylum_v04n38a02.html)
To read one of the following week's summaries of events, see:
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 AND ITS AFTERMATH
(coinbooks.org/esylum_v04n39a05.html)
Wayne Homren, Editor
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