The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 impacted everyone everywhere in ways large and small. No one alive that day will forget where they were and everything that happened. Here in The E-Sylum we had some first-person accounts from readers over the years. On this anniversary day, we're republishing some of these here. ANA's Outstanding Young Numismatist of the Year Eric Cheung was living near City Hall in Manhattan before heading off to Stanford. -Editor

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."

Other reports came from the American Numismatic Society, then located far uptown at Broadway and 125th. -Editor

The ANS is closed now, but with several others I'm stuck here because there's no way to get home. The chaos downtown has not had much effect this far north. Before noon, I walked 20 blocks north to the bus station for New Jersey commuters, only to find both the bus station and the George Washington Bridge closed, so I walked back.

Many of you will be curious about the state of the new ANS building, which is within a few blocks of Ground Zero. Right now, we have not been able to get to William Street. Just before the attack on downtown Manhattan, subcontractors were working on the final stages of demolition on all floors in the new building. At this point we are uncertain when this work can resume.

We are also waiting to hear whether the exhibition "Drachms, Doubloons and Dollars. A History of Money" will open on October 17th as planned. Designers, mountmakers, printers, and ANS staff are on schedule, but the final decision will be taken jointly with the Federal Reserve Bank.

For numismatic bibliophiles, the opening of the long-awaited "Numismatics in the Age of Grolier" exhibit at the Grolier Club headquarters in midtown Manhattan, scheduled for September 12th, was postponed, as were Stacks and Bowers and Merena Galleries auctions scheduled for September 12-15. The New York Numismatic Club cancelled its September 14 meeting. -Editor

Other articles through the years discussed various numismatic commemoratives of the event, such as a gold Krugerrand marketed as being made from gold recovered from vaults at the World Trade Center. Today's article gives us a chance to publish an image of the piece, originally pictured in a Wall Street Journal article. The E-Sylum was a text-only publication until 2008 (can you imagine!) -Editor

Most recently, we published a remembrance from the late Harvey Stack. -Editor

The reports were horrifying. And the Stack family was still crossing the bridge to Manhattan and the westside drive, people were running out into the streets, not even knowing where they were going. All were bewildered and kept looking up to see if more aircraft might be coming their way. Once on 155th street we passed the courtyard where the American Numismatic Society had its museum and library for many decades. We then turned south on Broadway for some blocks.

We were able to turn east on 86th street and then when we reached Broadway we were directed south again as the full length of Central Park would block us from proceeding east. We continued down Broadway, past Lincoln Center in the 60's and on to Broadway again and found ourselves within a few blocks of 56th street where we had a reserved place for our car in a garage located between 7th avenue and the Avenue of the Americas (the old 6th Avenue) and pulled into our garage. Taking our bags with us, we went next door to the Parker Meridian Hotel which had entrances on both 56th street and 57th street, directly across the street from our offices at 123 West 57th street. It was a joy to see, the window gates were still down, no signs of vandalism, our armed guard standing before the entrance. We at least made it to our "home away from home !!!