What We Saw the Day Time Stood Still

Much of this week will be spent on reflection -- what things were like before Sept. 11, and where we are now. The events of that day are one story: lived, remembered and retold by millions of people. In keeping with that theme, I asked employees of TheStreet.com to submit first-person accounts of what they experienced that day, and its effects on them since.

Their instructions were simple, but their contributions were anything but. In presenting this story, we interspersed our voices to construct a narrative collage of that day.

We work on Wall Street, two blocks from where the Twin Towers stood, and were eyewitnesses to the event. Part of our job as journalists is to chronicle history. ...