I remember: I was in a business meeting at Hewlett-Packard in Corvallis, Oregon. Someone came in late and said ‘a plane ran into a building.’ None of us really understood the severity of the situation until after the meeting ended. There was total air silence. Empty sky. A no fly zone. Dead quiet outside. The scenes from NY, DC, the world responses … were being broadcast on our closed circuit television system. They said we could go home, but we all just stayed glued to the screens in silence.