Working about like every other day & happened upon a visibly upset woman from Inside Sales who asked me if I knew what was happening, unusual for her, whe was usually busy noting the faults in the rest of us. - Never allowed radios or TV @ work but Inside Sales was in constant telephone contact w/ the world.
Tried to keep my department working but somebody put a TV in the conference room & people kept circulating thru my department dropping tidbits.
Had a volunteer Fire Chief working for me at the time, asked him to make lists/plans for various contingencies & let the rest of the department mill about, they weren't working anyway.

Had a daughter in Manhattan - was pretty sure she was well away from the danger zone but there way no way to check - land & cell lines were jammed.
Had a daughter-in-law @ the Pentagon - knew damn well she was in the danger zone. Later that day son called & said her department was in CA @ the time of impact. - Fortunate for my yet to be born grandchildren as her office was completely destroyed.

Did not watch any of it on TV - Kept working on plans & assembling materials appropriate for contingencies that seemed plausible @ the time.

I'd just come home from the funeral of the 8 year old daughter of one of my friends who had been killed in a road accident some time just after luch time. I made a coffee when I got in and thought I'd put the TV on to distract myself from the huge emotions I was feeling about it not being right that a little one went so young. The first tower was on TV having been hit earlier and I simply watched in horror as the second tower got hit. I stayed with the TV for the rest of the day watching it all unfold and, like the rest experienced so many emotions - still do whenever I think avbout it. So many lives have been changed from that day - and not only those who were directly affected.

I was living in Florida at the time and that morning I was on my treadmill givin' her hell before I had to go to work. I was watching the local news only to hear of a dog getting hit by lightening, this would be the 2nd or 3rd in just a day or two. Then I hear of a possible plane crash in NYC. I jumped off the treadmill to wake my sleeping (of course), now,ex-husband and tell him "I just heard a third dog was struck and killed by lightening....oh, and a plane hit some building in New York."
Yes, I feel stupid about it now---how trivial. Before that day, I had never even heard of The World Trade Center. I never paid any attention to the sky line or anything really that had to do with the city. This tragic event has changed everyone, I think. It's truley something I'll never forget and I don't want to.

I was two weeks into my A-school training at NAS Meridian Mississippi.
We were in class at the time, alarms all across base started sounding. We thought it was drill. We mustered in formation and the SSgt told us what had happened, marched us to the armory and where we were issued our weapons. When they handed us live rounds it really sank in that they werent joking and this was no drill.