I had just got back from the casino a couple hours prior, was up a few hundred dollars, and was just flipping through the TV about to go to sleep when one of the news stations was reporting that one of the World Trade Center buildings was on fire with unconfirmed reports that a plane had crashed into it. I watched the second plane hit the other building live. Shit was so fucking surreal. I didn't sleep at all that night and went to work the next day and I think even thousands of miles away everyone was just in a state of shock. Really weird day.
It was a dark bloodthirsty time. Bush has a bad rap but pretty much everyone wanted to go to war. Everything calmed down by the time we went into iraq and there was stronger opposition but it was still the minority opinion