It was so quiet that day. No planes, nobody outside. Like the nation took a collective time to mourn.
I was working the front desk at a college library and my Mom called and asked if I had heard about first plane, I hadn’t but had seen it but had seen a blurb on a news feed on the internet of the computer I was using at the desk.
I went to my office which had a tv and turned on to watch the second plane hit and then the towers fall. All the students were in the library working without any clue for the most part. I finally stepped out and announced that the twin towers had been hit and collapsed and the number of dead was probably in the thousands and that the Pentagon had also been hit by high jacked airliners and that we were now at war. Lots of stunned faces and some gasps, students started exiting the library and went to the student activity area to watch on a big tv.
That evening parents, brother and even family friends showed up at my house and we ate pizza. I had Directv and at that time news feeds from New York local stations.