I was working for the FAA then. We had a new guy ask where he could get a cup of coffee so I took him up to the cafeteria and saw breaking news of fire in tower one. Shortly a plane hit the second tower. Talk about a memorable first day at work.
An Air Traffic controller walked by talking to himself in disbelief saying “How could he not see the tower with 15 mile clear visibility?”
Things were real crazy for weeks.
I was an air traffic controller for 20 years myself, but at the time, I was in a California prison. An inmate came out of his cell, and told me that an aircraft had struck the first tower. I thought maybe it was a light, general aviation aircraft. A short time later, the same inmate told me another aircraft had hit the other tower. Right away, I said, no accident. Time for war.