I was getting ready for work and watching the KTLA morning news showing NY. Just as the 1st tower came down I called into the other room for my husband to watch this, was it real or a movie, it was all very surreal and hard to believe.
Then we went to work, school, etc.
The next day at work for me was different. I work in a machine shop that makes parts for aircraft. Everything went into this quite uncomfortable strangeness. One of our employee's wife, was part of the first wave of air strikes, and I remember him saying that in the middle of the night, 5 black suv's arrived at his house and she was gone. Only thing they could talk about by phone was the kids. My boss had to have a clearance badge to go to the companies the shop makes parts for. Stuff like that.