I was at work, taking news reports from journalists on the scene and transferring it to TV and newspaper desks as fast as we could.  We had a big screen on the wall with live coverage all day, and saw each tower as it fell.  Reporters were ringing us from all over the world, I spent an hour talking with Robert Fisk of The Independent while he was in mid-Atlantic, using the on-board phone, as their flight had been turned back because the whole US airspace was closed.  Nobody really knew what was happening and everyone was scrambling to be the first with any new information.  I barely had time to send one-line emails to my wife to let her know what was happening, typically: "Second tower just fell, estimated death toll 10,000".  (In fact the reported death toll fell over time, finally settling on 2,752)

Around 6pm I took a break and went to the pub around the corner for a meal, and the same footage was being shown on the pub TV (and pretty much every TV in the country).  I worked till midnight that night, it was a very long shift.

Many myths, and quite a few lies, are still told about the events of that day.

I was in school. We didnt know it had happened for a while and then when we did it was the big thing on TV. Someone had accedently hit the WTC with a plane. It was on and off for a while, other news was seemingly more important. And then back to the buning tower, then some other news.

And then I was sitting in science class and they cut back to the tower for a minute and I saw this dot come around the back of everything. I remember thinking "Thats an odd place for a plane to be." And then the second impact hit. In the span of about ten seconds a wave of understanding washed over me, then the class, then the news media. "Oh my, we are under attack." There was a lot of not knowing what exactly to do. Atlanta is a big city but it's not world famous for much so we werent terribly worried here but otherwise we were all confused. Then the pentagon was hit, and then the other went down.

I was just sort of numb all day, and I remember predicting Afganastan having something to do with it because they were the first on TV saying "We didnt do it." Otherwise I just really was numb. Flaming doom had befallen lots of people in my country, I guess I just dont know how to properly react to that.

I was in bed sleeping when the attack first began.  A few minutes after it hit, my father came in the room and told me that a plane had just hit the World Trade Center.  I turned on CNN to see what was going on (I figured it had been some kind of terrible accident).  I turned the TV on just in time to see the second plane hit.  I asked my father what had just happened and he said "a war has started."

I got up out of bed and got into the shower, by the time I got out one of the towers had fallen.  I got dressed, tied my tie, and went to school.  When I got there, one of my friends told me that both towers had apparently collapsed. 

Being in high school, they tried to keep the day as normal as possible without telling us much.  Although, I was in a US History class at the time and in that class our teacher allowed us to watch the news because it was history.

Whether you believe it's the start of WWIII or not, is simply a matter of scope.  But anyway, 9/11 was a wake-up call.  The terrorists had been busy for quite a few years before 9/11.  They were never confused about the fact that they were at war.  After 9/11, the war had been joined, that's the milestone that that significant date signifies.

But anyway, I was at work, reading internet news.  At first, people were reporting that a light aircraft hit the WTC, then reports of a 737 hit the WTC.  People couldn't get their minds around a terrorist hijacking intentionally crashing into the towers.

I think 9/11 being called the beginning of WWIII is a fair statement.  It's also a fair comparison to Pearl Harbor. A war was(is) going on and that event thrust us deeply into it.

I was at my brother's home..   His daughter was born that day. His wife was in such shock.. she thought it was a hoax.. A modern, "War of the Worlds"..

Good point..

But it's tough to declare war against a nationless, radical religious movement. Terrorists don't have a country to declare war against.