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Thank you.  Funnily enough, I am not really new around here, although I do not post much.  I have been regularly visiting this board for about 15 years (started back in the CFN days).  I read it almost every college football weekend and at least weekly in the offseason.  I just rarely post anything.

Welcome to the board and thanx for your service

20 years ago today?

I was in my office early, and I did have the TV on.

I saw video of the first plane to hit, and I was thinking that is some bad navigational practice. Then, #2 hit and I immediately thought that we are under attack.

Chilling to think about.

I was home getting ready for work. We had CNN on, but back then I generally did not turn the television on while getting ready for work. I suspect we heard about it on the radio and flipped on the TV. 
I thought the first hit was from a small plane, but when I saw the next hit, I immediately knew Osama bin Laden was behind it. He was not well-known to the public before 9/11/2001, but I had read about him, and had seen some coverage about him on 60-minutes, which was enough for me to know he was capable of planning this, and had a terrorist training camp in a remote part of Afghanistan.

I remember having discussions afterward in my government class about the decisions to go to war.  I did not enlist, but I did commission in 2007 before medical school and have been on active duty for the past 10 years in the Navy.  I am sitting deployed on a warship right now following the Iowa-ISU game on gametracker.  Armed Forces Network decided they would rather televise Georgia-UAB.  I just finished writing an email to my preschooler about how the events of the day have still been impacting my life in ways that I did not expect, as recently as the past several weeks.

my daughters were 4 and 7 at the time, I remember knowing it would change the world going forward and how different my daughter's world would be from my growing up.

I was at home on leave and was sleeping in. I was out late the night before doing what sailors do. My brother came over to my in-laws house and woke me up saying "we're going to war". We turned on the TV to see the second plane hit. At that point I knew that my brother was right and I started to try and contact my ship. It took me two days to finally get ahold of someone.