I was working at UUNET at the time. I had an office next to the NOC, someone opened the door and said that a plane had just hit one of the WTC towers. I pulled up washingtonpost.com and watched a video of it. I was shocked, then the second one hit, then the pentagon and the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania. I knew the world was going to change.
Looking back, and remembering how I felt. I don't feel much safer now. But I know we took the fight to them, and we don't have random business people getting killed for the advancement of terrorism. I just wish there was a person that would be willing to talk, rather than take up arms against us. I love this country and what we stand for.