For 9/11, I was called by my then DP after I had got back to my desk after lunch to say one had crashed into the tower. He then phoned back shortly after I'd told the others in the office and said that another one had hit. We didn't have universal internet access at the company (an old fashioned Insurance Loss Adjuster), which was why I have unintentionally ended up becoming part of several people's recollections of the day.
I preferred taking the 1.30 to 2.30 lunch spot as it meant I could do a Yoga class at the gym opposite the office, but I'd been put on the 12.30 to cover for somebody else, so couldn't go. And because the Office Manager had taken the later lunch as well, it was relaxed enough that we were chatting, rather than heads down and working. If I had to put a 'time' to it, I'd say it was about ten to two he called the first time and about ten past that he called again.
The evening stuff, I don't remember that much, as I had a toddler and an infant to pick up and look after. I was more affected by the quiet when walking through the busiest part of town to catch my bus to the childminder and, in the following days, just how blue and cloudless the sky was - and the way everybody in that area around the station stopped and looked up on the day that the first jet flew over again.
I don't think there are any false memories there on my part?