Initially I felt nothing either. In part that's because we may all have gotten thoroughly desensitised to death and destruction by the huge volume of it poured out on us all day from TV, radio, newspapers and other media. In part it may be because I'm in a different country, on a different continent, and it didn't affect me or my friends and family directly. In part also it's because the magnitude of it all was too big to immediately grasp. I still feel little for those that lost their lifes. It is sad they're gone but such is war that non-combattants are hurt (and often hurt more than the troops on the field of battle who have protection and training which the civilians do not). The loss of life was large but no larger than the loss of life during other major conflicts, and I do see 11 Sept. 2001 as the start of the next phase of a world war between civilisation and terrorism. I DO feel for the families and loved ones of those that died that day, but there's no sense is lingering on those feelings so I don't. Luckily my country has been largely spared terrorism (one hijacking and some shooting incidents in 30 years is a good record), but sadly that's mainly because terrorists leave us alone because they have a safe haven here (PLO, IRA, PKK, all have offices here or used to, and currently Al Qaeda recruiters have been more or less given the green light when courts several times released them from arrest for lack of any law to sentence them under).