I was in Wichita, working on one of the (then new) Air Force One 747s. I was working ~16 hrs/day so in the morning I simply got up, showered, and headed to hotel to the facility without checking the news or papers. First thing I noted while driving was that - overnight - the price of gas had gone from $.99 to $1.29 a gallon
. It didn't take long to find out what had happened once I arrived at the Boeing facility.
That trip is not a pleasant memory - after finishing up on AF1 I'd headed to Minnesota for a family reunion - my dad died suddenly and unexpectedly during the reunion - but at least I had a few days with him before he passed.
I had a Kuwaiti national as a roommate when I was an undergrad (~1976) - apparently his family was fairly high up in the Kuwait government. I never heard from him again after the invasion - never found out what happened to him.