Pentagon 9/11 (10th Anniversary Edition) (Paperback) includes a foreword by Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and provides the most comprehensive account available of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and aftermath, including unprecedented details on the impact on the Pentagon building and personnel and the scope of the rescue, recovery, and care-giving effort.These excellent publications tell the stories of the heroes from that day: Many of these stories of heroism, missed opportunities, and resulting actions have been painstakingly and faithfully chronicled by a wide array of Federal agencies, ensuring the sacrifices and lessons are not forgotten.īoth in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, DC, we saw how first responders and medical personnel rushed to save lives. We have since heard stirring stories of heroes and sacrifice, and learned many grim lessons that are still affecting both policy and people today. So, too, I cried with a group of strangers as we stood on the ferry platform and watched in horror as the first tower fall, saw the dust cloud rise and felt the earth-and the world-tremble.Īmerica and Americans have changed since that day… twelve years ago today. I was right across from the Twin Towers twelve years ago today, getting ready to board a ferry for my daily commute from New Jersey across the Hudson River into Manhattan, when I saw the second plane hit the World Trade Center right across from me.

Created by David McKenzie with the Government Printing Office for the U.S. Image: September 11 Decade of Remembrance logo with World Trade Center Twin Towers surrounded by a figure representing the Pentagon.

For our generation, it was September 11, 2001. Kennedy or Martin Luther King was assassinated and you will hear a stirring personal story. Ask any American who was alive in the 60’s where he or she was when John F. There are certain moments and events that are etched in our national consciousness.

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