Most of the Americans who had a personal memory of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 are now gone.
But the 9/11 attack of 2001 is still vivid to us Americans who lived through it just twenty years ago. It's a good idea to share the memories of those who lived through this one, because a new generation has grown up with no personal recollection of the events.
"Dodie" (a program manager for Air Force intelligence ops) was there on September 11, 2001. Islamic extremists hijacked four commercial airplanes and used them as weapons against American targets. She worked in the Pentagon, the biggest office building in the world, when it was hit.
She would have been in the section destroyed by the explosion and fireball, but her meeting's location had been changed to an office further away. She remembers walking with the evacuees for miles in high heels on the freeway.
Death was instant for most of the 184 killed at this site, and another 160 had serious injuries.
from The Stream
(cont'd tomorrow)
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