Photo caption: At the Pentagon Memorial, a K-9 officer pauses as he looks toward the U.S. flag as it is draped on the side of the Pentagon where the building was attacked on September 11 in 2001, on the 14th anniversary of the attack, Sept. 11, 2015, outside Washington.
PENTAGON — Sixteen years ago, the building housing the U.S. Department of Defense came under attack. American Airlines Flight 77 was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon, killing all 59 passengers on board the plane and 125 people working in the building.
Today, the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial stands next to where the plane entered the building, honoring those lost on a day that forever changed America.
Jamie McIntyre, The Washington Examiner’s senior defense writer, was inside the Pentagon working as a correspondent for CNN at the time of the attacks. Speaking with VOA at the memorial, he called it “sacred ground.”
“I stood here on September 11,” McIntyre said, “and to someone who lived through it, it’s kind of a defining moment in your life.”
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