Pentagon 9/11 Memorial Tour - 25th Anniversary Livestream with Deirdre

Pentagon 9/11 Memorial Tour - 25th Anniversary Livestream with Deirdre

It's the 25th anniversary of September 11. Where were you on September 11, 2001?

This is an online talk via Zoom.

For those of you in Washington, DC Deirdre will also be hosting in-person tours of the Pentagon Memorial on Sunday, August 30 at 6:00 pm and Tuesday, September 8 at 6:00 pm - details on our Meetup calendar.

YouTube Tour Preview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNGn1sMgfbQ

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The Pentagon 9/11 Memorial, located just southwest of The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, is a permanent outdoor memorial to the 184 people who died as victims in the building and on American Airlines Flight 77 during the September 11, 2001 attacks.

As the website for the memorial states “The Pentagon Memorial is a place of solace and healing and a reminder to future generations to renew their faith in and commitment to the values that citizens of a free world share.”

American Airlines Flight 77 was a scheduled American Airlines domestic transcontinental passenger flight from Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California. The Boeing 757-223 aircraft serving the flight was hijacked by five Saudi men affiliated with al-Qaeda on September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks. They deliberately crashed the plane into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., killing all 64 people on board, including the five hijackers and six crew, as well as 125 people in the building.

Less than 35 minutes into the flight, the hijackers stormed the cockpit and forced the passengers, crew, and pilots to the rear of the aircraft. Hani Hanjour, one of the hijackers who was trained as a pilot, assumed control of the flight. Unknown to the hijackers, passengers aboard made telephone calls to friends and family and relayed information on the hijacking. The hijackers crashed the aircraft into the western side of the Pentagon at 09:37 EDT.

The 184 victims of the attack are memorialized in the Pentagon Memorial adjacent to the crash site. The 1.93-acre park contains a bench for each of the victims, arranged according to their year of birth, ranging from 1930 to 1998.

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Our host will be Deirdre, a member of the non-profit community organization Washington DC History & Culture. Through her professional career Deirdre has obtained and a great deal of knowledge about the events and aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Thank you.

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Your host for this program is Robert Kelleman, the founder/director of the non-profit community organizations Texas History & Culture and Washington, DC History & Culture.

Texas History & Culture A non-profit community organization. Experience the history and culture of Texas - and the world! Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/DallasFortWorthHistoryAndCulture/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TexasHistoryAndCulture/ Eventbrite: https://TexasHistoryAndCulture.eventbrite.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TexasHistoryAndCulture/videos

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We look forward to seeing you - thanks!

Robert Kelleman rkelleman@yahoo.com 202-821-6325 (text only) https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertkelleman/