Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: testimoni 9/11

ho trovato queste in rete, probabilmente tutta gente istruita a dovere dalla
CIA.....la lista dei cospiratori si allarga......
http://perso.club-internet.fr/mouv4x8/11Sept01/A0054_2_A_list_of_witness_at_or_near_Pentagon.pdf
• Anon, from the Navy Annex.
As I stood there, I instinctively ducked at the extremely loud roar
and whine of a jet engine
spooling up. Immediately, the large silver cylinder of an aircraft
appeared in my window, coming
over my right shoulder as I faced the Westside of the Pentagon
directly towards the heliport. The
aircraft, looking to be either a 757 or Airbus, seemed to come
directly over the annex, as if it had
been following Columbia Pike - an Arlington road leading to Pentagon.
The aircraft was moving
fast, at what I could only be estimate as between 250 to 300 knots.
All in all, I probably only had
the aircraft in my field of view for approximately 3 seconds.
The aircraft was at a sharp downward angle of attack, on a direct
course for the Pentagon. It
was "clean", in as much as, there were no flaps applied and no
apparent landing gear
deployed. He was slightly left wing down as he appeared in my line of
sight, as if he'd just
"jinked" to avoid something. As he crossed Route 110 he appeared to
level his wings, making
a slight right wing slow adjustment as he impacted low on the Westside
of the building to the
right of the helo, tower and fire vehicle around corridor 5.
http://www.ournetfamily.com/WarOnTerror/emails/pentagonwitness.html
• Donald "Tim" Timmerman, a 36 year old resident of Eppington Drive,
to the south of the
Pentagon across Interstate 395, is a navy pilot and a photographer.
"I was looking out the window; I live on the 16th floor, overlooking
the Pentagon, in a corner
apartment, so I have quite a panorama. And being next to National
Airport, I hear jets all the
time, but this jet engine was way too loud. I looked out to the
southwest, and it came right down
395, right over Colombia Pike, and as it went by the Sheraton Hotel,
the pilot added power to the
engines. I heard it pull up a little bit more, and then I lost it
behind a building. And then it
came out, and I saw it hit right in front of -- it didn't appear to
crash into the building; most of the
energy was dissipated in hitting the ground, but I saw the nose break
up, I saw the wings fly
forward, and then the conflagration engulfed everything in flames. It
was horrible.
What can you tell us about the plane itself?
It was a Boeing 757, American Airlines, no question.
You say that it was a Boeing, and you say it was a 757 or 767?
7-5-7.
757, which, of course..
American Airlines.
American Airlines, one of the new generation of jets.
Right. It was so close to me it was like looking out my window and
looking at a helicopter. It
was just right there. . .
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/11/bn.32.html
 . .
A CNN on-the-sight reporter was interviewed by a fellow fromCNN :
You got a close-up look at the damage, didn't you?
Yes, I was right next to the building.
And what did you see?
I saw a big, gaping hole and I could see pieces of the plane inside.
Earlier, an eye-witness told us the plane didn't crash into the
building.
Well, I don't know what it looked like from where he was, but I looked
right inside the hole
and I know it crashed into the building.
http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/war/spin.htm
• Christopher Munsey, Navy Times reporter , was en route to work.
". . I couldn’t believe what I was now seeing to my right: A silver,
twin-engine American
Airlines jetliner gliding almost noiselessly over the Navy Annex,
fast, low and straight
toward the Pentagon, just hundreds of yards away.
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The plane, with red and blue markings, hurtled by and within moments
exploded in a ground-shaking “whoomp,”
http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-467181.php
• John O’Keefe, 25-year-old Northern Virginia commuter, managing
editor of Influence, an
American Lawyer Media publication about lobbying was "not much more
than a football field
away" on
“. saw or heard it first -- this silver plane; I immediately
recognized it as an American
Airlines jet,”
“It came swooping in over the highway, over my left shoulder, straight
across where my car
was heading.
http://www.nylawyer.com/news/01/09/091201l.html
• Joel Sucherman, USAToday.com Multimedia Editor, saw it all: an
American Airlines jetliner fly left to right across his field of
vision as he
commuted to work Tuesday morning.
It was highly unusual. The large plane was 20 feet off the ground and
a
mere 50 to 75 yards from his windshield. Two seconds later and before
he
could see if the landing gear was down or any of the horror- struck
faces
inside, the plane slammed into the west wall of the Pentagon 100 yards
away.
"My first thought was he's not going to make it across the river to
National Airport. But
whoever was flying the plane made no attempt to change direction. It
was coming in at a high
rate of speed, but not at a steep angle--almost like a heat-seeking
missile was locked onto its
target and staying dead on course."
http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D704%2526a%253D15161,00.asp
"it came screaming across the highway, route 110"
Was it a commercial jet? Do you know how many engines?
"I did not see the engines, I saw the body and the tail; it was a
silver jet with the markings
along the windows that spoke to me as an American Airlines jet, it was
not a commercial, excuse
me, a business jet, it was not a lear jet, it was a bigger plane than
that.".
• Omar Campo, a Salvadorean, was cutting the grass on the other side
of the road when the
plane flew over his head.
"It was a passenger plane. I think an American Airways plane," Mr
Campo said. "I was cutting
the grass and it came in screaming over my head.
A woman driver wanting to exit from Interstate 395 saw
"a commercial plane that came in and was coming too fast and too low
amnd the next thing we
saw was it go down below the side of the road and we just saw the
fire.."
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/day.video.09.html
Brig. Gen. Clyde A. Vaughn, deputy director of military support to
civil
authorities.
was returning to the Pentagon Sept. 11
returned urgently from a meeting, north along Interstate 395 . While
exiting the
ramp to the Pentagon he
"was scanning the air. There wasn't anything in the air, except for
one airplane,
and it looked like it was loitering over Georgetown, in a high,
left-hand bank,"
he said. "That may have been the plane. I have never seen one on that
(flight) pattern."
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/13/pentagon.terrorism
He pulled his car over and sprinted toward the gaping, flaming hole
“It took me four to five minutes to get there,”
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0901/091401kp1.htm
http://www.dtic.mil/armylink/news/Sep2001/a20010919fireheroes.html
Mark Bright, was the first security officer to arrive at the scene,
having actually seen the
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plane hit the building while manning the guard booth at the Mall
Entrance.
"I saw the plane at the Navy Annex area,"
"I knew it was going to strike the building because it was very, very
low -- at the height of the
street lights. It knocked a couple down ."
He said he heard the plane "power-up" just before it struck the
Pentagon.
http://www.dcmilitary.com/marines/hendersonhall/6_39/local_news/10797-1.html
Alan Wallace, a 55 year old Fort Myer firefighter was standing with
fellow firefighter Mark
Skipper, about 200 feet away from the catastrophe, standing outside
their fire station. They bith
suffered first and second degree burns.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/635293.asp
Wallace described a white airplane with orange and blue trim, heading
almost straight at
them. "When I felt the fire, I hit the ground,"
http://detnews.com/2001/nation/0109/11/nation-291261.htm
"I just happened to look up and see the plane. It was about 200 yards
away, and was coming in
low and fast. I told Mark that we needed to get the hell out of
there."
Dennis Young, a third fireman at the scene, but inside the fire house,
had been one of the first
to respond when a Canadian C-130 crashed near Fairbanks, Alaska in
1989.
"I knew from past experience that it was a plane crash."
www.iaff.org/across/news/archives/102401local.html
At a media briefing, Pentagon spokeswoman Torie Clark told the story
of Capt. Lincoln
Liebner, who was outside the Pentagon when the blast took place. He
rushed into the building to
help. His hands were burned, and after he was taken away to a hospital
for treatment, he returned
later in the day to do more.
• Captain Lincoln Liebner, was parking his car at the moment of
attack:
'I saw this large American Airlines passenger jet coming in fast and
low,' said Army Captain
Lincoln Liebner.
'We got one guy out of the fire truck cab,' he said, adding he could
hear people crying inside
the wreckage.
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/mnt/html/webspecial/WTC/wtcnews15.html
"I saw this large American Airlines passenger jet coming in fast and
low,"
"My first thought was I've never seen one that high. Before it hit I
realised what was
happening,
Captain Liebner says the aircraft struck a helicopter on the helipad,
setting fire to a fire
truck.
We got one guy out of the cab," he said, adding he could hear people
crying inside the
wreckage.
Captain Liebner, who had cuts on his hands from the debris, says he
has been parking his car
in the car park when the crash occurred.""
http://abc.net.au/news/2001/09/item20010911230953_1.htm
French version:
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/reseau/monde/0109/mon_101090013337.html
• Alfred S. Regnery, president and publisher of Regnery Publishing,
Inc., a sister
company of Human Events saw
". . a jetliner, apparently at full throttle and not more than a
couple
of hundred yards above the ground, screamed overhead."
http://www.humanevents.org/articles/09-17
 -01/regnery.html
• Mike Walter, 46, USA Today reporter, said
"I was sitting in the northbound on 27 and the traffic was, you know,
typical rushhour
-- it had ground to a standstill. I looked out my window and I saw
this plane, this
jet, an American Airlines jet, coming. And I thought, 'This doesn't
add up, it's really low.'
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And I saw it. I mean it was like a cruise missile with wings. It went
right there and slammed
right into the Pentagon."
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/attack.in.their.words
Sergeant Maurice L. Bease had worked around Marine aviation long
enough to know what a
fly-by was, and it sounded like one as he stood outside his office
near the Pentagon on Sept. 11.
Turning around expecting to see a fighter jet fly over, he saw only a
split-second glimpse of a
white commercial airliner streaking low toward the building, and him!
He did not even have
time to duck before it plowed into the side of the Pentagon around the
corner and about 200 yards
from where he stood.
Report by Maj Fred H. Allison, USMCR (Ret):
http://www.mca-marines.org/Leatherneck/nov01pentagonarch.htm
• Afework Hagos, 26, of Arlington, is a computer programmer, a
consultant for Nextel. On
his way to work he was stuck in a traffic jam on Columbia Pike, near
the Pentagon when the
plane flew over.
"There was a huge screaming noise and I got out of the car as the
plane came over. Everybody
was running away in different directions. It was tilting its wings up
and down like it was trying
to balance. It hit some lampposts on the way in."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,550486,00.html
 He saw a plane flying very low and close to nearby buildings. "I
thought something was
coming down on me. I know this plane is going to crash. I've never
seen a plane like this so low."
He said he looked at it and saw American Airline insignia and when it
made impact with the
Pentagon initially he saw smoke, then flames.
http://a188.g.akamaitech.net/f/188/920/5m/www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/sep01/attack.html
Dave Winslow, AP Radio Reporter lives across the street. He saw
"the tail of a large airliner ."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4254882,00.html
Eugenio Hernandez, an AP video journalist, was driving by the Pentagon
and saw the plane
crashing. He borrowed a tourist's video camera began shooting.
http://www.apbroadcast.com/AP+Broadcast/about+us/miscellaneous/in+the+news.htm
Christine Peterson, ’73 found herself in the thick of last month’s
terrorist
tragedy, and submitted this report:
". . I was at a complete stop on the road in front of the helipad at
the
Pentagon; what I had thought would be a shortcut was as slow as the
other
routes I had taken that morning. I looked idly out my window to the
left --
and saw a plane flying so low I said, “holy cow, that plane is going
to hit
my car” (not my actual words). The car shook as the plane flew over.
It
was so close that I could read the numbers under the wing."
http://www.naualumni.com/News/News.cfm?ID=613&c=4
Fred Gaskins, was driving to his job as a national editor at USA TODAY
near the Pentagon
when the plane passed about 150 feet overhead.
"(The plane) was flying fast and low and the Pentagon was the obvious
target, It was flying very smoothly and calmly, without any hint that
anything was wrong."
• Aydan Kizildrgli, an English language student who is a native of
Turkey, saw
the jetliner bank slightly.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/09/11/attack-usat.htm
• Kirk Milburn, a construction supervisor for Atlantis Co. was on the
Arlington National
Cemetery exit of Interstate 395.
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"I was right underneath the plane. I heard a plane. I saw it. I saw
debris flying. I guess it was
hitting light poles. It was like a WHOOOSH whoosh, then there was fire
and smoke, then I heard
a second explosion."
Steve Patterson, is a graphics artist who works at 
home.in
 a
14th-floor apartment in Pentagon
City. While watching events unfold on TV he saw a silver commuter jet
fly past his window
about 150 yards away, approaching from the west about 20 feet off the
ground ,
He said it appeared to him that a commuter jet which appeared to hold
about eight to 12
people, headed straight for the Pentagon but was flying as if coming
in for a landing on a
nonexistent runway.
The plane, which sounded like the high-pitched squeal of a fighter
jet, flew over Arlington
cemetary so low that he thought it was going to land on I-395.
"at a frightening rate .???.???. just slicing into that building." He saw
bright orange flames shoot
out the back of the building.
John Damoose, a Travis City, Mich. native who was in a meeting said
"everybody got
nervous. .???.???. We didn't know whether to stay inside or go outside.
The thing with terrorist attacks
is that you don't know what is the next thing that will happen."
He said the worst part was leaving the Pentagon and walking along Fort
Meyer Drive, a bike
trail, "you could see pieces of the plane."
http://a188.g.akamaitech.net/f/188/920/5m/www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/sep01/attack.html
Father Stephen McGraw was driving to a graveside service at Arlington
national Cemetery. McGraw estimates that the plane passed about 20
feet over his
car, as he waited on the northbound side of Washington Boulevard.
"I was in the left hand lane with my windows closed. I did not hear
anything at
all until the plane was just right above our cars."
"The plane clipped the top of a light pole just before it got to us,
injuring a taxi driver, whose
taxi was just a few feet away from my car.
http://www.dcmilitary.com/army/pentagram/6_39/local_news/10772-1.html
http://www.mdw.army.mil/news/Pentagon_crash_eyewitness_comforted_victims.html
Allen Cleveland of Woodbridge Virginia looked out from a Metro train
going to
National Airport, to see a jet heading down toward the Pentagon.
"I thought, 'There's no landing strip on that side of the subway
tracks,' " Before he
could process that thought, he saw "a huge mushroom cloud. A lady
staThe lady
next to me was in absolute hysterics."
" . . a silver pasenger jet, mid sized"
http://mfile.akamai.com/920/rm/thepost.download.akamai.com/920/nation/091101-5s.ram
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170005.html
Meseidy Rodriguez confirms "it was a mid size plane".
Oscar Martinez ``.. saw a big jet flying close to the building coming
at full speed. There was
a big noise when it hit the building,'' said , who witnessed the
attack.
http://www.firehouse.com/terrorist/11_APdc.html
Ron Turner, the Navy’s deputy chief information officer, was standing
at a funeral at
Arlington National Cemetery:
“There was a huge fireball, followed by the [usual] black cloud of a
fuel burn.”
“It reminded me of being back in Vietnam, watching Tan Son Nhut Air
Base burn.”
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0901/091301j3.htm
ARFF fire Crews reported fires on every floor of the "D" and "E"
rings. The aircraft had
penetrated all the way to the "C" ring.
"The only way you could tell that an aircraft was inside was that we
saw pieces of the nose
gear.
http://www.nfpa.org/NFPAJournal/OnlineExclusive/Exclusive_11_01_01/exclusive_11.01.01.asp
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Ken Ford, a State Department employee, watched from the 15th floor of
the State Department
Annex,just across the Potomac River from the Pentagon.
We were watching the airport through binoculars, Ford said, referring
to Reagan National
Airport, a short distance away.The plane was a two-engine turbo prop
that flew up the river
from National. Then it turned back toward the Pentagon.We thought
it had been waved off and then it hit the building.
Daniel and Cynthia McAdams said they were sitting in their kitchen
drinking coffee in their third-floor condominium in Arlington,Va.,just
two miles from the
Pentagon when they heard a plane fly directly over head around 9:45
a.m. It was unusually loud
and low.
http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2001/09/pdf/09112001EXTRA2.pdf
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2001/0912/wor5.htm
Steve Riskus, 
steve...@aol.com
 wrote:
I took these pictures less then 1 minutes after I watched the american
airlines 757 airplane
crash into the pentagon on september 11 2001. I left shortly after the
picture were taken in fear of
further attacks.
Feel free to contact me anytime if you have questions about my
pictures.
I did acctually see the plane impact the building.
http://www.criticalthrash.com/terror/crashthumbnails.html
Mickey Bell, an electrical contractor's foreman was working to
renovate the second and third
floors. Outside, and less than 100 feet from the initial impact of the
plane, he was very nearly
struck by one of the wings as they sped by him. He had just left the
project trailer (that exploded)
when he heard a loud noise. The next thing he recalled was picking
himself off the floor, where
he had been thrown by the blast.
He got into his truck, parked in the trailer compound, and sped away.
Plastic and rivets from
an airplane were later found imbedded in its sheet metal
http://www.necanet.org/whats_new/report.cfm?ID=1003
:
http://www.ecmag.com/industrynews/index.cfm?fuseaction=view&art_id=1115
"We went out to look at his truck and the truckbed was filled with all
kinds of debris that must
have come from the blast. He's one really lucky guy,"
Wayne T. Day, President of ' Kirlin', Rockville MD, says
"We had one guy who was standing, looking out the window and saw the
plane when it was
coming in. He was in front of one of the blast- resistant windows,"
http://www.designbuildmag.com/oct2001/pentagon1001.asp
Steve Snaman, manager of the datacom division for Walker Seals,
watched from Fort McNair
(across the river) as the jetliner came in low at full throttle,
banked left and smashed into the
wall of the Pentagon.
http://www.ecmag.com/industrynews/index.cfm?fuseaction=view&art_id=1117
and
http://www.coping.org/911/survivor/pentagon.htm
Eyewitness Account of Pentagon Attack 
By: Terry Morin
An eye-witness account of the aircraft impact into the pentagon and
subsequent rescue efforts...written by a former USMC aviator working
as a contractor at the BMDO offices at the old Navy Annex.
Friends, Family, and Fellow Americans,
As many of you know, two SPARTANs were in locations on Tuesday to
witness the attack on the Pentagon.  Many people have asked me to
share the events of that day.  So, while fresh, here are my memories
of that fateful day. 
The Attack
I had just reached the elevator in the 5th Wing of BMDO/Federal Office
Building (FOB) #2 – call it approximately 9:36 AM.  I was already
trying to make some sense out of the World Trade Tower attacks having
heard about them on the radio.  The news was sketchy, but the fact
that it was a terrorist attack was already known.  I then realized
that I was wearing sunglasses and needed to go back to Lot 3 to
retrieve my clear lenses.  Since it was by no means a short walk to my
car, I was upset with myself for being so distracted.  Approximately
10 steps out from between Wings 4 and 5, I was making a gentle right
turn towards the security check-in building just above Wing 4 when I
became aware of something unusual.  I can’t remember exactly what I
was thinking about at that moment, but I started to hear an
increasingly loud rumbling behind me and to my left.  As I turned to
my left, I immediately realized the noise was bouncing off the 4-story
structure that was Wing 5.  One to two seconds later the airliner came
into my field of view.  By that time the noise was absolutely
deafening. I instantly had a very bad feeling about this but things
were happening very quickly.  The aircraft was essentially right over
the top of me and the outer portion of the FOB (flight path parallel
the outer edge of the FOB). Everything was shaking and vibrating,
including the ground.   I estimate that the aircraft was no more than
100 feet above me (30 to 50 feet above the FOB) in a slight nose down
attitude.  The plane had a silver body with red and blue stripes down
the fuselage. I believed at the time that it belonged to American
Airlines, but I couldn’t be sure. It looked like a 737 and I so
reported to authorities.
Within seconds the plane cleared the 8th Wing of BMDO and was heading
directly towards the Pentagon.  Engines were at a steady high-pitched
whine, indicating to me that the throttles were steady and full.  I
estimated the aircraft speed at between 350 and 400 knots.  The flight
path appeared to be deliberate, smooth, and controlled.  As the
aircraft approached the Pentagon, I saw a minor flash (later found out
that the aircraft had sheared off a portion of a highway light pole
down on Hwy 110).  As the aircraft flew ever lower I started to lose
sight of the actual airframe as a row of trees to the Northeast of the
FOB blocked my view.  I could now only see the tail of the aircraft.
I believe I saw the tail dip slightly to the right indicating a minor
turn in that direction.  The tail was barely visible when I saw the
flash and subsequent fireball rise approximately 200 feet above the
Pentagon.  There was a large explosion noise and the low frequency
sound echo that comes with this type of sound.  Associated with that
was the increase in air pressure, momentarily, like a small gust of
wind.  For those formerly in the military, it sounded like a 2000lb
bomb going off roughly ½ mile in front of you.  At once there was a
huge cloud of black smoke that rose several hundred feet up.  Elapsed
time from hearing the initial noise to when I saw the impact flash was
between 12 and 15 seconds.   
The Reaction
Many of the FOB people had been looking at the news reports flowing
out of the attack on the World Trade Center Towers, going about their
normal work routine as they watched. Maybe half or a bit more already
knew of the New York attacks.  However, within seconds of the impact
-- less than a minute after the FOB flyover -- several thousand people
started exiting the FOB.  People poured through the vehicle security
checkpoint, crossing Columbia Pike into the FOB parking lot.  As
people were leaving the building in a very rapid manner, emergency
vehicles, police, fire engines and ambulances were racing to the
scene. They began arriving within 3 to 5 minutes of the impact.
Several military officers were standing in the middle of Columbia
Pike, essentially directing traffic and holding the pedestrians back
so that emergency vehicles could get through. The looks on their faces
were somewhere between shock, terror, horror, and confusion.  Many
were crying.  Many were stunned.  Some were yelling to clear the area,
move away from the buildings.  Concern was that we might be the next
target.  Some were indicating that people should go home, but most
just stared in silence at the burning West Wing of the Pentagon. Some
cars were leaving the compound as well as the parking lot, but very
few. Many tried to make phone calls to family or to home offices to
say they were safe, but within minutes of the attack the sheer volume
of traffic clobbered cell phones and other lines of communication.
Those that got through needed patience and persistence.
As groups of friends and co-workers gathered to look on, immediate
declarations of anger, frustration, dismay came out. We stood in the
parking lot for approximately 15 minutes when a call came out for
help.   What must have been a hundred people moved in the direction of
the Pentagon together and without hesitation. I saw Vicki Aardema,
Chris Avvisato, John Schessler, and former SPARTAN Jen Metzler all
walking down to the scene.  As we got closer and crossed over the now
empty roads, the devastation could be seen through the smoke and
flames.  It was just unbelievable.  The police started to turn people
away from the site. FBI agents were already there and had declared the
whole area a crime scene.  Declaring a crime scene prevents people
from getting in that are not police, fire or medical type personnel.
I was allowed to proceed because I witnessed the event.  Ultimately, I
believe that only Jen Metzler and myself made it to the scene, but I
didn’t run into her for the rest of the day. 
Rescue and Recovery 
After I shared a couple of things that I had seen to a local law
enforcement official -- what I will call a perimeter policeman -- he
hustled me off to an FBI agent named Mike.  He took what I would call
a ¾ statement, then told me to go to the Command Post (CP) and wait.
Someone else would want to discuss what I saw.  At that point I met a
young African American who was standing next to Mike, the FBI agent.
He had streaks of blood on his T-shirt and was wearing bandages on
both arms.  Apparently he had been standing in the Control Tower for
the Helo Pad that was approximately 200 feet to the North of the
actual impact point.  He still looked as though he was in shock, but
indicated that he had witnessed the impact.  I then confirmed that the
aircraft had been flown directly into the Pentagon without hitting the
ground first or skipping into the building.  As he and I were walking
in the direction of the CP, medical supplies started to arrive.  A van
pulled up and they asked for volunteers to unload.  Items in the van
seemed to have been loaded very hurriedly: individual packs of 4x4
gauze, irrigation fluid, IV and oxygen equipment, wooden stretchers.
Medical folks were trying to get a handle on it.  Get the stuff out
and get it organized.  Nurses were cracking the organizational whip:
IV stuff here, fluid there, get those litters out of the way.  About
that time, we got the first of 4 or 5 calls to take cover.  Reports
had been received of other aircraft coming in for what could be a
subsequent attack. At about the same time the upper floors on the
Pentagon caved in and collapsed.  I didn’t see it, but many in the
crowd acknowledged the event.
We picked up the supplies and moved them under a concrete overpass
with a small tunnel of about 100 feet or so of coverage.  I saw a
couple of injured folks, but they appeared to be in good hands –
injuries did not seem from a distance to be life threatening.  After a
couple of the follow-on attack scares, many of us were formed up into
4-man stretcher teams. Approximately 30 teams were formed.  We were
moved up to the scene and given rubber gloves. We were taken in
several directions, but finally landed about 300 feet west of the Helo
Pad out on Hwy 110.  They had set up the medical people under the
trees, putting the three levels of care in a line.  Dead and dying
were on the North end, triage and serious in the middle, walking
wounded on the South end.  Doctors, Nurses, Paramedics, Flight
Surgeons, EMT’s – every brand of medical professional – were
everywhere. Hwy 110 became a staging point for ambulances, and police
vehicles.  Fire trucks had already been moved into position to fight
the fires that were proceeding to the left, right, and into the center
of the Pentagon.  Every time we moved up to try and take people out,
the fires would flare-up making it impossible to put non-professionals
with no equipment into the building.  That said, there were not enough
firemen to simultaneously fight the fire and do stretcher duty, so
they asked us to hang tight. 
After about three hours, the officials started to become concerned
about the volunteers.  It was hot and most of us had been standing or
working in the sun for the entire time.  That’s when an unbelievable
amount of supplies started to show up.  Gallon water jugs, bottled
water, Gatorade, soda, snacks -- you name it and it was there.  The
volunteers started to unload and stage the supplies.  Several of us
started to build a forward water station for the firemen.  Only a few
of the bottles were cold, so ice was being brought in to help that
situation.  We used cardboard boxes to hold the drinks and the ice as
best we could, there being no large coolers available. Three of us
started carrying the cold water bottles and snacks down to the
firefighters that were staged in small teams. We were actually inside
the crime scene area (because of all the pieces of the aircraft and
building lying on the ground).  The firemen were appreciative, as the
heat inside the building generated from the 8,500 gallons of jet fuel
was, in their words, “unbelievable.”  It was reported that at least
three of the fireman had to be given IV fluids due to the extreme
heat. After about 20 minutes a local policeman came over and made us
vacate the water station (inside the crime scene designated area)
because it was obvious that we weren’t law enforcement. 
For the next three hours we waited to be called up to help bring
people out.  At about 3PM, we were formed into 12 man teams, reissued
gloves and masks, and briefed by authorities on how to do the job.  At
this point, we were going to enter the Pentagon, but not too far.
Because the fire was still burning, the structure was not safe for
deeper penetration by non-professionals.  The idea was that the
firemen would bring the bodies to us and we would carry them out.
Within 15 minutes of that briefing, a 3-Star Army Lt General gathered
us up.  He announced that the Old Guard from Ft Myer was being brought
in to replace us within 3 hours.  The 12 man litter teams continued to
wait in place until the Old Guard arrived.  
The People
The mood was somber and filled with frustration, anger, and shock.
People wanted to get inside to help those injured or trapped.  Those
immediately outside the Pentagon were not being told of the scene
inside, so there was some perceived jerking around going on.  It
wasn’t until later that it all fell into place. In the moments where
the action slowed, discussions revolved around who was where, what
they were doing, and what they saw.  I heard a lot of questions: Who
was in the office spaces?  How many people on the aircraft?  What type
of plane?  Was it an airliner?  Do we know or have any word on the
dead or injured?  How did the aircraft hit?  Did it fly in or did it
hit the ground first?  A thousand more questions waited. 
I met some real Americans that day.  The following are just a few of
the people that I met and short stories about them.  No last names: 
Chris:  He was one of my many litter partners.  A young Army SSgt who
is the Chef for the Army Chief of Staff.  At one point, when we didn’t
have masks to wear, he took off his T-shirt and proceeded to tear it
up so we could be a little safer.
Christina:  She works in Air Force Intel.  She was my water station
partner.  Energetic, just wanted to be a part of the solution.
Carried full boxes of water and ice, as well as snacks to the firemen.
She also jumped in to organize the snacks so the firemen and the
medical people could find what they wanted. 
Larry:  Air Force 2 Star General.  Was the senior officer present on
the scene for the Air Force.  Larry was coordinating people counts and
Air Force volunteer actions on the ground.  He was taking several
reports and discussing what people had seen and heard.  For most of
the day, he stood with most of us as a litter team member.  Later that
evening, I gave him a ride home since the Metro was not stopping at
the Pentagon.
The Marine Colonel:  As we were standing there in the hot sun, a
Marine Colonel had stepped into line to serve as a litter team member.
He was wearing Alpha’s with a barracks cover.  That means he was
dressed up in the green coat with all of his decorations.  As he
stepped into line, he very carefully took off his coat and cover (hat)
and laid it on the concrete median there on Hwy 110.  He then took off
his tie and rolled up his sleeves.  The entire time I was around him,
off and on, I didn’t hear him speak a word.  Other young Marine
Officers were standing around him, giving him reports on what they
knew and had heard.  The thing that struck me the most was the look on
his face.  “Resolve” is the word that comes to mind.  Calm, Focused
Resolve.
Ken:  A retired Army Officer who is now serving as part of the Army
Personnel Office.  He was knocked to the floor in the
impact/explosion.  The smoke was so thick he had to crawl a ways in
his escape.  His section was the most heavily hit.  He lost several
friends and co-workers.  Ken was there the entire day, despite his own
ordeal.  I also dropped him off at his car that night. 
Reggy:  He is an Army Major.  He was my partner for going into the
Pentagon.  One goes down, your partner brings you out.  I fear he had
the worse end of that deal. 
Sgt Maj:  From the Army, he was coordinating the 12 man litter teams.
When he got to me, he said, “Sir, are you sure you’re up to this.”  I
told him I was and gave him a quick “Arugha.”  He smiled and we
pressed on.
An Army 2 Star General and An Army 1 Star General: In our 3rd or 4th
run for cover due to possible follow-on attacks, my Company picked up
the bill for a couple of minutes on my cell phone.  These gents had
not yet got local phone calls out to their wives yet to let them know
they were alive.  There were also a couple of more calls for them to
report to the ops centers.  It turned out that the 1 Star was the son
of a Four Star Army General that I had served with in Korea in 1985
and 1986.
3 Star Army General:  Grayed hair gentleman that would have qualified
as a southern gentleman by the way he carried himself.  He spoke in a
forceful, clear, and compassionate manner.  He appeared to be the
on-scene commander.  He moved about taking reports and apparently
directing the military and volunteer actions there on scene.  His last
words to us after announcing that the Old Guard would relieve us were,
“thank you all for being here, and God Bless each of you.”
There were 3 Flag Rank Officers, several O-6’s from all the services,
and a multitude of others (civilians, contractors, and others) that
made up the volunteer ranks.  No one argued. Everyone did whatever was
asked without a second thought.   There must have been 30 Chaplains
and men of the cloth (not just military) there.  Every now and then
one would be called up for help, but they too were put into a group so
they could respond to the individuals or bodies being brought out.  In
addition to that, I saw several mingling with the entire team,
medical, volunteers, and others, ministering to the pain and shock
that was there.  Civilian nurses, paramedics, and other medical
personnel showed up with logos from several of the local hospitals.
Some of the woman nurses were older, but you should have seen how they
got up and over the concrete Highway barriers with full dresses and
skirts on, sometimes on their own, sometimes with assistance.
Teamwork was everywhere.  
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