Flagpole finial
notes: label: Description
content: Description: This scorched eagle finial from an office flagpole was recovered from the wreckage at the Pentagon.
label: Description
content: Context: The Pentagon houses over 23,000 civilian and military employees, and is headquarters for the U.S. Department of Defense. For the collecting curators, this damaged eagle, which once rested atop an office flagpole in the Pentagon, symbolically represents the U.S. military. After the attack the search-and-rescue effort was followed immediately by cleanup and reconstruction. Undaunted by the terrorist assault, some displaced workers were back in their offices less than one year after the attack.
label: Location
content: Currently on loan
place: label: recovered
content: United States: Virginia, Pentagon
title: label: Title
content: Flagpole finial
topic: label: associated subject
content: September 11 Terrorist Attacks
label: related event
content: September 11th Attacks
label: related event
content: Attack on the Pentagon
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, 9/11
label: See more items in
content: September 11
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0279.11
label: accession number
content: 2002.0279
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0279.11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Flagpole Finial
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 160 mm x 145 mm x 50 mm; 6 5/16 in x 5 11/16 in x 1 15/16 in