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The Pentagon Memorial, formally the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial, located just southwest of the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., 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 attacks.
Fashion Centre at Pentagon City, originally the Pentagon City Mall, is an enclosed shopping mall in the Pentagon City neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, near Interstate 395 and Hayes Street. Its Metro level is directly connected to the Pentagon City station on the Blue and Yellow Lines of the Washington Metro .
The 1967 March on the Pentagon was a massive demonstration against the Vietnam War that took place on October 21, 1967. The event began with more than 100,000 protesters at a rally near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C..
An aerial view of the Pentagon following the attacks. Since the Pentagon was struck after the World Trade Center, many who worked there did not think the attack would extend past New York City. A media relations specialist who was working in the building at the time recounted years later that she told a coworker, "This is the safest place to be ...
Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA) Washington Headquarters Services (WHS) [Field Activity] Other DOD Components: Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals; Army and Air Force Exchange Service; Defense Acquisition University (DAU) Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) (component of DOD Office of Inspector General)
All of the Pentagon's entrances were secured after the attack except the one leading from the Metro. All were reopened according to Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman. The Metro station had also been reopened by 8:00 p.m. except the entrance nearest the area of the shooting. Whitman said the subway entrance was likely to remain closed overnight. [2]
The pentagram contains ten points (the five points of the star, and the five vertices of the inner pentagon) and fifteen line segments. It is represented by the Schläfli symbol {5/2}. Like a regular pentagon, and a regular pentagon with a pentagram constructed inside it, the regular pentagram has as its symmetry group the dihedral group of ...
The section of the Pentagon that was struck, which had recently been renovated at a cost of $250 million (~$436 million in 2023), [73] housed the Naval Command Center. [74] A fire at the Pentagon, with police and EMS in the foreground. The fatalities in the Pentagon included 55 military personnel and 70 civilians. [75]