Pentagon memorial

Design plan of the Pentagon Memorial

The Pentagon Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the 184 people who died in the building and on American Airlines Flight 77 in the September 11, 2001 attacks . It is located southwest of the Pentagon in Arlington , United States.

The memorial was designed by Julie Beckman and Keith Kaseman of Kaseman Beckman Advanced Strategies architectural firm.

Inauguration ceremony

The first memorial bench with a victim's name on it unveiled at the inauguration ceremony

The memorial was inaugurated on September 11, 2008 by US President George W. Bush . More than 20,000 people attended the ceremony, including Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen and former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Robert M. Gates . The memorial was opened to the public at 7 p.m. with a separate ceremony.

photos

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  America's Heroes Memorial inside the Pentagon

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  Ceremony to mark the start of construction on the Pentagon Memorial

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  The illuminated Pentagon on the sixth anniversary of September 11, 2001

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  The Pentagon Chapel

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  Spectators at the inauguration ceremony on September 11, 2008

See also

• Places with 9/11 memorials in the US

Web links

Commons : Pentagon Memorial  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• The Pentagon Memorial website
• The Pentagon Force Protection Agency
• The Pentagon Memorial Fund
• Report from the US news agency CNN on the competition for the design of the Pentagon memorial
• Department of Defense press release "From the Inside Out: Sept. 11 Memorialized" , DefenseLINK News

Coordinates: 38 ° 52 '15.4 "  N , 77 ° 3' 31.3"  W.