Pentagon Memorial

The memorial to the victims of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon opened recently and we visited while we were in DC.


This lists all 184 names of the victims of the attack.

There are 184 benches that represent each of the victims.

This shows the time and the date of the attack and is carved in the original granite from the Pentagon.

This bench is in memory of the youngest victim of the attack, 3-year-old Dana Falkenberg.

Underneath the bench is an eternity fountain that has a plaque that has the names of her family members who were also on the plane.

This bench is in memory of a service member who was in the Pentagon at the time of the attack. Someone left him a teddy bear.

You see in this picture that the benches are arranged in a way that some of them come out of the ground facing the Pentagon and others face away from the Pentagon. The ones facing toward are in memory of the victims who were on the airplane; the ones facing away were in the Pentagon.

The oldest victim was born in 1930 and was 71-years-old.

And the youngest born in 1998.