Roy Wallace, who was assistant deputy chief of staff for the Army, was 50 feet from the path of the aeroplane crash. He vividly recalls the fire sucking the oxygen out of the room where he was.
Lieutenant Colonel Brian Birdwell was yards from the plane when it hit. He was engulfed in flames. Wallace later retrieved a clock from his office. It had stopped 19 minutes after the time the plane struck. Gerry Kitzhaber, a deputy assistant secretary, narrowly escaped death by chance.
His wife had called to tell him about the plane crashes in New York, delaying him from going to a meeting. He would have been in a corridor hit directly by Flight Evacuating in a stampede of people out of the building to the street, Kitzhaber encountered a delivery truck driver who had witnessed the crash.
Mark Lewis was waiting to meet with Lt. After he learned Maude was backed up with other meetings, Lewis was heading back to his desk when the plane hit.
He was helping people evacuate when a lieutenant colonel collapsed in front of him and three others. Each of their stories mirror what happened that day in New York. In the midst of chaos, Americans stepped up to help one another, in many cases saving the lives of others. Everyday citizens became heroes for the strangers around them. Chief Warrant Officer 4 William Wilkins, a sergeant at the time, says he was simply doing his job.
When the plane hit, Wilkins recalled being able to see the smoke from where he and his soldiers stood and most assumed it was an accident of some kind, until his sergeant first class came out and told them to prepare to leave. Within minutes, the soldiers were on their way. They set up a tactical operations center outside the building and continued helping in any way they could.
But what Wilkins will likely be remembered for came the next day. He was still at the Pentagon when an Army captain approached with the garrison flag, the largest U.
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