The Pentagon Memorial

So this past week while Robert & Sarah and the kids were here, we stopped to visit the Pentagon Memorial...one that I had seen from afar but never gone to basically because it didn't look all that great. (Is that wrong to say?)

However, this memorial has soo much symbolism, it's amazing. It actually reminds me a lot of the Bonfire Memorial.

Entrance to the memorial

You can see the "new part" by the color variations. The Pentagon has been being re-done in phases...this part had just been re-done before it was hit...had that not been the case, the damage and loss could have been much worse.



To honor the 184 victims, 184 illuminated benches, have been arranged according to the victim's ages, from 3 to 71, in a landscaped 1.93-acre plot. Each bench is engraved with the name of a victim. The benches representing the victims that were inside the Pentagon are arranged so those reading the names will face the Pentagon's south facade, where the plane hit; benches dedicated to victims aboard the plane are arranged so that those reading the engraved name will be facing skyward along the path the plane traveled.





1947 had the highest number of losses.




Pilot