Pentagon Memorial

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The National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial, or simply the 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. Designed by Julie Beckman and Keith Kaseman of the architectural firm of Kaseman Beckman Advanced Strategies with engineers Buro Happold, the memorial opened on September 11, 2008, seven years after the attack. In addition to the outdoor memorial, the 9/11 Pentagon Memorial is the only one of the three 9/11 attack sites without a dedicated education center (VEC). This means that visitors to the memorial have no place to learn about the historical context and significance of the event, unlike the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York and the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville. The Pentagon Memorial Fund is working to build the VEC...

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