'We pledge to never leave a fallen comrade behind,' says one of the survivors. American Airlines Flight 77, struck the Pentagon between Wedges 1 and 2. Anderson was in Wedge 2. Pentagon workers who had evacuated were trying to get inside to save their colleagues, but the firemen refused to let them, thereby saving their lives. majority of the roughly 22,000 people at the Pentagon that day survived the attack

Additional Tags

a&e television networks, llc, history.com: on 9/11, some evacuated the pentagon -- but kept going back inside, many heroes that day, pentagon attack, september 11, 2001

Show More Show Less

Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional