Remembering 9/11
September 11th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Alan Lessig
Nine years ago today, our nation suffered it’s worst terrorist attack ever as four hijacked airliners crashed into the twin towers at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and into a field in rural Pennsylvania.
Former Army Times photographer Warren Zinn raced to New York and and while on the roof of the Verizon Building, which is next to the World Trade Center, he photographed Verizon employee Mike Carrigan, who found a phone card that had fallen onto the roof. The phone card ironically showed a picture of the twin towers before they had collapsed into the rubble seen here.
Navy Times reporter Mark Faram was at the Navy Annex next to the Pentagon when he heard American Airlines Flight 77 roar by and explode as it crashed into the building. He ran down the hill and arrived outside the west entrance of the Pentagon where he found a Priest praying over a wounded man that had managed to get out of the burning building. All around, service members, DOD employees, and emergency workers mobilized to help the injured.
Stand Here
September 1st, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Carlton W. Kent’s office at the Pentagon on Wednesday, September 1, 2010.
Admiral Mullen and Rosita
April 13th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talks with Rosita, a resident of Sesame Street, before a sneak preview of the PBS special "When Families Grieve" on April 13 at the Pentagon.
So, About That Missing Russian Freighter….
September 21st, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates hosts an honor cordons to welcome Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak to the Pentagon.
Read the Fine Print
September 10th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
Army Linguist Payam Abrarahadi, 22, from Tehran, Iran, examines his naturalization certificate after a citizenship ceremony at the Pentagon.
Pentagon Protest on the 6th Anniversary
March 21st, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
At least several thousand people marched this weekend on the Pentagon, roughly between 5,000-8,000 would be a good guess – since the Park Service doesn’t do official counts anymore. It was substantially smaller than than many of the protests I’ve covered in previous years – 2003 in DC and the 2004 Republican National Convention in NYC – but I was surprised that there was even this much of a turnout – mostly young folks, with a few noticeably visible vets up front. Protests in the U.S., both anti-war and anti-globalization, seem to have fallen off dramatically in the last few years.