Let us pause to honor the lives of the 184 service members and civilians lost when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. Click here for a list of the names
Kathy Dillaber, whose sister Patty Mickley was killed Sept. 11, 2001, when a terrorist-commandeered airliner slammed into the building's west side, has mixed feelings about the soon-to-be-dedicated project.
"I hate this memorial — that it is here," says Dillaber. "I don't want it to be here. But it has to be. September 11 happened."
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Seven years after 184 were killed in the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon, a memorial opens to commemorate the lost.