More than two decades after American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, ground was broken Saturday on a visitor education center at the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial — a facility long envisioned but long delayed. The center, expected to open in 2029, will give the 184 victims something beyond a name on a bench: a place where their stories, and the weight of that morning, can be passed forward to those who were not yet alive to witness it. In this way, memory becomes architecture, and grief becomes a form of civic instruction.
Pentagon 9/11 Memorial breaks ground on long-delayed visitor center
184 people died in the September 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon.