Modern Missions - “Then Came the Fire: Personal Accounts from the Pentagon, 11 September 2001”

The horrific events of 11 September 2001 are seared into the memories of many Americans and many others around the world. Out of the fires and rubble of those events have come a number of personal accounts that depict the initial shock of the attacks and their aftermath.

Retired U.S. Army historian Stephen J. Lofgren explores personal accounts of the attack on the Pentagon, based on hundreds of interviews with witnesses, first responders, and survivors of the Pentagon in the days immediately following the event.

Stephen J. Lofgren is the General Editor of “Then Came the Fire: Personal Accounts from the Pentagon, 11 September 2001,” published in 2011, by the U.S. Army Center of Military History at Fort McNair, where he was a division chief.