The Pentagon, Arlington, Va., Sept. 11, 2016: President Barack Obama speaks on the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks at the Pentagon beneath a large American flag marking the spot an airliner crashed into the building on Sept. 11, 2001.

Stars and Stripes reporters Lisa Burgess and Sandra Jontz were at work at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists crashed a commercial airliner into the building. Five years later, they recounted their recollections of that day.

Read the 2006 article here: https://www.stripes.com/migration/five-years-later-two-stripes-reporters-recall-chaos-fear-of-pentagon-attack-1.53941