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National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial

National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial is a sightseeing stop in Arlington, VA, part of the Washington DC guide. Cost: free.

1 Rotary Rd · Arlington, VA

Why you should go…

This outdoor memorial just southwest of the Pentagon honors the 184 people killed when American Airlines Flight 77 struck the building on September 11, 2001. Each victim has an engraved bench with a shallow lighted pool of flowing water beneath it, arranged by age from 3 to 71. Benches for those who died inside the Pentagon face the building, while those for the plane's passengers face the sky along its flight path. About 85 crape myrtle trees shade the roughly two-acre grounds, which opened in 2008.

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