The terrorists extinguished the life and potential of eleven-year-old “Little” Bernard C. Brown II by crashing the first plane he’d ever boarded. On almost any other weekday, Navy Chief Petty Officer Bernard Brown Sr. would have been inside the Pentagon’s newly renovated Wedge One. But “Big Bernard” had taken the day off, so he wasn’t there when Flight 77 carried his bright, charismatic son to his death.
