American Phoenix Quotes

“As soon as an “all clear” was given to reenter the Pentagon, Defina and Battalion Chief Walter Hood, along with several other battalion chiefs and their crews, entered the wedge with attack lines. They found victims burned to death where they stood, killed so quickly that the bodies didn’t have time to fall. Some people were melted into desk and cabinet tops. Some were propped against walls.”
― Lincoln M. Starnes, American Phoenix: Heroes of the Pentagon on 9/11

“Donald Bouchoux, a fifty-three-year-old retired navy pilot, saw an emergency oxygen bottle shoot across the hood of his Ford Explorer. James Cissell, in another car, saw a tire rim pass his window. He sat in his car, terrified. As the plane passed by him, he had actually seen the faces of some of the passengers looking helplessly through the windows.”
― Lincoln M. Starnes, American Phoenix: Heroes of the Pentagon on 9/11