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National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial | |
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Location | Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America |
Coordinates | 38°52′14.052″N 77°3′33.264″W / 38.87057000°N 77.05924000°W |
Established | September 11, 2008 |
Governing body | Pentagon Memorial Fund |
Website | https://pentagonmemorial.org/ |
The Pentagon Memorial, formally the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial, located just southwest of the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., is a permanent outdoor memorial to the 184 people who died as victims in the building and on American Airlines Flight 77 during the September 11 attacks.[1]
Designed by Julie Beckman and Keith Kaseman of the architectural firm of Kaseman Beckman Advanced Strategies[2] with engineers Buro Happold,[3] the memorial opened on September 11, 2008, seven years after the attack.