I was at the Pentagon on 9/11. Here’s what surprises me 25 years later.

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was at my desk in the Pentagon’s E-Ring, where I worked as a speechwriter, when American Airlines Flight 77 plowed into the building. The walls of my office violently shuddered and smoke filled the hallway — but no evacuation alarm ever sounded. Those of us blesse...

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