Pentagon Memorial

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Lonely Planet review

In the fall of 2005 the Pentagon unveiled a new memorial to the 184 victims of the attack on the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. The poignant memorial plaza occupies almost 2 acres on the west side of the Pentagon building, representing each victim with a pool of light and an inscription read facing either the Pentagon or the sky. The Age Wall on the plaza's western edge grows in proportion to the ages of the victims, who ranged from three to 71.

The memorial design is symbolic down to the details: for example, memorials representing victims who were in the Pentagon are situated so a visitor sees the engraved name in the same view as the building; memorials to victims who were on flight 77 face an alternative direction, so the background is only sky.