 I was working in the Pentagon in the Secretary of Defense's program analysis and evaluation section as an analyst for projection forces. I remember that morning the Navy analyst came into my office, he and I were good friends and he said, hey, just talk to my wife. And she said that an airplane hit a building in New York and we didn't think a whole lot about it at the time that there was an attack or anything and a couple of minutes later we went into my boss's office, he had the CNN website up and we were looking at this picture of the airplane hitting the building and at that moment we felt the Pentagon shake and we could hear a big sound and I remember Mr. Coulter looking over at us and going what was that and everybody was just kind of stunned. The last thing we really expected was a plane, we thought maybe it was, I don't guess we really knew what it was, we thought maybe an earthquake or a bomb or something like that and a couple of minutes later we heard somebody running down the hallway shouting you need to evacuate, you need to evacuate, a plane has hit the building. It was really mass confusion, you see these disaster movies where people are moving around in a rather chaotic fashion and it was chaos from the standpoint that there's 25,000 people trying to leave a building at the same time. But I would say that it was orderly and it was as well managed as something like that can be and so we're walking outside of the Pentagon and it was a beautiful day, there wasn't a cloud in the sky and I remember our secretary in our office saying look at those rain, those storm clouds and the Navy guy and I said those aren't clouds and you could smell the strong smell of fuel in the air. As we made our way through the mall we were walking by the TGI Fridays restaurant and that's when the first tower came down. I remember seeing it on the TV. I remember thinking everybody's lives have just been changed and not really knowing how they would be changed. I also remember thinking in a couple of us were talking along the way that we knew immediately that was Osama bin Laden that did that. I mean you knew that he was a bad guy, you just didn't really know how bad. You know, Brian Jack had sent an email out like all the SESs did that he was going to be gone and that kind of thing and the word started trickling around that Brian had been killed and it was quite a shock but he was on the airplane that hit the building. If he had been at work he would have been fine because he was only one corridor over from the office I was in but I thought that was, I always thought that was really cruelly ironic that you know here this guy who worked in the Pentagon, the subject of the attack was actually on the plane and he was a nice man, he wasn't, there was no arrogance to him. He was a mathematician so I always think about him over all this terrorism and stuff because there wasn't a malicious bone in his body and he certainly, there was no way a good man like that, not that anyone would deserve that but certainly not him. So that's one of those things I always think about when 9-11 rolls around. I guess the thing that I would ask people to do is to think of some of the best people that you know and realize that a lot of the people that were killed on that day are just like them. They were good people, they were dedicated to what they were doing and their lives were wrongly taken from them. It really I think focused me more, I had, at that time I was probably looking at just retiring at 20 years of service and moving on but you know at that point I knew we were at war. I didn't realize it would, you know how long it would be but I knew that I wasn't going to retire until the Marine Corps no longer needed me, we weren't at war anymore.