Pentagon Memorial

I'm in Washington D.C. for 12 days for business:  National Girls Collaboration Project, USA Science and Engineering Festival and 3 days of team meetings in which I'm bringing my geographically dispersed employees together for the first time in a almost a year.  I had a bit of time today and went two Metro stops away from the hotel to the Pentagon and then walked to the south side of that huge building to the Memorial.  A work acquaintance Suzanne Calley, was on American flight 77 that fateful morning. My visit to the memorial was to remember her and pay tribute the other 183 souls lost.  The Pentagon Memorial is somber, serene and significant.  It is a architectural time line of the victim's ages, spanning from the youngest who was three to the oldest who was seventy-one.  Each memorial unit is an inlaid granite and steel cantilevered bench over a lighted pool of flowing water.  Each person's name is engraved on the bench and there is a plaque at the end of each pool of water for victims from the same family.  What I found most interesting is that the positioning of the benches distinguish the victims who were in the Pentagon versus on board American Airlines flight 77.  There are 125 memorial units where one can see the victim's name and the Pentagon in the same view.  The 59 memorial units honoring the lives lost on flight 77, one sees the victim's name and the direction of the plane's approach in the same view.