Firsthand witness testimony of the 9/11/01 Pentagon attack
I witnessed the sound of the bombing of the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001. I say bombing and not plane crash because what I witnessed was a shock wave explosion and not the sound of a plane crashing. At the time I lived in an apartment located on the west side of Alexandria, near Route 395; see blue star in map below. The Pentagon was located 7.5 miles to my northeast; see red star in map. On that fateful morning at 9:37 AM I was indoors in my apartment working at my computer when I heard a distant boom sound. I could feel the shock wave from the explosion penetrate through my apartment. I was at the time startled since I had been living in Alexandria for three years and had not heard anything like it. The image that first came to mind was that someone had detonated some dynamite somewhere in the city, perhaps to make an excavation for a building or tunnel. But that could not be since such operations are prohibited in city limits. More