Inside the Pentagon on 9/11

McLaughlin's minute-by-minute account of the terrorist attack in Washington.

BY TIM MCLAUGHLIN | MARCH 14, 2013

With weeks to go before the invasion of Iraq, Lt. Tim McLaughlin reflected in one of his earliest diary entries on his experience at the Pentagon on the morning of the 9/11 attack. He and his brother Matt both worked there at the time, Tim as a general's assistant.

Above: Smoke rises from the Pentagon on 9/11.

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