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Today's Poll!Fulton general recalls 9/11 attack on Pentagon
‘I’m still in absolute shock’ says Maj. Gen. Byron Bagby
Maj. Gen. Byron Bagby, Ret. and his wife, Monique, participate in his retirement ceremony after 33 years of service to the U.S. Army.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Maj. Gen. Byron S. Bagby, Ret., who grew up in Fulton, Mo., has a personal reason to remember the 10th anniversary of 9/11, when New York and Washington, D.C., were attacked by terrorists.
Bagby was at the Pentagon on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when the attacks occurred.
“I recall standing with one of my associates watching a CNN television report and seeing a second aircraft hit the other World Trade Center tower,” Bagby said. “We commented that we were lucky in the Pentagon with 26,000 people working there and probably 40,000 passing through on subway lines and buses that we had not been struck by a plane. Only five minutes later, we felt this huge Pentagon building shake when we were struck by hijacked American Airlines Flight 77.”
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