

In April 2001, after 40 years of dedicated service to the United States Army, Ernest M. Willcher retired from his civilian post in the Army General Counsel’s office and became an associate of Booz, Allen, & Hamilton, consulting at the Pentagon a few days each week.

Cecelia was born on June 2, 1960 to Mazie I. (Ward) Lawson and the late John F. Lawson. A native Washingtonian, she was the youngest of eight children.

Major Clifford L. Patterson, Jr. graduated from St. John’s College High School in 1986.

Madeline Moy turned 50 on September 10. She and her husband, Teddington “Ted” Hamm Moy, 48, celebrated with a low-key dinner of steak and cheese fries at Outback Steakhouse with their son, Daniel, 14.

Shelley Ann (Farr) Marshall was born on November 16, 1963 in Washington, DC. She grew up in Vienna, Virginia and graduated from Oakton High School, where she was on the honor roll for four consecutive years.

“She does not like airplanes,” Bing said. “She could hear them flying overhead from her office at the Pentagon. That’s why this is all so strange. She was always worried about a plane going down.”

Carolyn Halmon, 49, worked the day shift as a budget analyst for the Army at the Pentagon. Herman Halmon, her husband of nearly 30 years, worked evenings. But he managed to drag himself out of bed every morning to drive her to the Benning Road Metro station before 7:00 a.m., making sure to get a goodbye kiss from the girl he’d met in junior high in Bowman, South Carolina.

Brenda Colbert Gibson, 59, budget analyst, Resource Services Washington, Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army, a native Washingtonian, lived the last 13 years in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Born and raised in Washington, DC, Cortez Ghee was a budget analyst for the Department of the Army.

Sandra Nadine Foster was born on June 10, 1960 in Washington, DC, to Barbara E. Hill and the late Lawrence W. Hill. Sandra grew up in Washington, DC and graduated from Dunbar Senior High School in June 1978

Rodney Dickens grew up in tough Washington neighborhoods where danger lurks on most every corner, but he avoided it.

Asia Cottom, 11, had just started sixth grade at a new school, eager to learn and pleased to be at the campus where her father worked.
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Julian Theodore Cooper, known as ‘Coop’ to some, was born in Washington, DC on April 20, 1962.

Sara M. Clark, 65, and her fiancé had just decided to have their wedding reception at a yacht club in Baltimore.

David Michael Charlebois of Washington, DC, was First Officer on American Airlines Flight 77 on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, which crashed into the Pentagon.

Eleven-year-old Bernard Brown was clever, a quick wit, the kind of boy who kept his teachers on their toes.