On Sept. 11, 2001, Pentagon reporters were assembled in the press office of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, preparing to report what they were watching on TV as it unfolded in New York — not yet aware of what would soon happen to the building in which they stood. Recounting the day 20 years later, longtime Pentagon reporter Barbara Starr said the journalists who worked there had all come together to watch one of history’s most pivotal moments. “We’re all looking at the TV, and the second plane hits,” she recalled. She said she walked down the hall to see a general leave a command center and
On Sept. 11, 2001, Pentagon reporters were assembled in the press office of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, preparing to report what they were watching on TV as it unfolded in New York — not yet aware of what would soon happen to the building in which they stood. Recounting the day 20 years later, longtime Pentagon reporter Barbara Starr said the journalists who worked there had all come together to watch one of history’s most pivotal moments. “We’re all looking at the TV, and the second plane hits,” she recalled. She said she walked down the hall to see a general leave a command center and