Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Sept. 11, 2024.

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On Sept. 11, 1940, groundbreaking began on the Pentagon building in Arlington, Virginia. Built as World War II was beginning to ramp up, the huge defense complex now has more than 30,000 workers and visitors in it every day.

It’s also become a metonym. It’s the Pentagon.

Sixty-one years later, on Sept. 11, 2001, the Pentagon became part of the deadliest terror attacks in history.

On 9/11, nearly 3,000 people were killed as 19 al-Qaida hijackers seized control of four jetliners, sending two of the planes into New York’s World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon in Arlington, and the fourth into a field in western Pennsylvania.

And today w

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