VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — While many of us watched the attacks of 9/11 unfold on television, two members of Virginia Task Force 2 saw the wreckage up close.

Capts. Scott Prentice and Jim Ingledue got the call shortly after the attacks happened and were on their way to New York when they were rerouted to the Pentagon. They arrived there the morning of Sept. 12, just in time to watch history, literally, unfold.

"We all lined up," Ingledue said. "And it was at that moment when they dropped that big flag down on the side of the Pentagon."

Prentice and his group were in charge of fortifying the building, making sure not one more beam fell to the ground.

"We didn't want anyone to get any more satisfaction out of what they'd already done to us, Prentice said. "And we were to keep that Pent

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