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From YouTube: Arlington Remembers September 11th 2001
Description
James Schwartz retells his account of 9/11 as the incident commander during the response to the Pentagon.
A
A
I
turned
on
the
television
of
my
office
and
saw
the
silhouette
of
the
airplane
in
the
North
Tower
and
immediately
recognized
it
as
an
intentional
event
as
an
intentional
act.
I
soon
after
got
a
phone
call
from
our
Hertz
the
communication
center,
the
director
Steve
Sally
and
asked
him
at
the
time
to
put
a
radio
report
out
for
the
fire
department
to
get
all
of
our
resources
back
in
there
and
their
normal
response.
A
C
B
A
Radio
report
to
notify
the
FBI
was
also
very
illustrative
of
the
way
we
had
begun
developing
relationships
with
some
of
our
non-traditional
partners,
the
FBI
being
one
of
them.
In
fact,
on
September
8th,
the
FBI
had
participated
in
regional
exercise
that
was
conducted
in
Fairfax
County.
The
exercise
whistle
was
about
a
chemical
event
that
all
of
the
same
players
that
responded
to
the
Pentagon
participated
in
that
exercise.
Three
days
before.
A
My
response
to
the
Pentagon
began
when,
when
these
radio
reports
began
to
come
in,
I
was
in
the
courthouse
Plaza
building
and
made
an
immediate
beeline
for
the
Pentagon,
where
I
met
Battalion
Chief
Bob
Cornwell,
who
had
arrived
a
few
minutes
before
Bob
was
such
a
trusted
and
almost
an
iconic
figure
in
the
fire
department
and
I
knew
he
was
the
one
that
I
first
wanted
to
lead.
Our
people
into
the
Pentagon.
A
A
Some
of
the
most
heroic
efforts
performed
that
day
made
by
people
who
worked
in
the
Pentagon,
both
military
and
civilian,
who
recognized
that
some
of
their
comrades,
some
of
their.
You
know
the
people
that
they
worked
with
we're
not
getting
out
of
the
building
or
needed
assistance
to
get
out
of
the
building,
and
so
many
were
going
in
and
out
to
try
and
assist
in
that
effort.
A
A
Did
not
go
home
until
10:00
p.m.
on
September,
12th
and
I
had
not
slept
for
the
entire
I
hadn't
slept
since
I
got
up
on
the
morning
of
September
11
I.
Remember
waking
up,
I
think
it
was
on
the
morning
of
September
13
and
that
I
gotten
into
routine
into
a
routine
of
sleeping
until
about
4:00
a.m.
going
home
around
10:00,
sleeping
until
about
4:00
getting
up
in
the
morning,
driving
back
to
the
Pentagon,
walking
the
camp
and
then
checking
in
a
command
and
taking
over
from
my
12-hour
work
period
and
I.
A
Remember
getting
in
the
car
I
think
it
was
on
the
morning
of
September
13th.
It
might've
been
the
14th
and
turning
on
the
radio
and
hearing
on
the
news
that
major
league
baseball
had
decided,
they
were
gonna
start
playing
games
again
that
weekend
and
I
thought
at
listening
to
that.
I
was
so
completely
dislocated
from
what
was
going
on
in
the
rest
of
the
world.