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>> reporter: then... ( sirens ) ( coughing ) >> we had a mission that was going out that morning, and i just had to call the guys and say, "hey, you guys shut down. all flights in the u.s. are canceled. you need to just get in here." >> reporter: scott abruptly halted drills on 9-11-2001, and his brother called. >> and he just said, matter of factually, like, mom and the flaggs were on flight 77, and they're all dead. >> reporter: barbara was flying home with family friends, the flaggs, on the pentagon plane. terror begot war. scott deployed four times post-9/11. >> i just can't believe it's b...

Day, much like today. then, a moment of silence for the lives lost. >> you have gone too soon, but the memory of you will forever be in our hearts. >> reporter: many of the family members reading the names of the victims are children who grew up without knowing their loved ones. >> we will meet again one day, and it will be nothing but tears of joy when we do. i love you dad. we all do. >> reporter: others urged the nation to come together and embrace the spirit that swept over the country after the attack. >> that's what mattered. it was the response, and we can get there, and that we value o...

Know his full story, but he was an elite para-rescueman with seal team six, and the day after 9/11 he deployed to afghanistan. he escorted hamid karzai and saved his life as he entered kabul after the taliban fell. for people hike that who are still serving, this is personal. and the passion that you heard, the pain, the anger that you heard in the speeches behind me, that is reel. and then -- that is real. and then there are the survivors. i spoke to family members of people like chad keller who was a young up and coming, amazing engineer who worked on satellites. he died at the age of 29 onb...

So many here today. >> our daily lives were paid for with the blood of the fallen on this place at 9:37 on september 11th, 2001. those ideas were and still are hated by our enemies, the fascists, the nazis, al-qaeda, isis, the taliban, authoritarian dictators and tyrants of all kinds. >> at dawn this morning, here at the pentagon, a giant american flag unfurled over the exact spot where the plane hit. 184 people killed, 59 on board american airlines flight 77, which took off from dulles airport for los angeles at 8:20 a.m. five hijackers overtook the cockpit turning this commercial jet into a ...

Hits the pentagon, it goes through three outer rings of the five-ring pentagon. 189 people are killed there including those onboard flight 77. what's striking is overall 2,997 people died on 9/11. but we forget that there were 25,000 people who were injured. and, you know, this day for the families is the most sering, but there are many people dealing with the images that they saw. you know, bill, your special the lost calls of 9/11 with the people who saw the people jumping from the building, and there are images like that from the pentagon. and at that time when the pentagon was hit, i was o...