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of personal, painful and clear. >> we will commemorate not only the heart break of september 11th, but also the enduring values and resilient spirit of erica. >> bret: nine years later the site where the world trade center stood and the pentagon, where flight 77 slammed into that tragic day, look completely different. for survivors and first responders who were there, and for family membe of the victims the imageand sounds are still vivid. >> another plane just flew into the second tower. now we understand that there is an explosion or has been an explosion in the pentagon. the heart of the military. >> a lot of people had ran out of the building. i'm realizing that it was pretty bad and i needed to go inside and try to help out as best icould. so i went in a there was downed ceiling tiles, lilights,
fixtur fixtures, aot l of smoke, no lights, strong diesel smell, very hard to see. >> every time i smell diesel it brings it back to 9/11. >> i used the word chaos, but really, it was controlled chao situation. i mean, everybody that responded here resnded as best they could. >> the first responders tried to get as many people out as possible. dave's family feared from the start he was in his pentagon office when the plane hit. >> one by one we heard from our different family members who could have been at the ntagon, my dad, my brother, my uncle and kept waiting by ea the phone that day to hear from dave. you're sitting there waiting, you know, waiting for a call, waiting to see him walk up the street and then having to watch these horrible events unfold on tv. i just remembered it as being so sick to my stomach and kind of feeling, how can this be happening. he never walked up the street. >> no.