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The Pentagon 33


number of pages of the official Pentagon tour guide script


16


months to complete original building


$83 MILLION cost of the original building in dollars


$5 BILLION total cost of Phoenix Project


131 stairways


19 7,754 escalators windows Guided Tours


are free and conducted Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information or to book a tour, visit http://pentagontours .osd.mil/tour-selection.jsp.


Sources: http://pentagontours.osd.mil/facts.jsp; www.history.com/topics/pentagon; www.infoplease.com/spot/pentagon1.html


8,770 parking spaces 200


4,200


by theNumbers 1 million


clocks emails sent daily 200,000 phone calls a day The 26,000


100,000 miles of telephone cable


employees daily 284 restrooms


Pentagon boasts medical and dental facilities, a post office, a bank, credit unions, a pharmacy, gift and floral shops, a DMV customer service center, a fitness facility, and 17 different types of food vendors.


acres of lawn miles of corridors 17.5 6.5 million


gross floor area in square feet


921 length of each outside wall in feet


a month. In less than a single year, they managed to erase virtually all signs of the attack, save the memo- ries of those left behind. Near the point of impact on the


fi rst-fl oor E ring, a memorial room commemorates those who died that day. “In the center of the room is a book with a page and picture for each of the 184 victims,” Mahan


INFOGRAPHIC: MARY NEWMAN


notes, while a nearby chapel off ers a quiet space for contemplation. Outside stands a park with 184 gran- ite-inlaid, stainless steel benches arching over illuminated pools of water, one for each person who died in the attack. For an ostensibly temporary build-


ing, the Pentagon has demonstrated remarkable longevity and resilience.


It is now one of the most famous land- marks in the world. Its construction, although rushed, has stood the test of time, and there’s little doubt it still will host America’s military command at the dawn of the next century.


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— Mark Cantrell is a freelance writer based in North Carolina. His last feature article for Military Offi cer was “Pro or No,” August 2015.


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Height of building in feet:


77


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