What This Story Is About
- A Knoxville woman, Dian Hall, recalls her firsthand experience working near the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, 25 years after the attacks.
Why It Matters
- 9/11 was a national tragedy that affected millions of people, and Hall’s story offers a personal and local lens through her experience of that tragedy.
For Context
- Hall was a lieutenant colonel at the National Guard Bureau in Washington, D.C., working across from the Pentagon when it was struck, and later retired in Knoxville in 2012.
Catch Up
- On 9/11, Hall fled her building amid the attacks, raced to reach her five-month-old son, and returned to work the next day as the Pentagon still burned.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) – Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, a Knoxville woman says the memories of that day have not faded.
Dian Hall was a lieutenant colonel working at the National Guard Bureau in Washington, D.C., across the interstate from the Pentagon, when the attacks happened.
“It was almost like something out of a movie… everybody’s eyes were just like, oh my gosh, what’s happening?” Hall said.
Inside the meeting
Hall said she was in a meeting that morning when someone came in with news of the first plane.
“We were in a meeting, and there was, you know, someone walked in and said, a plane hit the World Trade Center. We were like, wow,” Hall said…