Life Goes On, but Memories Remain Fresh for Survivors

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When the constant rewind of the airplanes slamming into buildings, fireballs and faces stricken with grief became overwhelming, most of the world could at least turn off the TV or put down a newspaper. But for those directly affected by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, those images remain as constant and vivid as the warm, sunny day on which they occurred.

Over the past 10 years, and most recently last month, The Washington Times has been invited into the homes and the lives of five such people connected to the attacks on the Pentagon.

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Life Goes On, but Memories Remain Fresh for Survivors

An ordinary life

As the sun set across central Pennsylvania one recent August evening, Daniel C. Pfeilstucker Jr. watched his two youngest children scramble among the waist-high tomato plants in his garden.

It's an ordinary scene for many people, but for Mr. Pfeilstucker, it's another reminder of what might not have been had he died when American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon at 9:40 a.m.

"It's always in the back of my mind," he said. "It could have been me. It could have been the alternative."

Seconds before the attack, Mr. Pfeils...

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