Welcome

The Verizon Foundation welcomes those viewers who had the opportunity to see A Nation Remembers. We are proud to be part of such an outstanding project. If you have not had a chance to view this documentary, visit the Pentagon Memorial Fund for highlights from the show and check your local listings for broadcast dates and times. The program will air nationwide through September 2010.

Verizon Foundation Partners with Pentagon Memorial Fund

A Nation Remembers: The official documentary of the Pentagon Memorial, hosted by Gary Sinise, featuring interviews with surviving family members and high ranking American leaders such as President Bush, Vice President Cheney, General Richard Myers, and Former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld.

Working closely in partnership with Verizon Foundation and Verizon Thinkfinity Partner National Geographic, the Pentagon Memorial Fund will launch a new Pentagon Memorial Web site in the Spring of 2010. The new site will provide teachers, school groups, parents, families and friends with free online resources that will teach them about the memorial and its significance in our nation's history. These online resources will cover the history, design and construction of the memorial.

Visiting the memorial in person is not always an option, so the new website will also include a robust virtual tour of the memorial through an interactive three-dimensional (3D) experience. Supporting interactive and exceptional educational resources is core to Verizon Foundation's mission to leverage technology and our partnerships with leading education organizations like National Geographic to improve teaching and learning. The online resources developed in this project will be integrated into Verizon Thinkfinity.

The Memorial

On September 11, 2001, terrorists crashed Flight 77 into the Pentagon, killing the 59 passengers on board the aircraft and 125 military and civilian personnel who were working inside the Pentagon. Shortly after the attack, the United States Congress authorized the Secretary of Defense to create a permanent memorial on the grounds of the Pentagon.

The Pentagon Memorial Park consists of 184 memorial units, each of which are dedicated to an individual victim by its unique placement within the collective field. The field is organized as a timeline of the victims' ages, spanning from the youngest, three-year-old Dana Falkenberg, to the oldest, 71-year-old John D. Yamnicky. Each memorial unit is located on its respective age line—thin metal strips that cross the memorial park. This ordering develops a powerful understanding of the broad range of the lives lost, from the youngest child to the oldest adult.
Read more about the memorial or view it through a 360-degree tour.

Related Verizon Thinkfinity Resources

Use the strategies described in these classroom activities and lessons to reflect upon September 11, 2001 and Patriot Day.

September 11: Bearing Witness to History
Smithsonian's National Museum of American History documented the events of September 11 in the National Collection, available in this interactive online exhibit.

The Post 9/11 Landscape Podcast
This episode of ReadWriteThink's series, "Text Messages: Recommendations for Adolescent Readers", offers recommendations and reviews of books exploring the political and cultural landscape of our post-9/11 world. Tune in to hear how graphic novels place the events of 9/11 in historical context, how war stories put a human face on the costs of military conflict, and how teens can play a part in working for a better world.

Patriot Day Activity
Even though this day marks the anniversary of a huge disaster, it is called Patriot Day. How does this label change our perceptions about the events of September 11, 2001?

Marketplace: Oil is a Slippery Business Lesson
Following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, demand for fuel dropped significantly, causing a decrease in the price of oil and oil-related products. OPEC is generally seen as the primary institution that controls oil prices. In this lesson and the related interactive activity students get an overview of the history and function of this institution.