Black Excellence: Lt. Col. Marilyn Wills
https://www.aarp.org/veterans/army-officer-pentagon-911
“In the heat of a tragic situation your world gets a lot smaller. You focus on your immediate environment and the comrades around you. You are in a foxhole. It was an honor to be in the foxhole with Marilyn Wills.”
Lt. Col. Marilyn Wills was delivering a presentation to a dozen or so coworkers during a routine Tuesday meeting when she was flung across the table they were gathered around as a fireball ripped through the ceiling of conference room 2E487.
American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757-200 airliner, had just struck the west side of the Pentagon at 530 mph, almost directly below the second-floor conference room. It was September 11, 2001, and America was under attack.