1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,880 My name is Danielle Faul I'm a rising fourth year  here at the University of Virginia. I'm an air   2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:10,880 force cadet so i'll be commissioning in about 10  months from now. My dad was an E5 in the navy at   3 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:16,400 the time and it was just a typical day he worked  in the West Wing of the Pentagon which before 9/11   4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:21,360 was this another part of the pentagon. Right at  nine o'clock he was told that he was going to have   5 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:26,720 a meeting with a new potential one-star admiral  that had just started working there. He is known   6 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:31,760 in our family for getting his cups of coffees  at around 9:00 a.m. He knew he had to go get   7 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:37,520 his 9 a.m coffee so he walks down the hall then  he goes back to his office grabs his portfolio   8 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:41,200 that he was going to go show his one-star  admiral that he was about to start working for.   9 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:48,480 He said that he got in the office right at about  9:30 and right at 9:37 that's when he fell to the   10 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:54,480 ground and blacked out for a couple of minutes  and gasoline was all he could smell in the air.   11 00:00:54,480 --> 00:01:01,200 There's people screaming and he lost part of his  hearing, no one knew that an airplane had hit,   12 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:07,440 but he knew he smelled gasoline. So, super  confused and dazed he tried to go down the hall to   13 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:13,920 go see where his men were, he goes down the hall  and people are literally burning to death, and his   14 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:19,840 admiral grabs him and they can't do anything about  it because at that point it's more fallen people.   15 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:24,720 It took him about 10 minutes to actually exit the  West Wing because there were so many people just   16 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:30,720 panicking a lot of people froze and couldn't even  move. They ran out of the building and media was   17 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:36,880 already there and police were there, he did suffer  some burns, but he got out alive thankfully.   18 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:42,800 It definitely changed me in a way knowing that my  father almost died that day and it motivated and   19 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:47,760 me more of that thought, oh am I actually willing  to serve my country against people like this,   20 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:53,760 and it definitely sparked a flame in me that I  never had before. It's important to take time 20   21 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:59,120 years later this because even though you might not  know someone that died that day whether it was the   22 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:04,480 pentagon or world trade center we have to remember  all the thousands of family members that are being   23 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:10,480 affected it's remembering those, that really all  those people that were brave that day on all three   24 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:16,480 of those flights and all the people that had their  lives lost that day. We're really just giving back   25 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:22,080 a moment to remember them and everyone that was  affected whether they survived or didn't survive   26 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:25,520 is just a way of the saying thank you for  your bravery and thank you for all you do.