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The Phoenix Project: Rising from the Pentagon's Ashes

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The smoke was so thick in the building that anyone trying to get out had to navigate by sound.

Firefighters work to slow the spread of the Pentagon fire.

Rich Bartram was in Ft. Worth, Tex

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Immediately after the firefighters had the building under control, the PenRen program manager, Lee Evey, started to plan the rebuilding of the Pentagon.

With smoke still coming from the damaged sec

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Masons like Isaac Peterson and Jeff White from Masonry Arts and others from R. Bratti & Associates, Alexandria, Va., started placing the limestone on March 4.

Having cut the stone from 60-year-old

The renovation project worked within the existing exterior walls. Once the interior walls were removed, Masonry Arts found the evidence of the rapid construction the building had undergone in 1942.



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