In honor of Memorial Day at the end of the month the Insider Staff is putting out the call for veterans and those with military background to submit essay's. We put out the call in a previously published article with some ideas and plans for this project. http://www.middletowninsider.
We would be honored to hear from you.The Middletown Insider staff thanks you for your sacrifice!
Below is a submission from resident Edward Dypa who has been very involved with the senior center construction at Eckersley Hall and with both local senior and veteran groups. The original author of this submission sent in by Dypa is unknown.
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Subject: Our Military... Did Anyone Know This????
A chaplain, who happened to be assigned to the Pentagon, told of an incident that happened right after Flight 77 hit the Pentagon on 9/11.
A daycare facility inside the Pentagon had many children, including infants who were in heavy cribs. The daycare supervisor, looking at all the children they needed to evacuate, was in a panic over what they could do. There were many children, mostly toddlers, as well as the infants that would need to be taken out with the cribs.
There was no time to try to bundle them into carriers and strollers. Just then a young Marine came running into the center and asked what they needed. After hearing what the center director wastrying to do, he ran back out into the hallway and disappeared. The director thought, "Well, here we are, on our own."
About 2 minutes later, that Marine returned with 40 other Marines in tow. Each of them grabbed a crib with a child, and the rest started gathering up toddlers. The director and her staff then helped them take all the children out of the center and down toward the park near the Potomac.
