Last Monday was our monthly meeting of the Athens, Tennessee S.A.R. (Sons of the American Revolution). I am a member, courtesy of Allen Howard, who fought with George Washington when he was 18 years old. The Howard family came to Virginia in 1635 to find freedom and a better way of life than Britain had to offer.
Our meeting last Monday night was very enlightening. We had an Army colonel give us the blow-by-blow description of the American Airlines B-767 airliner that was hi-jacked by Middle East Arabs and executed a suicide mission into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11, 2001. It was very well done by the Colonel, and the devastation was terrible. The Pentagon has 16-inch walls that prevented massive damage, but it was very bad at any rate.
