Staff Sergeant Maudlyn A White

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Pentagon Group Burial Marker Panel 5 MAUDLYN A WHITE SSG USA

National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial

National September 11 Memorial South Pool · Panel S-74 Maudlyn A. White

Staff Sergeant U.S. Army

What she earned

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1963 2001

Montserrat, Montserrat The PentagonSeptember 11, 2001

Lived in Arlington, Virginia. Worked at U.S. Army.

United States of America

Her life

Staff Sergeant, United States Army, in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Programs.

She was born on Montserrat and moved to St Croix at twelve, and called it home. She finished at St Croix Central High School in 1982 and went to Bennett College in North Carolina, and enlisted in July 1985 to take advantage of the Army College Fund. She kept at her education throughout and took a degree in computer information technology at Strayer.

She trained at Fort Jackson as an administrative specialist and served two overseas tours, at Frankfurt and at Camp Casey in Korea, and in Chicago and Alexandria.

She ran, read, bowled, and spent her time with her daughter Vielka, who was born in February 1995. Her family say Vielka was her life - daughter, best friend and playmate at once.

She was strong, determined, independent and strong-willed, and gave everyone she met her best.

Survived by

Her daughter Vielka and her mother Priscilla Irish.

The Pentagon

September 11, 2001

American Airlines flight 77 struck the western face of the Pentagon at 9:37. A hundred and twenty-five people inside the building were killed, and fifty-nine aboard the aircraft.

They were military and civilian alike - officers, analysts, budget staff, contractors, a group of schoolchildren and their teachers travelling on a National Geographic trip. No police officer died here.

The nation afterwards set aside Arlington's own rules of eligibility and buried the civilian dead in national ground, together with the remains that could not be identified, in Section 64. It had decided that on this day the distinction did not apply.

Everyone taken by The Pentagon →

September 11, 2001

On a clear Tuesday morning, four airliners were taken. Two were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one into the western face of the Pentagon, and one came down in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after the passengers and crew went forward at the cockpit door.

Two thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven people were killed. Three hundred and forty-three were firefighters of the New York City Fire Department. Seventy-one were law enforcement officers. Eight were paramedics and emergency medical technicians. One hundred and twenty-five died at the Pentagon, military and civilian together. The rest - some two thousand four hundred of them - had gone to work, or boarded a plane, and belonged to no service at all.

None of them began that morning as heroes. A great many of them ended it as heroes: men and women who carried strangers down stairwells, who stayed with people who could not walk, who held a door, who went back up. Four men on a flight over Pennsylvania, who had thirty minutes of telephone calls and knew what had already happened, decided where their aircraft would come down.

At Arlington, the nation set aside its own rules of eligibility and buried the Pentagon's civilian dead in national ground. It had decided that on this day the distinction did not apply.

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