Petty Officer Second Class Kris Romeo Bishundat

Inscribed

Pentagon Group Burial Marker Panel 1 KRIS ROMEO BISHUNDAT IT2 USN

National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial

National September 11 Memorial South Pool · Panel S-72

Petty Officer Second Class U.S. Navy

What they earned

Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal

Also kept at

salute.nw ↗ Petty Officer Second Class · Chief of Naval Operations Telecommunications Center, the Pentagon

1977 2001

Georgetown, Guyana The PentagonSeptember 11, 2001

Lived in Waldorf, Maryland. Worked at U.S. Navy as IT2. Served with Chief of Naval Operations Telecommunications Center, the Pentagon.

United States of America

Their life

Information Technician Second Class, United States Navy. Born in Georgetown, Guyana, the eldest of three, and at home in Waldorf, Maryland from the age of two. Known to everybody as Romeo.

He finished at Thomas Stone High School in 1995 and enlisted the day before his eighteenth birthday. After boot camp and service school he served a year aboard the Yorktown, then transferred to the Shreveport, where his division officer said he quickly established himself as one of the finest sailors ever to walk her decks.

Aboard her he became the ship's webmaster and spent countless hours on distance learning and computer access for the crew. He reported to the Chief of Naval Operations Telecommunications Center at the Pentagon in May 2001 and had already qualified in three watch stations.

On the morning of the eleventh he had reported for work as ordered, pleased that the voice communications office had just moved into the newly renovated wing.

The Shreveport has since established the Kris Bishundat Learning Media Resource Center aboard her - nine terminals, teaching materials and a small library for seven hundred sailors and marines.

Survived by

His father Bhola, his mother Basmattie, and his sisters Danita and Devita.

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.

Everyone taken by September 11, 2001 →

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