Chief Petty Officer Donald Mcarthur Young

Inscribed

Pentagon Group Burial Marker Panel 5 DONALD M YOUNG ITC USN

National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial

National September 11 Memorial South Pool · Panel S-72 Donald McArthur Young

Chief Petty Officer U.S. Navy

What he earned

Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal

Also kept at

salute.nw ↗ Chief Petty Officer · Office of the Chief of Naval Operations

1959 2001

Roanoke, Virginia The PentagonSeptember 11, 2001

Lived in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Worked at U.S. Navy as ITC. Served with Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

United States of America

His life

Information Systems Technician Chief, United States Navy - a veteran of the Gulf War, on special detail at the Pentagon. He was a week short of his forty-second birthday.

He went to William Fleming High School in Roanoke, where he played football, and had a scholarship to North Carolina A&T before he enlisted. His old coach said: I know the efforts Donald put into his academics and his athletics is the same effort he put into his life as a military man.

He was Atlantic Fleet Sailor of the Year, and qualified as both an enlisted surface warfare specialist and an enlisted aviation warfare specialist.

His family say he was quiet and compassionate, that he put the safety and wellbeing of others before his own, and that whenever his mother was ill he was there looking after her. He tinkered with his computer, watched films and played sport.

He was devoted to his wife Felicia for fourteen years; she bore his long absences at sea and understood why he went.

He is a direct descendant of the Hairstons.

Survived by

His wife Felicia, his brother Edward, his sisters Addrene, Loretta, Alice, Valerie and Deborah, and his goddaughter Damiani.

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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