Lieutenant Colonel Karl William Teepe

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Pentagon Group Burial Marker Panel 5 KARL W TEEPE LTC USA Ret

National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial

National September 11 Memorial South Pool · Panel S-71 Karl W. Teepe

Lieutenant Colonel U.S. Army

What he earned

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salute.nw ↗ Lieutenant Colonel · United States Army - and afterwards the Defense Intelligence Agency

1943 2001

St. Louis, Missouri The PentagonSeptember 11, 2001

Lived in Centreville, Virginia. Worked at Defense Intelligence Agency as LTC US Army Retired. Served with United States Army - and afterwards the Defense Intelligence Agency.

United States of America

His life

Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army, retired - and from 1991 a financial resources manager at the Defense Intelligence Agency.

He grew up in Jennings and was on the golf team at Riverview Gardens High School. He took his degree at Illinois in 1967 and went on active duty as an air defence artillery officer, left after just under two years, and came back in April 1971 for more than twenty more. He instructed ROTC at Missouri in the mid-seventies and took an MBA there in 1975, went through Command and General Staff College, and served in Germany and South Korea. He retired on the first of September 1991 with more than twenty-two years' active duty, and joined the DIA immediately.

He married Donna in June 1967; their children Wendy and Adam both went to William and Mary. Anyone who knew him could see his family was the thing that mattered most.

He liked the Smithsonian and the Mall, and would take the Metro over from the Pentagon at lunchtime just to get away and look at it. He always had a project on at home and was eager to show his daughter and her husband how it was coming.

Survived by

His wife Donna, his son Adam, his daughter Wendy and her husband Derek, his mother Ruth, and his brother Kenneth.

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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