Petty Officer Second Class Kevin W. Yokum

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Pentagon Group Burial Marker Panel 5 KEVIN W YOKUM IT2 USN

National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial

National September 11 Memorial South Pool · Panel S-72

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salute.nw ↗ Petty Officer Second Class · The Pentagon

1973 2001

Lake Charles, Louisiana The PentagonSeptember 11, 2001

Lived in Washington, D.C.. Worked at U.S. Navy as Petty Officer 2nd Class. Served with The Pentagon.

United States of America

Their life

Information Technician Second Class, United States Navy, at the Pentagon.

He grew up at Lake Charles and finished at LaGrange High School, where his classmates liked him and remembered him at a recent reunion. His father said he liked sports a great deal, basketball particularly - that he would pick out players and work out who would go in the first round of the draft.

He joined the Navy straight out of school, was stationed at San Diego and travelled widely, and came home to Louisiana once or twice a year. He had been at the Pentagon three years and lived nearby in Maryland.

His father said: I am so proud of him, especially since he did serve his country. He was a young man who was strong of character, honest, and one who always wanted to encourage and help other people.

How they died

Killed at the Pentagon on the morning of 11 September 2001, when American Airlines flight 77 struck the western face of the building at 9:37. A hundred and twenty-five people inside and fifty-nine aboard the aircraft were killed.

Survived by

His parents Allen and Beulah.

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.

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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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I came looking for your name and I found it, and I stopped here a while. Rest easy.

S. Vincent Anthony 11 September 2026

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