Inscribed
National September 11 Memorial South Pool · Panel S-74
Lieutenant Colonel U.S. Army
Also kept at
salute.nw ↗ Lieutenant Colonel · Operations Research and Systems Analysis, the PentagonIn memory of
Jerry D. Dickerson
2001
- From
- Mississippi
- Killed that day
- September 11, 2001, aged 41
- Held on
- September 11, 2001 · The Pentagon
Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army, working in operations research and systems analysis at the Pentagon.
He was born in Mississippi, read economics at Mississippi State and took a master's in engineering at Texas A&M. He began in ROTC, served in the National Guard and joined the Army in 1983.
A friend of many years said that if there were a definition of Army values in the dictionary his picture would sit beside it, and that for him it was selfless service - he cared more for others than for himself. Family and country came first.
He was forty-one and lived at Springfield with his wife and their two children.
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 wife Page and their children Beth and Will.