Tamara C. Thurman

Inscribed

National September 11 Memorial South Pool · Panel S-74

Panel S-74, South Pool, National September 11 Memorial Panel S-74, South Pool, National September 11 Memorial

Sergeant U.S. Army

What they earned

Also kept at

salute.nw ↗ Sergeant ยท Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, the Pentagon

In memory of

Tamara C. Thurman

1976 – 2001

From
Alabama
Killed that day
September 11, 2001, aged 25

Sergeant, United States Army, an assistant in the office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel.

She enlisted out of high school and served in Bosnia, Korea and Germany. She was twenty-five, and she loved basketball and music.

Her mother, talking about her afterwards, kept slipping between tenses. She was such a sweet - is such a sweet girl. I was very proud of her. I am very proud of her.

In the house at Brewton where she grew up, her family kept a vigil: candles lit inside, a flag outside.

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

Her mother Saundra Woolen.

What people have said 1

We never met, but I have read your name and I will not forget it.

S. Vincent Anthony 11 September 2026