Inscribed
National September 11 Memorial South Pool · Panel S-73
Commander U.S. Navy
Also kept at
salute.nw ↗ Commander · Navy Command Center, the PentagonIn memory of
William H. Donovan
1964 – 2001
- Killed that day
- September 11, 2001, aged 37
- Held on
- September 11, 2001 · The Pentagon
Commander, United States Navy, of the Navy Command Center, and a graduate of the Naval Academy in the class of 1986.
A classmate wrote a poem for him after, in his voice, which his family have kept: I'm still here, in the laughter of the children, in the candle burning bright; in the passing of the seasons, and the change from day to night.
He was thirty-seven.
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.