William H. Donovan

Commander

1964 – 2001

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Life Keepsakes Service Also Remembered Memorials In Our Keeping

Commander William H. Donovan served the Navy Command Center, the Pentagon for 15 years. William was 37 years old.

How They Died

Manner Homicide

Cause Multiple traumatic injuries

Place Virginia

What Happened

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.

Biography

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.

Keepsakes

Service Record

U.S. Navy

Navy Command Center, the Pentagon

Commander

1986 – 2001

Memorials

National September 11 Memorial Panel 73W · Line 1 cut as William H. Donovan

Also Remembered

September 11, 2001 — The Pentagon

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In Our Keeping

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