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On 11 September 2001, American Airlines Flight 77, one of four airliners hijacked by terrorists that day, slammed into the southwest section of the Pentagon (a sprawling defense office complex in Washington, D.C.) killing 189 people. Half of the building remains closed because of smoke and structural damage. As search-and-rescue workers scoured the damaged building over the next few days, they encountered grisly scenes: Williams, the search-and-rescue specialist quoted in this USA Today article, also described scenes both heart-rending and surprising: A book did remain relatively unscathed in an office in a heavily-damaged section of the Pentagon, but the USA Today account was inaccurate, a single-source, second-hand anecdote (only one person was quoted, and he himself did not see the book in question) based on wishful thinking. Other on-scene news crews such as CNN reported that the book was a dictionary, as verified for us by a reader who went back and reviewed the tape of that day's news: Additionally, an acquaintance of ours who works in Pentagon security had access to the area in question and shared with us his own detailed photographs of the office containing the book; they too demonstrated to us that the book was indeed a dictionary, not a Bible. In February 2002, the New York Post reported that a photographer had found a single page from a Bible under the rubble of the World Trade Center:
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