On this episode of Our American Stories Tony Dolan was inside the Pentagon when American Airlines Flight struck on September In the years that followed he met young servicemen returning from Iraq and Afghanistan without arms or legs some of them determined to recover so they could rejoin their units He watched generals address wounded enlisted men as sir and met families carrying losses so profound that even a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer struggled to find the right words The late Dolan reflects on the wounded warriors fallen servicemen and military families he encountered after Originally published in The Wall Street
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