He watched a plane hit the Pentagon on 9/11. Then he braved flames and smoke to save lives

[rangerrebew]

He watched a plane hit the Pentagon on 9/11. Then he braved flames and smoke to save lives

    Jeff Schogol
    1 hour ago

Army Capt. Lincoln Leibner was standing roughly 100 yards from where American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.

“It was powered in,” Leibner would tell then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld later that day. “It was flown in; no one grabbed the stick at the last moment and pushed it down or anything. It was full throttle.”

Leibner, who would go on to become a lieutenant colonel, was one of the first rescuers on the scene and he helped pull several people trapped inside the Pentagon to safety. His story is included in “Then Came the Fire,” an oral history of soldiers’ accounts of the attack on the Pentagon that was published by the U.S. Army Center of Military History in 2011.

https://taskandpurpose.com/unsung-heroes/army-captain-pentagon-september-11-attack

[GrouchoTex]

Another hero, and we can use all we can find.