Pentagon Breaks Ground on $12 Million 9/11 Education Center for 100 Million Americans
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Updated · Fox News · Sep 12
Pentagon Breaks Ground on $12 Million 9/11 Education Center for 100 Million Americans
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 12
Summary
Groundbreaking begins this weekend on a Pentagon 9/11 Visitor Education Center, with the site expected to open by the end of 2029 near the existing memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.
More than 100 million Americans were either not born or are too young to remember Sept. 11, driving the project’s mission to turn a fading living memory into factual public education.
Ten exhibits will tell the Pentagon attack story through the 184 people killed at the Pentagon and on Flight 77, first responders, survivors and military and civilian personnel who aided the wounded.
Joseph Kornhoff said the center is also meant to counter online conspiracy theories and false narratives about 9/11, especially claims surrounding the Pentagon attack.
The project fills a gap at the only one of the three 9/11 attack sites without a dedicated museum or education center, as bipartisan lawmakers also push to review how 9/11 is taught in schools.