| Pentagon Tragedy the Real Victims of 9-11 Invented by Brooke aka Vegas Babe in a chat room telling the KWChatters that 'her cousin" died in the Pentagon That was a lie first told in the beginning of using a chat room to make new friends. Â Â Marsha Dianah Ratchford, 34, Prichard, Alabama
information systems technician first class, U.S. Navy
Reported missing, Pentagon, at/in building Rodney Ratchford tries to talk about his wife in the present tense. Amid the devastation at the Pentagon, where Marsha D. Ratchford worked for the Navy as an information technician, her husband has not given up hope. It's what she would have wanted. "We still got the faith. We're still praying every day," said Rodney Ratchford, 38. "We have our up days, our down days . . . but we haven't lost faith, and we never will." Marsha Ratchford, 34, is listed among the missing at the Pentagon after a hijacked American Airlines jet crashed into the building Sept. 11. She was as strong-willed as her husband, a friendly, quiet woman born in Detroit and raised in a large family in Mobile, Ala. She joined the Navy about 15 years ago, and one day at a training school in San Diego, she happened to exchange glances in the gym with her future husband. "She had an awesome smile," remembered Rodney Ratchford, who served as a machinist's mate in the Navy. They married soon after in Alabama, in May 1988. She had many loves in her life -- working with computers, the challenge of handling crucial military messages at the Navy Command Center in the Pentagon. But few equaled her devotion as a mother. The Ratchfords have three children -- an 11-year-old son, an 8-year-old daughter and an 18-month-old daughter. "She was a mother from her heart," said Rodney Ratchford, who now works as a supervisor for a national security company. On the morning of Sept. 11, Marsha Ratchford called her husband to tell him about the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. "She told me that the two planes had just hit the towers," he said. "She told me, 'I love you,' and, 'Have a nice day,' and, 'I'll call you later.' That was the last I heard from her." Since then, Rodney Ratchford has turned to his faith and family for support, including the close-knit community drawn even closer together at Bolling Air Force Base, where he and his family live. "Everybody loved her as much as I did," he said. His children have been asking questions, searching for simple explanations to complex situations as only children can. The kids ask the hardest question of all: Why? He believes that only God can provide the answer, and that only God can keep his hope intact. "We're not," he said, "going to give up." Spc. Craig Amundson, 28, Fort Belvoir, Virginia multimedia illustrator for deputy chief of staff of personnel, U.S. Army
Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building John J. Chada, 55, Manassas, Virginia civilian employee, U.S. Army
Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Melissa Rose Barnes, 27, Redlands, California yeoman second class, U.S. Navy
Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building (Retired) Master Sgt. Max Beilke, 69, Laurel, Maryland civilian employee, U.S. Army
Reported missing, Pentagon, at/in building Kris Romeo Bishundat, 23, Waldorf, Maryland information systems technician second class, U.S. Navy Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Carrie Blagburn, 48, Temple Hills, Maryland civilian budget analyst, U.S. Army
Reported missing, Pentagon, at/in building Lt. Col. Canfield D. Boone, 54, Clifton, Virginia U.S. Army
Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Donna Bowen, 42
Pentagon communications representative, Verizon Communications
Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Allen Boyle, 30, Fredericksburg, Virginia Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Christopher Lee Burford, 23, Hubert, N.C. electronics technician third class, U.S. Navy
Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Daniel Martin Caballero, 21, Houston, Texas electronics technician third class, U.S. Navy
Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Sgt. First Class Jose Calderon, 44, Puerto Rico U.S. Army
Reported missing, Pentagon, at/in building Angelene C. Carter, 51, Forrestville, Maryland accountant, U.S. Army
Reported missing, Pentagon, at/in building Sharon Carver, 38, Waldorf, Maryland civilian employee, U.S. Army
Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Rosa Maria (Rosemary) Chapa, 64, Springfield, Virginia civilian employee, Defense Intelligence Agency Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Julian Cooper, 39, Springdale, Maryland Navy contractor
Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Lt. Cmdr. Eric Allen Cranford, 32, Drexel, North Carolina
U.S. Navy Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Ada Davis, 57, Camp Springs, Maryland civilian employee, U.S. Army
Reported missing, Pentagon, at/in building Capt. Gerald Francis Deconto, 44, Sandwich, Massachusetts director of current operations and plans, U.S. Navy Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Lt. Col. Jerry Don Dickerson, 41, Durant, Mississippi U.S. Army
Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Johnnie Doctor, 32, Jacksonville, Florida information systems technician first class, U.S. Navy
Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Capt. Robert Edward Dolan, 43, Florham Park, New Jersey head of strategy and concepts branch, U.S. Navy Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Cmdr. William Howard Donovan, 37, Nunda, New York U.S. Navy
Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Cmdr. Patrick S. Dunn, 39, Fords, New Jersey surface warfare officer, U.S. Navy
Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Edward Thomas Earhart, 26, Salt Lick, Kentucky aerographer's mate first class, U.S. Navy
Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Lt. Cmdr. Robert Randolph Elseth, 37, Vestal, New York U.S. Navy
Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Jamie Lynn Fallon, 23, Woodbridge, Virginia storekeeper third class, U.S. Navy
Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Martha Reszke, 36, Stafford, Virginia
budget analyst, U.S. Army
Reported missing, Pentagon, at/in building Cecelia E. Richard, 41, Fort Washington, Maryland
accounting technician, U.S. Army
Reported missing, Pentagon, at/in building Edward V. Rowenhorst, 32, Lake Ridge, Virginia
civilian employee, U.S. Army
Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Judy Rowlett, 44, Woodbridge, Virginia
civilian employee, U.S. Army
Reported missing, Pentagon, at/in building Robert E. Russell, 52, Oxon Hill, Maryland
civilian budgetary supervisor, U.S. Army
Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building William R. Ruth, 57, Maryland
Chief Warrant Officer 4th Class, U.S. Army
Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Charles E. Sabin, 54, Burke, Virginia
civilian employee, Defense Department
Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building Marjorie C. Salamone, 53, Springfield, Virginia
budget program analyst, U.S. Army
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