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By Sutton Parker, Gaylord News

Twenty-five years ago Friday, American Airlines flight 77 was hijacked and flown into the Pentagon. More than two decades later, family members of those who were killed in the attack are reflecting on how that day changed their lives forever.

Navy ET1 Brian Moss, a Cherokee Nation citizen and one of the 9/11 victims at the Pentagon, grew up in Sperry, a town 15 miles north of Tulsa with just over 1,000 residents.

Moss joined the Navy in 1990 and was later stationed in Adak, Alaska, where he met his wife, Mary Lou Moss.

The two then moved to Washington, where he worked in the U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard before joining the Chief of Naval Operations Office at the Pentagon in 2001.

“He was just an amazing man, everyone that knew him knew how good of a sailor he was, he would do anything for anybody,” Mary Lou Moss said.

Moss said that prior to Sept. 11, her husband had only been working at the Pentagon for a little over a month.

Like many, she said the morning of Sept. 11 felt like any other.

“Brian left the house before I did because he had to be at the Pentagon and traffic’s, you know, horrendous. Getting in and out of there,” Moss said.

She said she got the kids ready for school and then headed to work.

“I worked for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency at the time. So I was picking up a co-worker on my way to work because he had dropped his vehicle off for repairs and was on the toll or on the Beltway driving to work,” she said.

Moss said she and her co-worker heard on the car radio that a plane had hit the World Trade Center.

“We were just thinking it was like a little fluke with a Cessna, like a one-seater. And then we got a little closer to work, and then we heard about the second one. We looked at each other like, Holy shit, something’s going on,” she said. 

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