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Rank and race disappeared on September 11, 2001, at the Pentagon and at Ground Zero in New York in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks.
The fire chief in charge of the recovery process at the Pentagon made an announcement around 4 o’clock p.m.
“’We need volunteers to put on masks and gloves and be willing to do a sweep through the Pentagon. Any volunteers?’ People ran to get a place in line,” recalled Charlie Baldwin, Air Force deputy chief of chaplains at the time.
