The Pentagon (my report)

The Pentagon

The Pentagon is the HQ of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington Virginia. It was designed by a Swedish American named, George Bergstrom, and built by John McShain. It was built in 1941. The Pentagon is one of the Worlds largest office buildings. It has five sides, five floors above ground (plus two basement levels) and five ring corridors per floor. It houses approximately 23,000 military and civilian employees. It’s made up of a small amount of steel and 680,000 tons of sand, dredged from the Potomac River. Inside there is:

131 stairways

19 escalators

13 elevators

7,754 windows

284 restrooms

691 drinking fountains

4,200 clocks

16,250 light fixtures

And there are:

1,200,000 pieces of mail handled monthly by the defense Post Office

And 200,000 phone calls made daily

The War Department is the forerunner of today’s Department of Defense. In 1941 The Department was operating from 17 separate buildings in Washington. So they built the Pentagon to house everyone in the same building at once.

September 11^th 2001 or 9/11 the Pentagon’s outer wall was hit by an airplane. The Pentagon commemorates the Anniversary every year.

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