A native of Picayune, Mississippi, Ada L. Mason-Acker served as a budget analyst for the U.S. Army.

James Joe Ferguson, 39, was director of geography education outreach at the National Geographic Society and a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77, accompanying three DC public school teachers and three students on a National Geographic-sponsored field trip to the Channel Islands off Santa Barbara, California.

If there were a definition of Army values in the dictionary, Jerry D. Dickerson’s picture would sit right next to it, said a longtime friend and fellow military man, Lt. Col. Glenn W. Harp.