Willie Q. Troy has voice mail messages he will never retrieve. Family members and friends frantically tried to contact him by cell phone as news of the attack on the Pentagon became widely publicized. But he never called back.

Eric Cranford was born and nurtured in the little town of Drexel in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.

Christopher Lee Burford, of Hubert, North Carolina, joined the Navy shortly after finishing high school.