Politicians reflect on 9/11 — then and now

Posted: Monday, September 12, 2011 11:45 am | Updated: 5:59 am, Thu May 31, 2012.

Rep. Richard Pombo was standing near the top of the U.S. Capitol dome while giving two visiting cousins a personal tour when terrorists flew an airplane into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.

“We heard the explosion and felt the shock waves,” Pombo recalled recently.

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