Stone completes new Pentagon facade

WASHINGTON -- Workers fitted a blackened slab of limestone into place at the Pentagon Tuesday, marking nine months since the Sept. 11 attack by completing repair of the building's damaged facade.

The stone placed Tuesday was engraved with the date -- Sept. 11, 2001 -- it was damaged when hijackers flew an American Airlines jet into the Pentagon, killing themselves and 184 others.

Behind it, Walker Lee Evey, head of the Pentagon renovation program, put a bronze "dedication capsule" containing names of the victims and mementos of the attack.

Workers have rebuilt the portions of three outer rings of the building that had to be torn down after the attacks. The rebuilt sections have to be finished with walls, wiring, fixtures and the like.