{"id":27258,"date":"2013-12-04T03:07:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T06:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=27258"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:15:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:15:50","slug":"pentagon-attack-survivor-tells-of-faith-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/04\/pentagon-attack-survivor-tells-of-faith-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Attack Survivor Tells of Faith, Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas State Senator Brian Birdwell (R-Granbury) is a retired US Army Colonel. On September 11, 2001, he was working in the Pentagon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;A second plane striking the second tower confirmed that a terrorist attack was underway, he said, at which time he and both coworkers prayed together. Seconds later, Birdwell told his coworkers he would be back in a minute as he had to go to the restroom, which turned out to be the last words he ever spoke to either.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes later, <!--more-->American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon, hitting between Birdwell\u2019s office and the restrooms down the hallway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Birdwell succinctly explains the reason he survived that day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI did not survive because the Army made me tough,\u201d he said. \u201cI survived because of the grace of the toughest man who ever lived 2,000 years ago.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well said. Read more of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/9-11-pentagon-survivor-and-retired-colonel-now-texas-lawmaker-recalls-ordeal-1.254932\">Texas State Senator Birdwell&#8217;s story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas State Senator Brian Birdwell (R-Granbury) is a retired US Army Colonel. On September 11, 2001, he was working in the Pentagon: &#8230;A second plane striking the second tower confirmed that a terrorist attack was underway, he said, at which time he and both coworkers prayed together. Seconds later, Birdwell told his coworkers he would be back in a minute [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[88,4474,2,63,10,171],"class_list":["post-27258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-brian-birdwell","tag-military","tag-pentagon","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}