Pentagon 9-11: Scars You Can't See A Chief Master Sergeant's Reckoning with Truth, Trust, and Coming Home

He was appointed senior enlisted advisor for relief and recovery at the Pentagon within hours of the attack. What he carried out of that parking lot never fully left him.

Roger A. Woody grew up in a one-bathroom house in Gallatin, Missouri, where hard work and quiet integrity were the only inheritance that mattered. Thirty years later, as a Chief Master Sergeant, he stood in the wreckage of the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, helping coordinate the search, recovery, and identification of the...