On the morning of the September 11 attack on the Pentagon, Mary was a soldier in the U.S. Army as she sat at her desk with her two-month-old baby girl in a stroller beside her. Mary says it was when she reached to press the “power on” button for her computer that it exploded in her face, and she immediately thought: "bomb.” Then, during what she described as a "slow period," she saw her daughter blown out of her stroller, flames arising from everywhere, and falling debris which, for a moment, pinned her to the floor. As she frantically worked to free herself and begin the search for her daughter, Mary listened to her colleagues' screams for help and yelled back to them: "Help me find my daughter! I'll help you! But help me find my daughter!"