– HMC Eduardo Colon brought in his stones from the rubble at the Pentagon. Colon called each of the first class petty officers who were selected for chief petty officer to the stage with him. As he talked about going through the season when he made chief, he explained how his wife put together a bag of stones, and each one held a stone. “These stones represent the people that worked that day, the people that died that day, every person that responded that day,” Colon said. “They represent the flag.”

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