Courtesy of The White House

11:35 P.M. EDT

     THE PRESIDENT:  Good evening.  Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.

By Wayne Dawkins
ARLINGTON, Va. – Day after the shooting outside the Pentagon, my college student daughter called to ask, “Can’t they make the Pentagon entrance more secure?”
Standing outside Fairfax Drive here, I told my daughter that don’t let the “lack of security” deceiver her. Because terrorists crashed a commercial jet into the Pentagon on 9/11, the shooting scene, the Pentagon Metro train stop entrance, was pushed back from the building to allow more room to carefully screen people.