Government Executive
August 1, 2000
The Pentagon...
is bigger than nine out of 10 U.S. townshas no marble because it was built during World War II, and Italy, the source of marble, was an enemy countrywas designed as a temporary facilitycontains a 5-acre courtyard that is the world's largest no-hat, no-salute zone (so active-duty service members can sit and have lunch "without having to repeatedly stand and hit themselves in the forehead with their sandwiches," explains Fontana) has 41,492 columns holding it up (no steel framing was used because of the war)held 33,000 people at its peak in the 1950scould fit the U.S. Capitol into any one of its five sideshas its own medical facilities, post office, mini-mall, Metro station, heliport, fire station, heating and refrigeration plant and sewage treatment facility.
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