Amelia Virginia Fields – Military Spouse & Government Employee

Amelia Fields
Attack Location: Pentagon
Age: 46
Home: Dumfries, Virginia

Amelia Fields turned 46 that morning. Her husband, who had been her high school sweetheart, slipped out of their Dumfries home during breakfast to place a surprise birthday card in her car.

While she headed to work at the Pentagon, where she was a civilian secretary for the Army, he baked a chocolate cake for when she would have arrived home that night.

It “would have been the first thing she saw when she walked in,” said William Fields, a retired Marine Corps Master Sergeant.

Amelia Fields has not been heard from since American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon on Tuesday, leaving her husband uncertain how to register certain aspects of her fate. She had worked there for only two days, having been assigned
previously to Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County.

Amelia Virginia Dennis was born in Princess Anne, Maryland, on the Eastern Shore. She and her future husband met in study hall during their junior year at Washington High School. He was shy; she wasn’t. That sparked the initial attraction.

They graduated in 1973. After they married two years later, she accompanied him on his military assignments and volunteered at Navy hospitals while raising the couple’s two children, William Jr., 23, and Shantell Fields, 18.

Since moving to this area in 1977, she was active at the First Mount Zion Baptist Church in Dumfries.

— Adam Bernstein

Note: Mrs. Fields was laid to rest in Section 64 of Arlington National Cemetery, near the Pentagon building.

Michael Robert Patterson

Michael Robert Patterson was born in Arlington and is the son of a former officer of the US Army. So it was no wonder that sooner or later his interests drew him to American history and especially to American military history. Many of his articles can be found on renowned portals like the New York Times, Washingtonpost or Wikipedia.

Reviewed by: Michael Howard