Article: East Peoria, Ill., Firm to Redo Pentagon Generator.

By Anita Szoke, Journal Star, Peoria, Ill. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 10--EAST PEORIA, Ill.--Lawrence Tangel and his crew at Enercon Engineering Inc. in East Peoria got the word just days after the plane slammed into the Pentagon.

A friend working at the Pentagon sent them an e-mail photo of a generator unit engulfed in flames after the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the west side of the building.

"I asked him, 'That's not my generator is it? And he said, 'Yeah it is, you might as well start now on a new one,'" said Tom Bessler, account executive at Enercon.

The East Peoria firm had designed the ...

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