BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Two Indiana companies are teaming up to provide limestone needed to repair the outer wall of the Pentagon damaged in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

        Bybee Stone Co. of Elletts- ville and Independent Limestone Co. of rural Bloomington are preparing to send loads of stone to the nation's capital for the project.

        “We're glad to be a part of it,” Steve Cummings, general manager of Independent Limestone, told the Herald-Times for a story published Sunday.

        “It's tragic what happened. But it's nice to see that they're putting it back together the way it was,” he said.

        In recent years, Bybee Stone Co. has provided stone and finishing work on a number of the best-known buildings in Washington, including the National Cathedral, the U.S. Capitol, the Smithsonian Institution and the Pentagon.

        The company, which specializes in limestone, will be cutting, shaping and shipping tons of stone quarried in Monroe County in southern Indiana later this month to be used for the Pentagon repairs.

        The Pentagon appears to be made of solid limestone, but the majority of the structure is poured concrete.

        Limestone is used on the outer walls as a facing, attached to a brick surface.

        Stone from Independent Limestone quarries has been used throughout the world since the company started operations in the 1920s.

        Similar limestone, taken from Indiana Limestone Co. quarries in the 1940s, makes up most of the original Pentagon limestone.

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