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Remembering a 9-1-1 hero: Rick Rescorla

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Sometimes, we need heroes to awaken our souls. Here, is a genuine hero — the man who literally predicted what happened on a fateful day in September 2001 and set out to save lives. He saved 2700 that day and was last seen heading back up, looking for stragglers.

Wikipedia’s summary is a start:

Cyril Richard “Rick” Rescorla (May 27, 1939 – September 11, 2001) was a British-born military officer, police officer and private security specialist who was a British paratrooper during the Cyprus Emergency and a United States commissioned officer in the Vietnam War. He rose to the rank of colonel in the United States Army and eventually became head of security at Morgan Stanley at the World Trade Center.[2]
As the director of security for the financial services firm Morgan Stanley at the World Trade Center, Rescorla anticipated attacks on the towers and implemented evacuation procedures credited with saving many lives.[3] He died during the attacks of September 11, 2001, while leading evacuees from the South Tower.

His friend summed up the man at the 2006 unveiling of his statue at Ft Benning, Georgia where US Infantry are trained:

Let us remember. END

Comments
KF, Thank you for posting this soul-awakening story. I don’t recall ever hearing of this heroic story that took place over 18 years ago. I must have been too busy focusing on much less relevant things. Definitely those who were rescued by this hero shouldn’t have any problem ever naming a genuinely good human friend, as long as they can reason.PaoloV
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Thank you, sir, for remembering one of the great Americans of all time when most everyone has forgotten if they ever knew.
Men of Cornwall stop your dreaming, Can’t you see their spearpoints gleaming? See their warriors’ pennants streaming, To this battlefield. Men of Cornwall stand ye steady, It cannot be ever said ye for the battle were not ready, Stand and never yield!
jstanley01
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Remembering a 9-1-1 hero: Rick Rescorlakairosfocus
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