Trump awards posthumous Presidential Citizens Medal to Sept. 11 hero Rick Rescorla
Excerpt: "We were all sitting in our holes with our knees knocking, we have dead guys all around us, and here comes Rick singing Cornish songs," Sam Fantino, who served with Rescorla in the battle of la Drang near the Cambodian border, said in 2015 when a conference center at Fort Hood, Texas was dedicated in Rescorla's name, according to Military.com. After the first plane hit the towers on 9/11, Rescorla ordered Morgan Stanley employees to get out of the South Tower and ignore building announcements telling people to stay at their desks. As he directed workers in the stairwells, Rescorla went right on singing his hymns. One of Rescorla’s last phone calls was to his close friend, Dan Hill, who he had known since his days in Rhodesia. Rescorla told Hill to get to New York to help with the aftermath of the attack. Rescorla then resumed singing a hymn, Hill told the New Yorker magazine in 2002. [Rescorla was a genuine hero several times over. He was prominently mentioned in the book ‘We Were Soldiers Once, and Young.' In fact, the photograph on the book’s cover is a picture of him. During the evacuation of his people from the Twin Towers, he has been credited with saving the lives of over 2500 people. He was residing in Morristown, NJ at the time of his death. There is a really good write up about him at Histornet at this link: https://www.historynet.com/rick-rescorla-hero-of-ia-drang-and-the-twin-towers.htm There were also some good magazine articles at the time. Read what you can about this guy. It’s inspiring. Ron P.] (I have read his wife's book, "Heart of a Soldier." Great book, worth reading. ~Bob)
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