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A truly chilling example of foreshadowing, The Voice of the Prophet is an interview with Rick Rescorla, the head of security for the investment firm Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Filmed on the 44th floor of the World Trade Center in 1998, Rescorla details the future of warfare long before Osama bin Laden became America's Most Wanted. A retired Army colonel, veteran of combat in three wars and a survivor of the 1993 bombing of the twin towers (in which he saved the lives of hundreds of Morgan Stanley employees), Rescorla was killed in the WTC attacks of September 11, 2001....

NEVER FORGET Memorial Day 1966 = Americans say Vietnam Veterans are too close to the action to know what the Vietnam War is really all about. Memorial Day 2002 = Former CIA Director ..JAMES WOOLSEY.. says that a new Commission of America's -Best and Brightest- Minds should be brought together in a D.C. Conference Room to come up with recommendations on how to best fight a new World War on Terrrorism... ...with a picture placed on the wall above them of Vietnam Veteran ..RICK RESCORLA.. the Lifesaving Hero of the Battle of IA DRANG-1965, the World Trade Center Bombing-1993 and...

Heads-up! Rick Resorla is to be profiled on NBC's DateLine. His role in Vietnam (featured as a chapter in "We Were Soldiers Once...And Young) and his life-saving role (while losing his own) in 9-11 at the WTC will be covered. Please note the URL above can be used to get to NBC's Dateline, but they seem to be behind on their own schedule, as I see no listing of Rescorla on tonight's show...but I saw Ms. Jane Pauley announce it at the end of last night's DateLine and it's listed in my local (Major) newspaper. Note Well: This episode will...