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Thru the RICK RESCORLA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION... a new Bronze Sculpture of RICK RESCORLA is to stand in a place he dearly LOVED:
Ft. Benning GA
A holy place that trains America's Heroes to fight for the Freedom of Others, everywhere, freeing them all to more freely LOVE one another.
For more, see:
Outstanding new RICK RESCORLA website below
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911 REMEMBERED: RICK RESCORLA was a Soldier
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MEL's -PASSION- sparked by -WE WERE SOLDIERS-
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Wow. I didn't know his story. He definitely deserves a statue in his honor!
Thanks for your dedication, over the years, in remembering and honoring Rick.
New RICK RESCORLA website
http://www.RickRescorla.com
Viet Nam Vet AND 9/11 Hero PING
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Benning is a perfect place for this.
RIP bump
He called last night and we talked for an hour... like having him at the kitchen table again, for those talks we had that lasted way into early morning... man, I MISS those times. He reminds me of myself when I was that age... ahhhhhh....
Mojoe and prayers are hereby requested and appreciated, as for all of us with loved ones serving.
All I can say is "Wow".
Save to pass on
I just finished the most gut gripping, heart wrenching book. I could not sleep for nights thinking about the horrors experienced by those trapped inside the Twin Towers and knowing America has breed such incredibly brave and selfless men and women who'd risk their lives to save others.
The name of the book is 102 MINUTES The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers written by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn, 2005
Rick Rescorla's heroism is mentioned many times in the book and he is truly a brave and courageous "angel in the whirlwind".
WE Will Not Forget!
Air Cav!!!!
redrock
Old Dogs and Wild Geese are Fighting
Head for the Storm
As you faced it before
For where there is the Seventh
There’s bound to be fighting
And where there’s no fighting
It’s the Seventh no more.
Best,
Rick Rescorla, Hard Corps One-Six
“Hard Corps One-Six” was his radio call sign in Vietnam.
Hi Ronnie. Did I ever tell you I spoke to Rick Rescorla in '93, just before the first WTC bombing? He told me that day how my dad saved his life in the battle of the Ia Drang Valley.
We spoke for the longest time and what a warm and kind individual he was. I'll never forget...
Nam Vet
Ft. Benning GA
A holy place that trains America's Heroes to fight for the Freedom of Others, everywhere, freeing them all to more freely LOVE one another.
102 Minutes : The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805076824/104-6285328-5697533?%5Fencoding=UTF8
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
In 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers, New York Times writers Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn vividly recreate the 102-minute span between the moment Flight 11 hit the first Twin Tower on the morning of September 11, 2001, and the moment the second tower collapsed, all from the perspective of those inside the buildings--the 12,000 who escaped, and the 2,749 who did not. It's becoming easier, years later, to forget the profound, visceral responses the Trade Center attacks evoked in the days and weeks following September 11. Using hundreds of interviews, countless transcripts of radio and phone communications, and exhaustive research, Dwyer and Flynn bring that flood of responses back--from heartbreak to bewilderment to fury. The randomness of death and survival is heartbreaking. One man, in the second tower, survived because he bolted from his desk the moment he heard the first plane hit; another, who stayed at his desk on the 97th floor, called his wife in his final moments to tell her to cancel a surprise trip he had planned. In many cases, the deaths of those who survived the initial attacks but were killed by the collapse of the towers were tragically avoidable. Building code exemptions, communication breakdowns between firefighters and police, and policies put in place by building management to keep everyone inside the towers in emergencies led, the authors argue, to the deaths of hundreds who might otherwise have survived. September 11 is by now both familiar and nearly mythological. Dwyer and Flynn's accomplishment is recounting that day's events in a style that is stirring, thorough, and refreshingly understated. --Erica C. Barnett
Product Description:
The dramatic and moving account of the struggle for life inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, when every minute counted
At 8:46 am on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the twin towers-reading e-mails, making trades, eating croissants at Windows on the World. Over the next 102 minutes, each would become part of a drama for the ages, one witnessed only by the people who lived it-until now.
Of the millions of words written about this wrenching day, most were told from the outside looking in. New York Times reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn have taken the opposite-and far more revealing-approach. Reported from the perspectives of those inside the towers, 102 Minutes captures the little-known stories of ordinary people who took extraordinary steps to save themselves and others. Beyond this stirring panorama stands investigative reporting of the first rank. An astounding number of people actually survived the plane impacts but were unable to escape, and the authors raise hard questions about building safety and tragic flaws in New York's emergency preparedness.
Dwyer and Flynn rely on hundreds of interviews with rescuers, thousands of pages of oral histories, and countless phone, e-mail, and emergency radio transcripts. They cross a bridge of voices to go inside the infernos, seeing cataclysm and heroism, one person at a time, to tell the affecting, authoritative saga of the men and women-the nearly 12,000 who escaped and the 2,749 who perished-as they made 102 minutes count as never before.
Rick Rescorla.
One of the few whose gravestone could simply state, "I led a life" and none would laugh.