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"In 2001, Rick Rescorla was the 62-year-old head of security at the Morgan Stanley Bank. The bank's offices were situated high up in the South Tower at the World Trade Center. Rescorla was convinced that Osama Bin Laden would use jet planes to try and destroy the World Trade Center. Long before September 11th, he developed an evacuation plan for the bank. The plan and its preparation were hugely unpopular with the Morgan Stanley staff, many of whom thought Rescorla was mad. Ultimately, however, the plan saved 3,000 lives. It was put into effect after the first jet hit the...

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Early Sunday morning, I sat down to write my column. As I typed “September,” the computer prompted me with the date. September 11, 2005. My stomach dropped. I hadn't remembered. But all of a sudden, there it was, staring me in the face, hovering over the otherwise blank page. In a flash, it all came back to me. I could barely sleep for the flood of memories. I realized how long it had been since I'd thought of 9/11. Reference to it would pass before me from time to time, but I hadn't remembered it. Shortly after September 11, news...

. NEVER FORGET 'The Man Who Predicted 9/11 - RICK RESCORLA' (r.i.p.) The History Channel's 9/11 TV Special airs Sunday night - 9/11/05 5 pm & 8 pm Pacific Time * * Check TV Schedules for Eastern & Central Time Zone TV air times ...just for the LOVE of it. NEVER FORGET .

Tony Blair has backed calls for a posthumous honour for a British-born hero of the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York, it has emerged. Rick Rescorla served in Vietnam Rick Rescorla, 62, was head of security for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter when two hijacked airliners hit the World Trade Centre in 2001. He died after helping save 2,700 people by making sure they left the South Tower before it collapsed. His body has never been found. Originally from Hayle, west Cornwall, Mr Rescorla was granted US citizenship in the late 1960s and served in Vietnam. In 2002 he was...

. NEVER FORGET Mrs. SUSAN RESCORLA will be honoring her late lifesaving hero husband RICK RESCORLA at 11:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time on Southern California's radio station KTIE 590 AM and worldwide on the web at: http://www.SocialWeapons.com (Linked above & below) 'Social Weapons' Talk Radio Show Host PETE MITCHELL has informed us that he will be archiving Mrs. SUSAN RESCORLA's inspiring Radio Interview Sunday on his above website for continuous internet access thereafter. The lifesaving hero of the 1965 Battle of the IA DRANG Valley, the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing and the 2001 Airstrikes on the World Trade Center,...

. NEVER FORGET . ...Now there is a way for all of us to help Mrs. SUSAN RESCORLA properly honor her Lifetime Lifesaving Hero husband RICK RESCORLA... ...who died so that 1,000's of others would live past a soon collapsing World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. ...A Man for All Seasons who focused on saving the lives of others his entire life, so very willingly. RICK RESCORLA - Lifetime Lifesaver 1965 Battle of the IA DRANG Valley 1993 Bombing of the World Trade Center 2001 Airstrikes on the World Trade Center for: Sacrifice begets Sacrifice for: LOVE is the...

Rick Rescorla helped save thousands before losing his life at World Trade Center In Susan Rescorla's eyes, the very traits that made her late husband a hero on 9/11 were forged on the battlefields of Vietnam almost 40 years ago. "He was a soldier... and a warrior," she whispered, shortly after an Al Reid portrait of Rick Rescorla, an Officer Candidate School Hall of Famer who led more than 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees to safety after terrorists crashed a plane into the World Trade Center, was unveiled Thursday at the National Infantry Museum. "He made one last sweep, as he'd...

Rick Rescorla may be remembered forever as a hero who led hundreds of people to safety from the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, but he will be immortalized at Fort Benning as a young soldier in Vietnam. A portrait of the former Army colonel was unveiled Thursday in a special ceremony honoring Rescorla, a decorated Vietnam veteran who died in the terrorist attack after helping evacuate 2,700 employees from the World Trade Center. The 62-year-old Rescorla, a Fort Benning Officer Candidate School Hall of Famer, was security chief for Morgan Stanley working in the south tower. After the...

September 10, 2004 911 Remembered: Rick Rescorla was a soldier Have you seen the movie We were Soldiers? A good one, in my opinion. Given just a couple hours to tell a tale I think all in all the folks involved did a commendable job. Perhaps it's hard to go wrong, given the source material. We Were Soldiers Once, And Young is an account of the battle at Ia Drang Valley, fought in the still early phases of the war in Viet Nam. The book was written by Hal Moore, who was then a Lt Col and commander of the...

It's hard to believe that two years have passed since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre, the Pentagon and in the skies of Pennsylvania. The horror and sadness feel as raw today as they did on September 11, 2001. Not a day has passed that I haven't thought about the victims of those attacks. I think about how they missed seeing their children grow. How they were robbed of weddings and falling in love. How even life's small pleasures, like baseball or a beautiful day, were senselessly stolen from these innocents, and how their loved ones were also...

“He had grown up in a village on England's southwest coast and left at age sixteen to join the British military. He'd fought against Communists in Cyprus and Rhodesia. He then came to America, he said, so that he could enlist in the Army and go to Vietnam. He welcomed the opportunity to join the American cause in Southeast Asia. He worked his way up through the ranks to Sergeant before being commissioned. The epitome of the young warrior, he was the sort that England seems to have bred in abundance for centuries: the type of young man who in...

NEVER FORGET ...After the CLINTONS refused 3 Offers from the Sudan to bring OSAMA bin LADEN here during the 1990's which would have stopped the Attacks of September 11, 2001 on US all, it's... '911 Remembered: RICK RESCORLA was a Soldier' http://www.mudvillegazette.com/archives/000307.html Lifesaving Hero: Battle of IA DRANG-1965, World Trade Center Bombing-1993, World Trade Center Airstrikes-2001 ...Oh, WHY did such a Fella have to die on 911..? Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer / Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 NEVER FORGET

EX-PLATOON LEADER REPEATED SELFLESS FEAT OF 1993, HELPING LEAD PEOPLE OUT TUESDAY Sept. 14, 2001 BY EMILIE LOUNSBERRY Knight Ridder NEW YORK -- As security head at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Rick Rescorla knew the drill: He had ferried employees out when terrorism first struck the World Trade Center in 1993, and he was there with his bullhorn Tuesday, trying once again to get his people out. Nearly all of them did. Rescorla did not. He is one of the 15 Morgan Stanley employees still missing. And those who know him say that Rescorla, who was in his 44th-floor office...

FYI, a biography of Col. Rick Rescorla written by James B. Stewart has been published by Simon and Schuster. Col. Rescorla (ret.) was a Vietnam war hero and the head of Morgan Stanley security (the largest tenant in the WTC). He is credited with helping to evacuate thousands. He was killed when 2WTC collapsed after he had gone back in to look for stragglers.Heart of a SoldierFrom Amazon: Sometimes from the ashes of tragedy comes an extraordinary, even magical story that inspires, offers hope, and helps heal even the deepest wounds. Heart of a Soldier is such a story, one...