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There are good men.

Then there are great men.

God Bless his family and all he touched.

1 posted on 09/11/2017 11:26:45 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil

The biography on him was great.


2 posted on 09/11/2017 11:38:02 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Texas Fossil

The Real Heroes Are Dead
A love story.
By James B. Stewart

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/02/11/the-real-heroes-are-dead

An absolute must read.
And reread on this day.

IIRC “The Real Heroes Are Dead”, was the genesis for
Heart of a Soldier Paperback
also by James B. Stewart


3 posted on 09/11/2017 11:49:15 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Please! DonÂ’t tell me about Vietnam because I have been there.)
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To: Texas Fossil

Not much of a stretch to assume the WTC would be attacked again. The WTC was bombed in 1993 by the Blind Sheik, who was admitted into the US by the GHW Bush Administration despite being a known terrorist. He was even given a ‘green card’.


4 posted on 09/11/2017 11:50:32 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Texas Fossil
Rick Rescorla a few years earlier:


5 posted on 09/11/2017 11:51:23 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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6 posted on 09/11/2017 11:53:17 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: Texas Fossil

Without Colonel Rick Riscorla the casualties on 9/11 would have been double, over 5,000.


15 posted on 09/11/2017 12:11:43 PM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: Texas Fossil

My dad was friends with him as well as General Moore.


24 posted on 09/11/2017 12:53:11 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: Texas Fossil

Amen


34 posted on 09/11/2017 1:39:56 PM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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