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I’d like to take a moment to re-tell the story of this amazing hero of 9\/11. I could write about Colonel Rick Rescorla (ret), but our own Hondo wrote him up better than I ever could more than six years ago. Without further ado, take a moment to remember men like Rick and the hundreds of others who didn’t make it out of those towers. Men and women like Rick Rescorla, which included 344 fire fighters and 71 police officers, who rushed into the World Trade Center to save lives and didn’t come home.<\/p>\n

\u201cStop crying. I have to get these people out safely.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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