Rick Rescorla was the soldier used on the cover of the book “We Were Soldiers Once and Young”. He saved a lot of soldiers in Vietnam.
He later became head of security at Morgan Stanley in the twin towers. After the tuck bomb in the basement he got together with some ex-military friends soon after to figure out what the next attack would be like.
They all came up with the idea that it would be hijacking a large plane and crashing it into the buildings. So that’s what he planned for and trained the company employees to do. (Much to their complaints as he would practice dry runs and have them go down flights of stairs.)
He had them moving down the stairs right after the first plane hit, ignoring the shelter in place orders over the loud speakers.
2,700 Morgan Stanley employees evacuated in time. Thirteen didn’t make it. Rick was last seen heading up the stairs (after numerous other times up) to help others get out of the building.
Thanks for the info on Rick. I’m familiar with him, and his story, but hadn’t heard about him and his military friends getting together to plan for a future attack. After the atrocities in Mogadishu in 1993, the WTC bombing, the bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in 2000, the U.S. government/military should have realized what was coming. All those attacks occurred on Bill Clinton’s watch, and he’s never been held accountable for any of them.