Biography About Rick Rescorla -- WTC Hero

BlessedBeGod, Amazon.com | 09/11/02 | BlessedBeGod

[BlessedBeGod]

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 Soldier

From 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 of love and friendship, danger and courage, redemption and heroism, thrillingly told by one of America's finest writers.

Susan Greer, middle-aged and divorced, had just about given up on love and romance when she met a stranger who, oddly, was jogging in his bare feet.

Born in Britain on the eve of World War II, Rick Rescorla became an American citizen and a much-decorated soldier. His extraordinary life is woven into the military conflicts of his time, from the battlefields of colonial Africa, where he and his best friend, U.S. Army officer Dan Hill, led lives of adventure worthy of Kipling and Conrad, to some of the deadliest battles of Vietnam to the epicenter of modern-day terrorism. Surviving them all with great courage and style, Rescorla seemed invincible.

Rescorla tried to put combat and death behind him, and for a time it seemed as though he had succeeded. With Susan, he found the peace and domesticity he craved. But it turned out that everything in his remarkable life was preparing him for one last act of selflessness that would transcend all that had come before. Then, on September 11, 2001, he faced the ultimate test.

Heart of a Soldier shows us bravery under fire, loyalty to one's comrades, and the miracle of finding happiness late in life. In charge of security for Morgan Stanley, Rick Rescorla successfully got 2,700 of its employees out of the World Trade Center's South Tower on September 11. Then, thinking perhaps of the soldiers who had died in his arms and of Susan, the woman who had "made his life," he went back and began climbing the tower stairs, looking for stragglers.

Heart of a Soldier is an inspiring and unforgettable story from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Den of Thieves and Blind Eye.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...It was Tower 2's RICK RESCORLA and his Army Buddy/Terrorism Expert DAN HILL...

...that warned the Port Authority of the World Trade Center's vulnerability to a bombing attack in its basement that could have let the Hudson River IN to flood all lower Manhattan before the WTC Bombing-1993...

...that was ignored by New York's Port Authority.

Some Port Authority Personnel died on September 11, 2001.

[Fred Mertz]

Thanks for alerting me to this article about RICK RESCORLA'S biography. He was a man's man, no doubt about it.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Ping!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

NEVER FORGET