The Underground Conservative

Rick Rescorla was a Vietnam War hero who, though of British birth, served in the U.S. Army and fought at the battle of Ia Drang, which was depicted in the Mel Gibson movie “We Were Soldiers Once.”

If that’s not enough heroism for one lifetime, he gave his life on September 11, 2001, helping to save the lives of nearly 3,700 of his co-workers from the firm Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Think about it: the number of dead on 9/11 might well have been double had it not been for Rick.

I posted about Rick on my other blog, Castro Death Watch. But you can read more about him here and here.

We owe it to Rick and others like him to remember 9/11.

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