"A 24-year-old kid went back into a burning skyscraper to save strangers and never came home. "Twenty-five years later, Trump just made it official. Donald Trump just awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Welles Crowther – and what his mother said next stopped the crowd cold."
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The Man Nobody Knew for Eight Months
"Here is what happened on the 78th floor of the South Tower on the morning of September 11, 2001.
"People were trapped with broken bones, charred skin, lungs full of black smoke.
"They believed they were going to die.
"Then a young man appeared from the smoke wearing a red bandana over his face.
"He found the only surviving stairwell.
"He led survivors down it, carried a badly injured woman 17 floors on his back, handed her off – and went back up.
"He did it again." . . .
Barack Obama spoke at the National September 11 Memorial Museum dedication in 2014 and mentioned Welles Crowther by name. He called him a hero.
Then he went back to the White House and gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Meryl Streep and Bruce Springsteen.
8 Harrowing Facts About The 9/11 Jumpers - Listverse #4; They Had a Long, Horrifying Way Down
"Jumpers"? Really?
I’m an NYC death investigator — still fighting the sickening lie of 9/11’s jumpers . . . "To call these people “jumpers” fails to capture the anguish they experienced, their lack of choice.
"It doesn’t honor them; it blames the victims rather than the terrorists.
"Call them “those who fell from the windows” — or who were “pushed out by forces beyond their control.”
"Whatever we choose, let’s use the right words."
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