The Red Bandanna: A Life, A Choice, A Legacy

✍ Scribed by Rinaldi, Tom

• Book ID: 109235599
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 8 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781594206771

✦ Synopsis

What would you do in the last hour of your life?
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The story of Welles Crowther, whose actions on 9/11 offer a lasting lesson on character, calling and courage

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One Sunday morning before church, when Welles Crowther was a young boy, his father gave him a red handkerchief for his back pocket. Welles kept it with him that day, and just about every day to come; it became a fixture and his signature.
A standout athlete growing up in Upper Nyack, NY, Welles was also a volunteer at the local fire department, along with his father. He cherished the necessity and the camaraderie, the meaning of the role. Fresh from college, he took a Wall Street job on the 104th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center, but the dream of becoming a firefighter with the FDNY remained.
When the Twin Towers fell, Welles's parents had no idea what happened to him. In the unbearable days that followed, they came to accept that he would never...