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Relates the life of Rick Rescorla, a former soldier and the head of security for Morgan Stanley, who successfully evacuated 2,700 of the company's employees from the south tower of the World Trade Center on September 11th.

A commissioned officer for the 101st Airborne Division recounts the story of her marriage to a helicopter pilot with the Air Cavalry, describing their shared horror at the September 11 attacks and her husband's death in Iraq.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.