Rick Rescorla: Led thousands to safety on 9/11

Rick Rescorla: Led thousands to safety on 9/11

This article originally appeared in Align on September 11, 2024. We repost it today in commemoration of Memorial Day. Studying and emulating the lives of great men is a useful practice with a long history. Our culture, however, tends to promote celebrities, self-improvement gurus, and politicians. Although no such luminaries proved of much use during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, many “ordinary” people found it within themselve…