Even more than two decades after the World Trade Center was destroyed, it remains the defining event of the 21st Century. For years it made terrorism the fear in the forefront of the cultural consciousness. It also completely overshadowed centuries of terrorist activity, and in the process contributed to a highly skewed vision of the past and how relatively peaceful supposedly was. Yet issues that have long slid into obscurity have cost dozens if not hundreds of people their lives at a stroke. 

10. The Haymarket Affair

Today working class people are so venerated by the American mainstream that it can be jarring to look back at how brutal law enforcement was willing to be with them. On May 3, 1886, workers at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company in Chicago, Illinois were protesting for eight hour shifts, a movement which had been underway since at least the 1860s. To protect scabs, the police fired on the workers, resulting in one death and several injuries. That rapidly escalated the conflict so that the next day there were well over 1,000 protesters, and during a clash with the police, a bomb was thrown by an unknown individual into the ranks of the police. Accounts vary on how many deaths were caused by the explosion and how many were from resulting friendly fire, the end result was eleven people were killed, seven of them police officers. A further 100 people were wounded. 

 In further reprisal, the state of Illinois accused and convicted eight anarchist leaders of being responsible for the bombing despite a lack of evidence. Of those one committed suicide in prison, four were executed on November 11, 1887. In 1893, Governor John Altgeld pardoned the surviving three accused for being the victims of an unjust trial. Given that there was evidence that jury members had expressed that they believed the defendants were guilty before the proceedings even began and that all of the accused had alibis that they weren’t present at the protest and witnesses testifying they hadn’t thrown the bomb, it’s an understandable judgement.  

9. Los Angeles Times Bombing

By 1910, labor conflicts had, if anything, become even more dangerous, even in heavily unionized communities such as Los Angeles. One of the more flamboyant enemies of unions was Los Angeles Times owner Harrison Otis, who paid strikebreakers to attack workers and thus was so hated that he rode in a limousine armed with a cannon. He’s credited with coining the phrase “you’re either with me or you’re against me.” Two ironworking brothers named James and John McNamara conspired to scare him by setting off sixteen sticks of dynamite in the publication’s basement on September 30, 1910. They did not realize that there were gas lines under the building or how flammable the ink was, and thus they set a horrific fire that killed 21 people and left dozens more injured. One who was not killed was Otis, who hired William Burns, one of the most celebrated private detectives in the nation at the time. 

The brothers evaded arrest until April 1911, when their explosives supplier Ortie McManigal named them in his confession. Famed lawyer Clarence Darrow took their defense case, and supposedly his own investigation found even more evidence that the McNamaras were guilty. The brothers confessed their crimes, and they were extremely fortunate that the senior John McNamara got a life sentence and James received a fifteen-year sentence. That was fewer years than they set back the cause of labor rights in America.  

8. Wall Street Bombing

September seems to be a particularly fateful month for New York City in terms of terrorist attacks. Almost exactly ten years after the Los Angeles Times Bombing, on September 16, 1920 at approximately 12:00 p.m., a recently abandoned cart parked at 23 Wall Street across the street from the J. P. Morgan Building exploded. The explosion sent iron sash weights placed around dynamite flying, overturned nearby vehicles, and left 38 people dead and 300 injured. Among the wounded victims was J. P. Morgan’s grandson Junius. 

Unlike the LA Times bombing, there was no closure from a trial because no group took credit for the bombing and no leads surfaced. Italian anarchist radical Pierto Angelo was suspected, and though he had an alibi which prevented him from being charged, he was deported anyway. There were thousands of arrests and interrogations, including hundreds of stable and window sash weight factory employees, but the case was declared closed in 1940 no closer to being solved than it was on the day of the attack.   

7. Bath School Disaster

The seeds of this attack seemed to have been sewn in 1922, when the community of Bath, Michigan built the Consolidated School. Local property taxes had been raised to pay for the purchase, which got to local farmer Andrew Kehoe sufficiently that he got elected school board treasurer and heatedly kept the school’s budget down. In May 1927, the repossession of his farm looming, he smuggled World War I surplus dynamite into the school’s basement, and set off a time-activated bomb on the 18th at 8:45. Discontent with the damage he had done, he drove to the site with a trunk full of even more explosives, and killed himself and five other people. Total deaths from the school attack included 38 students and six adults. It was set to be much worse, as there were hundreds of additional pounds of explosives in the basement that failed to go off. Kehoe had also killed his wife and several farm animals and set his farmhouse on fire. When police arrived at the scene, they found posted on his fence a brief but chilling manifesto “Criminals are made, not born.” 

While this act sounds like it should have become one of the most famous atrocities in American history and the perpetrator as infamous as Ed Gein or Charles Whitman, there was a very simple explanation for why it dropped out of the broader culture memory very quickly.  Three days later, Charles Lindbergh’s famous iconic solo transatlantic flight concluded successfully, and for most of the summer dominated headlines nationwide. Some historical publications, such as a 2018 article by Time, have asserted that if Kehoe had destroyed some institution such as a bank, as some people were doing in that era (especially during the upcoming Great Depression) then he might have garnered some public sympathy. 

6. An Assassination in Marseille

As far as 20th Century reigns go, that of Alexander I in Serbia was one of the more mixed. He was a hero of the Balkan Wars that prefigured World War I, and then he spent that momentous conflict as commander in chief of the Serbian military, and was declared Prince Regent on October 31, 1918. Yet within three years there was a major assassination attempt, which echoed how the previous Alexander of Serbia had been assassinated in 1903. In 1922 he formally took the throne, and soon had to deal with Croat separatists that went so far as to assassinate his Croat deputies. In 1929 he stepped up his unification policies by declaring himself dictator and passing standardization reforms, just in time for the Great Depression. To ease tensions he formed alliances and went on diplomatic missions. Despite his successes, the people still wanted a parliamentary government. Alexander I was in the planning stages of creating one when he went on a trip to France and met his fate on October 9, 1934 in the city of Marseille. His assassin was Vlado Chernozemski, one of the Croatian separatists that had been causing Alexander so much trouble for years.    

Alexander I’s assassination had the distinction of being the first filmed act of terrorism, nearly thirty years before the iconic Zapruder Film. According to a Columbia University paper on the subject, Adolf Hitler supposedly watched and rewatched the footage to study the reaction of the French police, convincing himself their inability to protect the King showed a lack of national character. Whatever the truth of that, there’s little doubt that the terrorist act set in motion many military efforts such as Mussolini and Hitler’s incursions towards the Balkans through the 1930s that would plunge Europe into another war by the end of the decade. That means that by a little noted coincidence, a Serbian assassin started World War I by killing Archduke Ferdinand and 20 years later another helped start World War II. 

5. Ford Motor Protests

Despite decades of setbacks, the Great Depression led to a surge in expanded labor rights, and with this growing worker power many larger companies became only more ruthless than ever. One Harry Bennett, often described as Henry Ford’s “right hand man” had always been aggressive in stomping out union activity in Ford factories, and on March 7, 1932 he reached an entirely new level. That day 3,000 unemployed Ford employees were marching to Dearborn, Michigan in what was called the Ford Hunger March. It quickly became the Ford Massacre when Bennett’s men opened fire, including with a machine gun. Bennett in particular was so enraged that some protesters threw rocks at him that he emptied his own gun, took a gun from a police officer, and emptied that. In total four marchers were killed, two of them teenagers, and dozens were wounded, some of the wounded being arrested in the following days while still on hospital beds.  

Yet the workers continued the fight. On May 26, 1937,  United Auto Workers members, including members of the 174 chapter of the Women’s Auxiliary, were handing out leaflets at the Miller Road overpass, again in Dearborn, Michigan. Bennett, ever hands on in his anti-union attacks, descended. In the subsequent beatings, one man’s back was broken, one man was kicked down flights of stairs, and newspaper men that happened to be present were also attacked. One particularly clever photographer named James Kilpatrick surrendered some blank film he hadn’t yet shot while hiding his photo negatives. This was a boon for the union because the photos made it clear that the anti-union people were the aggressors, and public support swung to the employees. Within four years, the Ford employees were a recognized union. 

4. The Lustgarten Attack

Most portrayals of Jews living the Third Reich depict them entirely as victims, but history shows incidents of pushback. On May 18, 1942, the almost exclusively Jewish Baum Gruppe, led by Herbert Baum, attacked a Reich art exhibit in Lustgarten, Berlin. Surprisingly the exhibit that drew their ire wasn’t anti-semitic, but anti-Soviet, as it was derisively called “the Soviet Paradise.” The attack mostly consisted of such ineffective arson that the exhibit reopened the next day. In their defense, the Baum Gruppe was mostly youths and nothing like seasoned partisans.  

Unsurprisingly, the response was swift and merciless. Nearly 500 Jews were arrested, and of them many were summarily shot. The New York Times reported at the time that 258 prisoners were executed. Despite their draconian response, the Gestapo made a point of claiming that Herbert Baum committed suicide in his cell instead of being executed. Why they bothered with such a public relations gesture was unclear. Rarely has one person’s terrorist ever so clearly been another person’s freedom fighter.  

3. The Machertos

Whatever a person’s position regarding relations between the United States and its territory Puerto Rico, it is clearly a sight better than it was in the 20th Century. For example, on March 1, 1954 members of a Puerto Rican independence group entered the House of Representatives chambers and wounded five representatives.  Between 1974 and 1981, there were reported to have committed 100 bombings in the US, many committed by the Armed Forces of National Liberation. The most harmful of these was in January 1975 at the Fraunces Tavern in Lower Manhattan which killed four people and wounded 53. 

By the late ’70s, the US military was firmly in the sights of such groups as the Machertos. On July 14, 1980 four navigation installations run by the Federal Aviation Administration and Coast Guard were destroyed, disrupting Latin American air traffic. But the most elaborate single attack was surely when the Machertos entered the Muniz Air National Guard Base. As reported by the Washington Post on January 16, 1981, they destroyed eight fighter jets and disabled two others. Fortunately no one was injured, but the damage was estimated to have cost $45 million. While this was a long time ago, it’s still a living memory for many, and should be something for people that want statehood for Puerto Rico. 

2. FLQ Attacks

Speaking of seperatist movements, In the early 1960s the Canadian province of Quebec witnessed the emergence of the Front de Libération du Québec. Their stated aim was to remove all British influence from Canada. Ironically, one of the founding figures of the movement wasn’t a Canadian, but a Belgian named Georges Schoeters. Nevertheless they quickly showed they were willing to use violence to achieve their aims. They sent bombs to Royal government buildings and mail boxes for years, and then expanded to sending bombs to businesses where employees were on strike. They were so numerous that one Pierre Paul Geoffroy would plead guilty to taking part in 31 bombings. The Globe and Mail reported that the human toll for the first six years of the campaign was five killed and one grievously injured. 

Yet at the time the most significant action related to the FLQ wasn’t one of their attacks but the Canadian government’s reaction to it. In 1970 the separatists switched to kidnappings, most notably of UK diplomat James Cross and Quebec Deputy Premier Pierre Laporte. In response the government used the War Measures Act to suspend civil liberties, which was felt to be considered so draconian that the period was known as the October Crisis. While James Cross was recovered alive, Laporte’s body was recovered from a trunk. From there the FLQ became so unpopular and so heavily infiltrated by government agents that it was reportedly stamped out by 1976.      

1. Inn Din

Southeastern Asia has often been a bit of a blind spot to Western nations. So in 2017 when more than 690,000 Rohingya Muslims fled from Bangladesh sought refuge in Myanmar, much of the rest of the World took little notice. In Bangladesh there was so much hostility towards them which was so officially sanctioned that the 2014 Bangladesh census did not include Rohingyas at all. It wasn’t until word of what paramilitary forces were inflicting on Rohingya that attention was paid. 

On September 1, 2018, ten men in a Rohingya community around Inn Din (a community on the northwestern coast of Myanmar) were imprisoned. They were forced to watch as their neighbors dug a mass grave, and then ten of them were executed and buried the next morning. The same paramilitary force that performed the mass murder then raided other Rohingya homes, stealing cattle and vehicles and burning down houses. The official story was that the people put to death were part of a 200-person terrorist group attacking the town of Inn Din, but local civilians denied that there was any such terrorist attack. In fact civilian witnesses reported that the ten people put to death had just been part of a group seeking shelter on a beach. Reports for Reuters looking into the attack was arrested for their efforts. Such is the horrifying danger facing refugees in places all around the world today, and what many of us who may be joining them in the future may look forward to. 

Dustin Koski highly recommends Jonathan “Bogleech” Wojcik’s novel Return of the Living, a story of Earth centuries after it’s been ghosted. 

As yet another September rolls by, people worldwide are reminded of the terror that shook the world 19 years ago. As is often the case, many commemorate this terrible event by sharing memories of where they were on what they thought would be just another ordinary workday.

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In my case, being from South Africa, I first heard the news while driving back from work on 11 September 2001 at around 4 pm. It was the first time I had heard of the towers and couldn’t make sense of the reports over the radio. Seeing the visuals on TV later, I remember not understanding why a pilot couldn’t see the massive towers right in front of him. Then, as reality dawned, I remember feeling as though the world had been changed in a way that could never be undone.

There have been many terrorist attacks after that infamous day, and just as on 9/11, many heroes have stepped up to save the lives of others, regardless of their own safety.

On this list are just some of their stories.

10 Mumbai Terrorist Attack

“It was my responsibility… I may have been the youngest person in the room, but I was still doing my job.”

On 26 November 2008, ten members of Lashkar-e-Taiba started a reign of terror in Mumbai that lasted four days. The gunmen travelled from Pakistan to Mumbai via boat, hijacking a fishing trawler on the way. They killed four crewmembers, slit the captain’s throat, and threw the bodies overboard. Once in Mumbai, they split into three groups, stormed several buildings, and started their killing spree with automatic weapons and grenades. By 29 November, more than 170 people were dead, over 300 wounded and 9 of the attackers were also dead. The lone surviving gunman was sentenced to death and executed on 21 November 2012.

One of the buildings attacked was the Taj Mahal Palace hotel. Alongside all the guests, there was a hosted dinner for Unilever directors and executives managed by around 35 Taj Mumbai employees. While serving the main course, loud bangs sounded up and those inside the restaurant initially thought they were hearing fireworks. However, staff very quickly realized something wasn’t right and the banquet manager, 24-year-old Mallika Jagad, instructed guests to lie down under the tables. She separated husbands and wives and urged them to refrain from using cell phones. While the rest of the hotel was ravaged by the terrorists, the group in the restaurant remained quiet and were looked after by hotel staff. The next morning, after a fire had started, guests were rescued by a fire crew.

Jagad later said that even though she was the youngest person in the room, she felt that she had to continue doing her job and her guests’ safety was her number one priority.

Her quick actions saved the lives of more than 60 people.^[1]

9 Pulse Gay Nightclub Shooting

“He helped so many people. My son! A hero!”

While patrons of Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, were having a great time dancing on 12 June 2016 they could never have predicted that the night would end in tragedy. 29-year-old security guard, Omar Mateen, entered the club and started shooting. He killed 49 people and wounded 53 others. Mateen was shot and killed after a three-hour stand-off with police and negotiators. During this time, he told one of the negotiators that he had perpetrated the attack in retaliation to the US killing of Abu Waheeb in Iraq. The FBI declared the incident a terrorist attack.

When the shooting began, there were many patrons and staff who stepped up and tried to save the lives of others with no concern for their own safety. One of these heroes was Imran Yousuf who was employed as a bouncer at Pulse. His Marine Corps training kicked in and he saved more than 60 people who had been trapped inside the building. Other heroes included Ray Rivera, Joshua McGill, and Christopher Hansen.

Hansen continued to help two people who had been injured and bleeding outside the club, while the shooting continued relentlessly inside. It was his first time at the club, and he never envisioned the night ending with him taking off his bandana and using it to stop the bleeding of a man who had been shot in the back. He also helped a woman who had a gunshot wound to the arm and promised to stay with her until paramedics could get to her.

Hansen’s father later wrote on Facebook: “I am so proud of my son. Both as a man, and as a gay man. He helped so many people. My son! A hero! Amongst all the tragedy, helping others.”^[2]

8 French Terrorist Attack

“He was concentrating on me; in that moment he could not kill people.”

Just over a month after the Orlando tragedy, terror struck again, this time in Nice, France. There were crowds of people celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais on 14 July 2016, when a 19-tonne cargo truck drove straight into them. The truck was driven by Mohamed Lahouaej-Bouhlel, a Tunisian who had a residence in France. The attack cost the lives of 86 people with a further 458 injured. Lahouaej-Bouhlel was shot and killed by police and the Islamic State afterwards claimed responsibility for the attack.

Just before the tragedy, a local airport worker named Franck Terrier was on his motorcycle on the way to the promenade to meet up with his son. His wife was with him and they stopped to get some ice-cream. At this point the truck sped past him and Franck saw the vehicle driving into people. Thinking about his son who was at the end of the promenade, Franck jumped on his motorcycle and started chasing the truck. He leaped off the bike, clung to the side of the truck door and started hitting Lahouaej-Bouhlel over the head and in the face as hard as he could. The attacker tried to shoot at Franck, but the gun wouldn’t go off. He then hit him with the gun and Franck fell from the side of the truck, breaking a rib.

Franck said afterwards that he was pleased that he was able to distract the attacker from killing more people as he was only focused on getting him off the truck. Franck and another hero, Gwenaël Leriche, received medals from the City of Nice for trying to stop the terrorist.^[3]

7 Boston Marathon Bombing

“I know exactly when my life changed: when I looked into the face of Tamerlan Tsarnaev.”

When two pressure cooker bombs detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on 15 April 2013, there was instant confusion and panic. Three people were killed, hundreds injured, and 17 people lost limbs. As people tried to escape, several heroes emerged who did their best to help them as well as assist those who had been injured.

Carlos Arredondo, Devin Wang, and Paul Mitchell rushed an injured Jeff Bauman from the scene and were later credited with helping to save his life after he suffered traumatic injuries. Bauman, who lost both of his legs, helped to identify one of the brothers responsible for the bombings.

Many of the runners who were near the explosion ran on to help victims, despite having just run 26 miles and being exhausted. Some ran to Mass General Hospital to donate blood. Dr. Allan Panter was at the finish line, waiting for his wife to finish the race when the blast happened. He immediately ran to an injured woman, keeping her airway open until paramedics got there. He helped several other victims and controlled the bleeding from their wounds.^[4]

6 Berlin Terrorist Attack

2016 was a year of heightened Islamist terrorist activity in Europe with attacks in Brussels, Nice, Germany, and Normandy. Six days before Christmas, the Christmas market next to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin was buzzing with visitors. This market is one of over 70 in Berlin where tourists can purchase various arts and crafts.

Suddenly there was a commotion and people looked up from their perusing to see a large truck headed straight towards them. The driver was Anis Amri, a failed asylum seeker, who had shot and killed the truck’s original driver Lukasz Urban. Urban’s body was in the passenger seat. Amri launched the truck into the crowd, killing 12 people and leaving 56 injured.

Luca Scata, a rookie Milan policeman who had joined the force just nine months earlier, faced off with Amri in Italy four days later. Scata and his partner asked to search Amri’s backpack when he told them he didn’t have any identity documents. Amri pulled out a gun and shot Scata’s partner in the shoulder. Scata immediately fired back at Amri, killing him.

At the time, Amri was considered Europe’s most wanted man, and Scata was hailed a hero.^[5]

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5 Nairobi Terrorist Attack

“What he did was so heroic… he went back in 12 times and saved 100 people”

On 21 September 2013, the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya was buzzing with the usual shopper activity. The busy but peaceful atmosphere was shattered when a group of masked gunmen stormed the mall and started shooting and throwing grenades. The aftermath saw part of the mall collapse in a fire, 71 deaths and 200 injured people. The attack lasted several hours, and responsibility was claimed by al-Shabaab who said it was in retribution for the deployment of Kenyan soldiers in Somalia.

After the attack, an unnamed former Royal Marine was hailed as a hero when it emerged that he saved at least 100 people from the attack with only a handgun for protection. The ex-soldier was at the mall with friends when around 13 attackers began shooting at random. The man led several shoppers to safety, going back into the mall 12 times to ensure he could help as many people as possible.

He remains unnamed for security reasons.^[6]

4 Ariana Grande Concert Attack

“I ran into the bomb. I still don’t know to this day why I did it.”

Excitement was in the air in Manchester on the evening of 22 May 2017. Fans of Ariana Grande couldn’t wait for her long-anticipated Manchester Arena concert to begin. The concert was all they hoped it would be and around 14,000 fans were preparing, reluctantly, to leave the arena after the show ended.

At that point, a homemade bomb stuffed full of shrapnel, went off, killing 23 people and wounding more than 800. 22-year-old Salman Ramadan Abedi had detonated the bomb and was killed in the blast.

There were many children at the venue, along with their parents. Daren Buckley had been at the show with his son, Lewis, whom he ensured was safe after the blast. He then ran back to where the explosion had taken place and grabbed nearby t-shirts that had been on sale, to try and stem the blood loss of the wounded. Buckley continued to assist wherever he could until police arrived to secure the area. Afterwards he simply stated that he ran into the bomb but still doesn’t know why.

There is currently an ongoing public enquiry into the bombing with issues being explored such as security arrangements, planning and preparation by Abedi and his brother, emergency response and whether the attack could have been prevented.^[7]

3 Paris Siege

“He was calm and in charge.”

On 13 November 2015 Paris found itself under siege when a group of gunmen and suicide bombers hit six locations almost simultaneously, leaving 130 people dead and hundreds wounded. Explosions shook the Stade de France stadium and a fast-food outlet nearby. Attacks unfolded at popular nightlife spots around the same time. Around 12,000 emergency, health, military, and security workers responded to the ambush.

While an attack was being carried out at the Bataclan concert hall, 35-year-old Algerian security guard Didi rushed to the scene to help concert goers escape. When interviewed afterwards, Didi said that he knew he had to get as many people to safety as he could, because “these terrorists have come to kill as many people as they can.”

He followed the gunmen inside and started opening doors for people to escape through. He yelled for people to follow him to the exits. Those who followed Didi’s lead later told news reporters that the security guard was ‘calm and in charge’ and that ‘we felt secure and knew we’d be safe with him.’

Didi was awarded French citizenship in 2016.^[8]

2 Unsung Heroes

On 7 July 2005, London would forevermore be changed by a series of terrorist attacks perpetrated by four suicide bombers carrying rucksacks filled with explosives. They detonated 3 bombs on Underground trains and one on a double-decker bus during morning rush hour traffic. 52 people died and hundreds were injured. The bombers all died during the attacks.

Tremendous courage was shown by unsung heroes in the aftermath of the atrocities. One of them helped a gravely injured John Tulloch stay awake by chatting about their respective children. Cp Capt Craig Staniforth ensured that Tulloch didn’t drift off to sleep as his head injuries would probably have meant he wouldn’t wake up again.

Suhel Boodi, who’d never done CPR, tried desperately to save 29-year-old Laura Webb by following the instructions of a fellow commuter. Another hero, Steven Desborough, comforted Carrie Taylor in her last minutes, while encouraging others who had been trapped beneath debris. Teacher Tim Coulson also tried to save Michael Brewster, smashing his way out of a carriage to reach the man.^[9]

1 9/11

“Stop crying. I have to get these people out safely.”

After the towers came down on 11 September 2001, controversy bloomed. Dozens of conspiracy theories of ‘inside jobs’ and ‘explosions, not planes’ swirled the internet. Some conspiracy theorists are still looking for evidence that the Pentagon was hit by a missile and speculating about the “missing debris” of United Airlines flight 93.

However, this doesn’t overshadow the fact that nearly three thousand people lost their lives that day and that several heroes stepped up to help during one of the darkest events in US history.

24-year-old Welles Crowther (pictured) left his mother a voicemail saying that he was ok. After ending the call, he made his way to the injured. He carried a woman down 15 floors to safety and went back up to the 78th floor sky lobby to assist firefighters. His body was recovered later in a stairwell alongside some of the firefighters and a rescue tool.

Two former US Marines, Jason Thomas and Dave Karnes, got back into their uniforms to search the rubble for survivors. They found two people still alive.
On American Airlines Flight 11, two flight attendants stayed as calm as they could and relayed information that eventually helped the FBI determine that the terrorists were al- Qaeda.

Soldier and police officer, Rick Rescorla, sang songs to keep people calm during evacuations. He was head of security for Morgan Stanley which was based in the South Tower and has been credited for saving more than 2,700 lives. He was last seen on the 10th floor of the South Tower after calling his wife and telling her that she needed to stop crying because he had to get the people inside the tower to safety. He also told his wife that she made his life and that he’d never been happier.

Rescorla’s body was never found.^[10]

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