"Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. --George W. Bush
Monday, 22 August 2011
The Man Who Predicted 9/11
Rick Rescorla was a retired United States Army officer of British birth. In the 1980's Rick became security chief of the World Trade Center for the financial services firm Morgan Stanley, Rick anticipated both attacks on the towers and implemented evacuation procedures that are credited with saving many lives. He died in the attacks of September 11th 2001, while leading the evacuation efforts.
Rick had most of Morgan Stanley's 2700 employees as well as people working on other floors of tower two safely out of the building by the time United Airlines Flight 175 hit at 9.02 a.m This documentary shows Rick Rescorla's predictions of 9/11 and his actions that saved over 2700 people but subsequently lost his own life in doing so.....
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