Rick Rescorla
War hero, and victim and hero of 9/11 (1939–2001) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cyril Richard Rescorla (May 27, 1939 – September 11, 2001) was a British-American soldier, police officer, educator and private security specialist. He served as a British Army paratrooper during the Cyprus Emergency and a commissioned officer in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. He rose to the rank of colonel in the Army before entering the private sector, where he worked in corporate security.
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Birth name | Cyril Richard Rescorla |
Born | (1939-05-27)May 27, 1939[1] Hayle, Cornwall, United Kingdom |
Died | September 11, 2001(2001-09-11) (aged 62) South Tower, World Trade Center, New York City |
Cause of death | Collapse of 2 World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks |
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Known for | Evacuation efforts during the September 11 attacks. |
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As the director of security for the financial services firm Morgan Stanley at the World Trade Center,[3] Rescorla anticipated attacks on the towers and implemented evacuation procedures that were credited with saving thousands of lives.[4] He died during the attacks of September 11, 2001, going back to help evacuate more people in the South Tower after he had organized the evacuation of the Morgan Stanley offices.