The Red Bandanna: A life, A Choice, A Legacy

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A New York Times bestseller What would you do in the last hour of your life?
The story of Welles Crowther, whose actions on 9/11 offer a lasting lesson on
character, calling and courage One Sunday morning before church, when Welles
Crowther was a young boy, his father gave him a red handkerchief for his back
pocket. Welles kept it with him that day, and just about every day to come; it
became a fixture and his signature. A standout athlete growing up in Upper
Nyack, NY, Welles was also a volunteer at the local fire department, along
with his father. He cherished the necessity and the camaraderie, the meaning
of the role. Fresh from college, he took a Wall Street job on the 104th floor
of the South Tower of the World Trade Center, but the dream of becoming a
firefighter with the FDNY remained. When the Twin Towers fell, Welles’s
parents had no idea what happened to him. In the unbearable days that
followed, they came to accept that he would never come home. But the mystery
of his final hours persisted. Eight months after the attacks, however,
Welles’s mother read a news account from several survivors, badly hurt on the
78th floor of the South Tower, who said they and others had been led to safety
by a stranger, carrying a woman on his back, down nearly twenty flights of
stairs. After leading them down, the young man turned around. “I’m going back
up,” was all he said. The survivors didn’t know his name, but despite the
smoke and panic, one of them remembered a single detail clearly: the man was
wearing a red bandanna. Tom Rinaldi’s The Red Bandanna is about a fearless
choice, about a crucible of terror and the indomitable spirit to answer it.
Examining one decision in the gravest situation, it celebrates the difference
one life can make. Read more

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Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Press; Illustrated edition (September 6, 2016)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1594206775
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 71
• Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1000L
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.4 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.88 x 0.78 x 8.5 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #142,625 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #38 in Philanthropy & Charity (Books) #2,859 in Motivational Self-Help (Books) #3,269 in Personal Transformation Self-Help
• #38 in Philanthropy & Charity (Books)