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TIL Rick Rescorla, a Vietnam vet and 9/11 hero, evacuated 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees from the WTC after predicting such an attack years earlier. He saved nearly all of them, then went back to ... (en.wikipedia.org)
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Original Title: TIL Rick Rescorla, a Vietnam vet and 9/11 hero, evacuated 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees from the WTC after predicting such an attack years earlier. He saved nearly all of them, then went back to help more and died when the tower collapsed.

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