Tom Rinaldi, "The Red Bandana"

Welles Crowther, who worked on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center’s South Tower, was one of many who disappeared on 9/11. But when his mother read a news story eight months later about a man who had carried a woman down twenty flights of stairs shortly after the attack, she knew what had happened to her son. In this moving tribute to an ordinary man of extraordinary courage and selflessness, Rinaldi, the award-winning ESPN national correspondent, looks back over Crowther’s life, recounting his experiences as a volunteer firefighter in Upper Nyack and celebrating his close bond with his father, who, when Welles was a boy, gave him the red handkerchief witnesses saw in his back pocket when Crowther turned to go back up the stairs on September 11.

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