Tag Archives: Rick Rescorla

When about thirty members of my OCS class returned to Fort Benning in 2003, for the first time since our graduation in 1968, there was an OCS Association ceremony in the new OCS complex dedicating a newly-planted tree to former Army colonel and Vietnam veteran Rick Rescorla. He had died saving 2,700 people at the World Trade Center on 9/11. The speaker, a friend of his, broke down in the middle of his talk. Then he wiped away his tears and continued. Today there’s a statue of Rescorla at Fort Benning, and a campaign to get him a posthumous Medal of Freedom. Story and petition here. Profile of Rescorla (and picture of the statue at the bottom) here.