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At rally, Trump announces posthumous Medal of Freedom award to 9/11 hero Welles Crowther
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President Donald Trump told a rally crowd in New York that 9/11 hero Welles Crowther would soon be posthumously honored with the Medal of Freedom.
Crowther, then a 24-year-old equities trader, made it out of the World Trade Center many times, but he kept going back in to guide others out of the blinding smoke, doing so breathing through a red bandana placed over his nose and mouth. He has been credited with saving as many as 18 people.
During the Trump rally, his mother Alison Crowther addressed her son’s heroism, too.
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