On the morning of September 11, 2001, Welles Remy Crowther was at his desk on the 104th floor of the South Tower in the World Trade Center when the first plane hit. He immediately called his mother to let her know that he was okay.
When the second plane crashed into the South Tower, his parents knew the worst had happened. What they didn’t know at the time was that their son heroically saved the lives of at least a dozen strangers.
According to the survivors recounts, Welles risked his life more than once to help others to safety. “If he hadn’t come back, I wouldn’t have made it,” one of those survivors, Judy Rein, told CNN. “People can live 100 years and not have the compassion, the wherewithal, to do what he did.”
Watch this touching story of Welles, who began wearing his trademark red bandanna when he was a little boy, and would be seen wearing it again, when he became a hero.
Here is a full documentary of his story.
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