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@EllaFrei17 You go GIRL!!!!

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@Lexibexiio I’m so very sorry

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@EdMarkey You and @SenWarren must have missed school when the words illegal and temporary were taught as neither one of you get it!

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@capecodtimes Nothing but fraudsters. I worked with one who owned 2 homes with rental income, received government subsidies for her housing and her children were enrolled in private school. Yes I dropped a dime and it fell on deaf ears!!!!

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@MrPitbull07 I love you guys!!!!!

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For 8 years, people at Morgan Stanley called Rick Rescorla paranoid.

Then September 11th proved he was right.

Rick was a decorated Vietnam veteran who became Head of Security for Morgan Stanley at the World Trade Center.

In 1990, he walked through the underground parking garage and quietly warned:

“Someone could park a truck bomb here and bring this whole place down.”

Executives dismissed the concern as excessive.

Then came February 26, 1993.

A truck bomb exploded in the World Trade Center parking garage almost exactly where Rick predicted.

Six people died.
Over 1,000 were injured.

The evacuation was chaos.

Rick watched terrified employees stumble through smoke-filled stairwells for hours with no real preparation.

Afterward, he made a decision.

Morgan Stanley employees would practice evacuation drills every three months.

All 2,700 of them.

No exceptions.

People hated it.

The company occupied floors 44 through 74 of the South Tower.

That’s a very long walk down when you have meetings, deadlines, and places to be.

Employees complained constantly.

“He’s obsessed.”
“This is unnecessary.”
“He’s paranoid.”

Rick didn’t care.

He timed every evacuation.
Studied bottlenecks.
Adjusted routes.
Ran the drills again.

And during the drills, he sang old military songs to keep people calm while they descended the stairwells.

For 8 years, people rolled their eyes at him.

Then came September 11, 2001.

8:46 a.m.

The North Tower was hit.

An announcement in the South Tower told people to remain at their desks because the building was secure.

Rick ignored it.

He grabbed a bullhorn and ordered:

“Everyone out. Now.”

Then he personally directed employees through the stairwells floor by floor.

And he sang.

The same songs people once mocked during drills suddenly became the sound keeping frightened people calm as they escaped.

At 9:03 a.m., the South Tower was struck.

Rick was still inside helping people evacuate.

His coworkers begged him to leave.

He refused.

“As soon as everyone’s out.”

By 9:45 a.m., nearly all 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees had escaped safely.

Rick could have saved himself.

Instead, he turned around and went back up.

Searching for anyone left behind.

Before the tower collapsed, he called his wife one final time.

“If something happens to me, I want you to know you made my life.”

At 9:59 a.m., the South Tower collapsed with Rick still inside.

Final numbers:

Morgan Stanley employees inside that morning:
~2,700

Survived:
~2,687

Most of the 13 lost were in the direct impact zone where no evacuation could have reached them in time.

Rick Rescorla died alongside members of his security team while trying to save others.

But here’s the important part:

Rick didn’t save those people on September 11th.

He saved them for 8 years before it happened.

He saved them every time he forced another evacuation drill.
Every time people mocked him.
Every time he prepared anyway.

The coworkers who thought he was paranoid went home to their families because one man refused to stop taking danger seriously.

Sometimes preparation looks ridiculous until the day it looks like survival.

And sometimes the people everyone dismisses are the only ones truly paying attention.

Rick Rescorla died in the stairwell doing what he had trained for nearly a decade.

And thousands of ordinary lives continued because he never stopped preparing for the day nobody believed would come.

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Dr Elisabeth Potter, a plastic surgeon for cancer patients in Texas calls for healthcare reform in America

While in the middle of a surgery, UnitedHealthcare called the Operating Room and made her to exit surgery to justify an overnight stay for her patient

Dr Potter made a social social media video saying out insane this is and UnitedHealthcare threatened her

UnitedHealthcare sent her a 6-page legal letter from a defamation firm. It demanded she:

- Remove the posts and videos
- Issue a public apology
- Retract her statements claiming she lied
- They accused her posts of “fomenting violence” due to angry public comments against insurers

Dr. Potter is pushing for the Speak Free Act legislation to protect healthcare workers from retaliation when they speak out about systemic issues in patient care

We must DEMAND healthcare reform in this country. It’s only going to get worse because of big health insurance carriers

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@WCVB @DavidMuir thought you’d like to know this, a wonderful send off.

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@BhattiLaib9960 Harriett

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@Ilegvm Can totally relate to the cul de sac!!!

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@JayJarboe2 @TaraBull Catastrophic!

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@WCVB No safer city than Boston according to it’s Mayor.

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@AmericaFirsst 👍

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@writerdiehl @markjohnoneill That’s what my 10-year old lab was diagnosed with. Same as your dog, dropped to the floor. A splenectomy was done on Monday he died on Saturday.

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@markjohnoneill Went through the same with my 10-year old lab. Had the splenectomy on Monday, he died the following Saturday. I am sorry for your loss.

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@PatriciaHeaton Thank you for saying this. It’s unfortunate that it needs to be said.

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@DaveKent101 Too many times but I can’t not have a dog or 2 or 3 to love. I am sorry for your loss.

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@TheKuhnerReport No surprise

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@gervaisclips Love RG tough love!

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@rickygervais Would love to ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️as many times as possible!