Welles Crowther was a former Boston College lacrosse player and a New York City firefighter who carried a red bandanna.
On September 11, 2001, Welles ran into the World Trade Center to rescue those in need.
25 years later, his life and legacy endure with one of the most powerful traditions in sports, BC's Red Bandanna Game ❤️
I reread this every year.
I cry like a baby every year.
Todd Beamer died a father, husband, and hero.
Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.
Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?
Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.
Lisa: Your name?Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.
Lisa: Are you okay?
Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.
Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?
Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.
Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.
Lisa: I promise.
Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.
Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)
Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.
Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.
Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.
Lisa: What are you going to do?
Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.
Todd: Would you pray with me?They pray the Lord’s Prayer. Then: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
Todd: God help me. Jesus help me.Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.
This will go down as the most heart wrenching clip of the year.
Johnny Gaudreau gets to look down from heaven and see his kids celebrate a gold medal w/ Team USA and his parents soak it in from the stands.
That hockey brotherhood is special 🙏🏼
🚨AMAZING STORY🚨
Seattle #Seahawks pass rusher Derick Hall was born at 23 weeks with no heartbeat and his doctors told his mother he only had a 1% chance of surviving.
Hall’s mother refused to take him off life support and he just had a SACK in the Super Bowl.
Unbelievable.
Times change. This choice – this harder choice – does not.
Those who make it do so not because it was easy. Not because they wanted praise. But because that’s who they are.
Today, the 126th Army-Navy Game honors all who have made that choice.
The first annual Gaudreau Family 5k raised over $500,000. The money will be used to build an adaptive playground at Archbishop Damiano School, where both Jane and Kristen Gaudreau work. Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau used to volunteer at the school during their free time.
NEW: High school graduates answer questions from their sixth-grade selves.
Graduates from McCallie School, located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, sat down to answer questions from ... themselves.
The video amassed a whopping 37 million views & 8.5 million likes on TikTok.
This is so cool.