Shortly after ten-thirty a.m., the president of the United States stepped to the lectern, dressed in a black suit and tie. Families and firefighters, city officials and rescue workers, orphans and political leaders, they waited for the solemn ceremony to begin. Together they met: strong and weak, mournful and hopeful, persistent and diminished. On a bright spring morning, while flags flew at half-staff in the memorial plaza far above, some seven hundred had made the long descent to gather in this chamber. Seven stories below the ground, seventy feet deep in the earth, they sat. (Courtesy Chuck Platz) Book Excerpt: 'The Red Bandanna' (Courtesy The Crowther Family) Crowther in his New York City apartment. Lower Manhattan and the World Trade Center towers are visible in the background. (Courtesy of The Crowther Family) Crowther stands with Harry Wanaker, a lieutenant in the Nyack Fire Department. (Courtesy of The Crowther Family) Crowther and his father before his graduation from Boston College in 1999. (Courtesy of The Crowther Family) Crowther as a child, wearing his trademark red bandanna. More Photos Crowther as a young child, standing next to a toy fire truck.
11, 2001, one young man led several people down the stairs to safety after a plane hit the south tower of the World Trade Center. (Courtesy of The Crowther Family) This article is more than 4 years old. Welles Crowther at his graduation from Boston College in 1999.
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