Trump Honors 9/11 Victims at the Ellipse, Pledging to ‘Never Forget’
Trump honored 9/11 victims and first responders, and the event featured a 16,900-pound World Trade Center steel beam and a Medal of Freedom award.
- On Tuesday, President Donald Trump honored FDNY first responders at the White House, posthumously awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Welles Crowther, the 24-year-old volunteer firefighter known as the "Man in the Red Bandana."
- The ceremony marked the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, featuring a 21-foot, 16,900-pound steel beam from the South Tower displayed on the White House Ellipse as part of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation's 'Steel Across America' tour.
- Crowther guided survivors from the South Tower's 78th-floor sky lobby, making three trips to save as many people as he could before the building collapsed, according to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
- Trump also announced the Coast Guard will commission a new fast-response cutter named for Jeffrey Palazzo, an FDNY Rescue Squad 5 member and Coast Guard reservist killed at the World Trade Center.
- As the nation marks the 25th anniversary on Friday, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation aims to deliver 343 mortgage-free homes this year, honoring every firefighter who perished in the Twin Towers.
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ABC, CBS Skip President Trump Awarding Posthumous Medal of Freedom to 9/11 Hero Screenshot via NBC/Snapstream Ahead of the Republican midterm convention, President Trump held a moving event at the White House Ellipse to honor those murdered nearly 25 years ago on September 11, 2001, by radical Islamic terrorists. As part of that, he awarded a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom to Welles Crowther, the man known as “the man in the red bandan…
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