Tuesday, September 11, 2007
The September 11 post: The man in the red bandanna
Longtime readers know that my step-cousin, Welles Crowther, died six years ago today because he put the lives of people he did not know before his own. Each year on this date I have written a post about Welles, but the blogger Smooth Stone has done such a wonderful job my own poor effort would pale in comparison. Please read the story, and please do not forget.
8 Comments:
By 
Smooth, at
Tue Sep 11, 08:38:00 PM:
Hi TigerHawk,
Thank you for your kind words. It is an honor to keep Welles Crowther's memory alive and I will continue to do so as long as I have a forum to speak from. Welles will never be forgotten.
By 
, at
Tue Sep 11, 09:50:00 PM:
This was posted about a year ago, but here's a link to a WNBC segment about Welles Crowther, including interviews with his parents and Ling Young, one of the people he saved (mention in the Smooth Stone post):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zjMzIfsDPds
By , at
Tue Sep 11, 10:29:00 PM:
Here also is a newly-created Wikipedia entry on Welles Crowther. People more knowledgeable about him should, of course, correct and expand it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welles_Crowther
By Miss Ladybug, at
Tue Sep 11, 10:38:00 PM:
TH~
I did not realize (or had forgotten) that The Man in the Red Banadana was a relation of yours. I recall hearing stories of his actions in the days following the terrorist attacks. My condolences to you and the rest of his family.
By , at
Wed Sep 12, 01:17:00 AM:
Back afew years before 9/11/01 a radical bunch of left-wing black rap group put out a CD called PARTY MUSIC the front showed the leader of them pushing a device on his guitar and the WTC is seen exploding in the background
By , at
Wed Sep 12, 03:29:00 AM:
By antithaca, at
Wed Sep 12, 10:20:00 AM:
By , at
Wed Sep 12, 02:01:00 PM:
That is so heartbreaking to read, but it's also tremendously inspirational. I'm not a particularly religious person, and go back and forth on the idea of there being an afterlife, but I know that if there is an afterlife then Welles Crowther lives on in a place of special honor.
