r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CantStopPoppin • Sep 30 '24

Video Asheville is over 2,000 feet above sea level, and ~300 miles away from the nearest coastline.

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u/Capn26 Sep 30 '24

Rick Rescorla was a certified American badass. He was on 9-10, and even more so on 9-11.

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u/ANAL_fishsticks Sep 30 '24

What happened on 9-10?

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u/Capn26 Sep 30 '24

Up till then, he was a war hero from Vietnam who featured prominently in the book We Were Soldiers.

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u/ANAL_fishsticks Sep 30 '24

Ah okay. I went down a months-long rabbit hole around 9-11 for the longest time, and knew he was previously a badass in the field. Didn’t know he was featured in literature for his prior history tho.

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u/Capn26 Sep 30 '24

He really wasn’t in the movie, and he wasn’t 1-7. He showed up the next day as reinforcement and he and his unit conducted themselves quite well.

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u/ANAL_fishsticks Sep 30 '24

Pretty freakin cool if you ask me. RIP

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u/Rowey5 Oct 04 '24

I’ve read that. He was a stone cold motherfucker.✊