Red Bandanna

A Red Bandanna....

This is a short story of the 9/11 tragedy!  It really touched my heart because we love our little boys sooo much and want them to grow up safe and to help others!
 Crowther once a volunteer fire fighter at one time didn't hestitate to help injured and disoriented people to safety, risking his own life in the process. Though they couldn't see much through the haze,  he saved many and they said  a tall figure wearing a red bandana to shield his lungs and mouth helped us.
He had come down to the 78th-floor sky lobby, an alcove in the building with express elevators meant to speed up trips to the ground floor. He directed survivors to the stairway and encouraged them to help others while he carried an injured woman on his back.
One of the women he helped credits him with saving her life.
"If he hadn't come back, I wouldn't have made it,"  "People can live 100 years and not have the compassion, to do what he did."  Though Crowther saved at least a dozen lives that day, his identity remained unknown for some time, even to those he helped. His family — his mother Alison, his father Jefferson and his sisters Paige and Honor — did not know exactly what happened in the hour before he died.
Times interviewed the survivors who made it down from the highest floors alive. In it, eyewitnesses described the figure with a red bandana:

A mysterious man appeared at one point, his mouth and nose covered with a red handkerchief. He was looking for a fire extinguisher. As Judy Wein recalls, he pointed to the stairs and made an announcement that saved lives: Anyone who can walk, get up and walk now. Anyone who can perhaps help others, find someone who needs help and then head down.

A few minutes behind this group was Ling Young, who also survived the impact in the sky lobby. She, too, said she had been steered by the man in the red bandanna, hearing him call out: "This way to the stairs." 

Alison Crowther, knowing he always carried a red bandana in his pocket, sent photographs of her son who it was confirmed that Welles was indeed the man who had saved them.
"Everything we shared — all the details — led right to Welles, so it was really beautiful,"
The family later learned that Welles' body had been recovered with other firefighters with the FDNY. They had been on their way back up the stairs of the South Tower with the "Jaws of Life," likely to help other survivors to safety.
Gone, but never forgotten. Crowther's selfless act of heroism became a symbol of perseverance, of courage and of hope in the aftermath of 9/11.
"A young man, in his 20s, strong, emerged from the smoke and, over his nose and his mouth, he wore a red handkerchief, "He led those survivors down the stairs to safety and yes he carried a woman on his shoulders down 17 flights, and then he went back.
                                                                                             For Sure A Hero!