Emergency Responder Heroes on 9/11

The next example of sacrifice as a way of life is not about a single individual, but the host of courageous men and women who responded to the brutal Islamist suicide attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001. More than 91,000 rescue, recovery and clean-up workers, and volunteers were ultimately involved in responding to this national tragedy over the months after it occurred.

Unlike so many others that fateful day who fled away in panic at these unprecedented and unexpected attacks, these men and women ran towards the danger to help others, and in so doing sacrificed their own lives while trying to save the lives of others, the vast majority of whom they did not personally know.