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Trump Awards Medal of Freedom to Welles Crowther, the ‘Man in the Red Bandanna’

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Welles Remy Crowther, an equity trader and volunteer firefighter, is credited with saving 18 people at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 before being killed

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Trump Awards Medal of Freedom to Welles Crowther, the ‘Man in the Red Bandanna’

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