Family of 9/11 hero honored by President Trump

By NBC News

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President Trump posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Welles Crowther, an equities trader and volunteer fireman who rescued 18 people from the south tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, before being killed when the building collapsed.

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