Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d

Eleven years ago, a gang of obscurantist barbarians murdered several thousand people.

The mass murder occurred largely in New York, and partly in Pennsylvania and in Washington DC. Most of the dead were Americans. But not all.

A former British Para born in Cornwall – by 11 September 2001 a naturalised American citizen and former United States Army officer – CR ‘Rick’ Rescorla, the World Trade Centre security chief, gave his life in rescuing others. Thousands of others.

On 11 September 2001, as t...