To those workers’ great fortune, one of their leaders was a big man in a pinstripe suit named Rick Rescorla, Morgan Stanley’s vice president of corporate security. At sixty-two, Rick Rescorla had spent a lifetime honing his innate gift for knowing the best response to danger. His exploits as a platoon leader in Vietnam were the stuff of legend, featured in the book We Were Soldiers Once … and Young. He appeared on the book’s cover, a bayonet fixed on his M-16, an iconic image of a warrior moving forward. Rescorla had spent the previous eight years feeling certain that the 1993 bombing was only
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