Trump Posthumously Awards ‘Man in the Red Bandana’ the Presidential Medal of Freedom

​President Donald Trump revealed on May 22 that he will posthumously award 9/11 hero Welles Crowther, commonly referred to as the “Man in the Red Bandana,” the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Trump announced the award during a speech in front of Crowther’s mother and sisters on Friday in Suffern, New York, the same county where the heroic New Yorker served as a volunteer firefighter for Nyack Fire Department before he went to college and worked in New York City. The 24-year-old, who was employed as an equities trader on the 104th floor of the South Tower, died after saving the lives of at least 18 people during the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001....