There are many stories from survivors regarding events during September 11, 2011.  Survivors from the World Trade Center, spoke about a man in a red bandanna who helped them get out.  Welles Crowther's mother was reading survivor stories in the newspaper, about a couple of survivors that stated they were saved by a man in a red bandanna. She immediately knew that this man was her son.

She sent the survivors photos of her son, and they all agreed that Welles was the man that saved them. Welles fell back on his firefighter training, took charge, and guided them out. Welles then went back up into the tower and helped more people get out. Unfortunately, he lost his own life.

Welles Crowther touched many lives. His friend, John Howells always carries with him, now, a red bandana, and hopes his children grow up with the courage of his friend.

His friend John states, "He could have taken the easy way out. There are a lot of situations in everybody's life where you can take the easy way out. You can just go with the flow and you can do what everybody else was doing — everybody else was running out of the building. He really listened to his gut. And was a hero for it. So I kind of look at it from that standpoint, I think all of us could do that a little bit more and make more of an impact in the world."