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Trump honors 9/11 first responders with new Coast Guard cutter and Presidential Medal of Freedom

By Mabinty Quarshie
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President Donald Trump honored two fallen American heroes who died during the September 11 terrorist attacks during a Tuesday morning speech at the White House Ellipse.

Trump announced that the Coast Guard will commission a fast-response cutter named for Jeffrey Palazzo, a Coast Guard reservist and New York City firefighter. The president also announced a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom award to Welles Crowther, an equities trader and a volunteer firefighter who saved 18 people before losing his life on Sept. 11, 2001.

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