Behind the Badge
Sept. 11 attacks inspire officer to ‘make sure it never happens again’
0He’ll always remember the acid taste of the air, the blank looks of devastation on the faces of people combing through rubble looking for loved ones — and the sight of bodies plummeting from upper floors. There in the swirl of chaos and dust in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Center, Bradley Saunders’ life was utterly and irrevocably changed. Not broken, but fundamentally shifted. He calls it the start of his second life. A successful executive at Morgan Stanley at the time, Saunders was at the base of the World Trade Center…
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Editor’s note: The OCSD issued the following news release Dec. 3, 2019: STANTON, Calif. (Dec. 3, 2019) – The Orange…