From 9.11 to the Alamo

This retired New York City fireman became a hero himself when he stood at Ground Zero on 9.11 and helped victims of the terrorist attacks of the World Trade Center Towers. But William Groneman III has for 30 years been fascinated by another American Hero: David Crockett. “I can look on the real Crockett as a hero—the common man who made good, captured the imagination of a country, and ultimately sacrificed his life,” he wrote in a 2002 article in Roundup magazine, published by Western W