Richard Allen Pearlman was eighteen years old when he was killed in the collapse of the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Pearlman has the sad distinction of being the youngest first responder killed on that terrible Tuesday morning. He was a member of the Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps and was training to become a EMT.
He worked as an office clerk for an attorney in Queens. On September 11, 2001, he was running an errand at 1 Police Plaza in lower Manhattan and when all hell broke loose, he ran over to the scene to help tend to the injured. He was doing so when the South Tower collapsed, killing him.
He had always told his mom, Dori, he wanted to be an EMT because he wanted to save the world. On the final day of his life, he died doing just that. Mission accomplished, young man. Mission accomplished.
-AK
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