Americanism Award presented to 9/11 survivor Don Bacso
American Legion Post 369 in East Chicago recently awarded Don Bacso, a 9/11 survivor, its Americanism Award for 2014.
On September 11, 2001 Bacso was working as a computer consultant in the World Trade Center’s twin towers. He was supposed to be in New York for one week, having arrived September 10. By the afternoon of September 12, he was driving home in a rental car after having survived the collapse of the twin towers following commercial airplane crashes into both buildings by terrorists.
