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12voltman59
Jan 10, 2012, 1:16 PM
On one of the boating sites I go to----someone posted a link to this story--actually a link to a 12 minute documentary video, narrated by Tom Hanks about an untold aspect of the aftermath of the attacks on the Trade Towers on 9/11---that the boating community of the New York area came together in a spontaneous effort to get people away from the island of Manhattan.

It makes me proud to call myself a boater when I see things of this nature--I know that if I had been around the area then--I sure as hell would have put whatever boat I had in the service of this effort too.

Go to the link and watch this great video---it is just shy of 12 minutes in length.

http://blogs.reuters.com/katharine-herrup/2011/09/09/boatlifters-the-unknown-story-of-911/

Realist
Jan 12, 2012, 8:53 AM
One of the channels, a while back, did a piece about all of the help that private boaters, waterfront firemen, even ferries, etc, etc, did during this time. There are so many heart rending stories of that day....and we will probably only know a fraction of them.