TO SAFETY in Postcards 4

  • Sept. 11, 2021, 12:07 p.m.
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There were hero’s everywhere that day. One traffic chopper remained in the air with a police copter. The bridges and tunnels were closed, but hundreds of boats crowded the waters of New York harbor bringing over 500,000 people to safety in nine hours.


I WAS THERE from YouTube:

BOATLIFT:

From the November 2001 issue of the WORKBOAT: https://www.workboat.com/coastal-inland-waterways/remembering-9/11-calling-all-boat–20-years-later?utm_source=marketo&r&mkt_tok

From THE HILL: https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/217322-remembering-the-heroes-of-the-9-11-boatlift

RESCUE AT WATERS EDGE:

9/11 UNTOLD STORIES:

THE JOHN J. HARVEY ON 9/11: https://www.1931fireboat.org/index.php/11-sep-2001


Last updated September 15, 2021


Oswego September 11, 2021

This is just amazing story of the rescues and so inspiring and hopeful. I had no idea the extent of it!

Jinn September 11, 2021

I did not know this either. Thanks!

toddslife September 11, 2021

nice post

Marg September 12, 2021

It’s so heartwarming how everyone pulls together and does what needs to be done to help their fellow man in a catastrophe like that. You’re right - there were heroes everywhere that day!

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