"Many of those young folks who rode in transport helicopters are, right now, thinking about their strong and skilled rescuers ."
I think this is an excellent point. The inner city children with no future but drugs, crime, poverty, and welfare have had a shining example of a different future handed to them.
Bears repeating. Their rescuers may have done more than save the physical lives of those children. They may have given them hopes for the future.